Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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i 5 1 i ftklirif Xt eg: A' i t Qing DRIVE AND DORMITORIES 05192 future sfliuhlenberg Rizv. I. C. RAUSCH. of UHLENBERG will grow. It requires no dreamer to foretell this. Ou the I contrary, those who look back to the Muhlenberg of a few years ago, and now behold the present, feel like exclaiming: Wk are like those that dreamf' The all pervasive 'KMuhlenberg Spirit, deep feeling, good judgment, earnest wishes, and general activity, now visible make the prognosis easy, for these are factors that insure a future glory even if nothing extraordinary should happen. Nor does it require exceptional powers of discernment to recognize these abstract elements of our Alma Mater's vigor, for we see them personified in a healthy student body earnestly striving to attain high ideals, in a capable and ag- gressive faculty unselfishly devoted to the highest interests of the College, in an active Board of Trustees and its Executive Committee, in a real Athletic Associa- Page Seven

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BY MOONLIGHT

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I illlllllri -gli liymggg L, 8 .1 ' Y WI' f.. u I H I 4,311 4 Xa' - f , f L ! I 1 I . . in wif i 69? -mat t-- f X fa-f I ia e . tion and its Trustees, in loyal Alumni and true friends in touch with the work, and above all in our deservedly honored and esteemed President for whom all who know him have the highest regard. It is no dream that four new halls will be added to the Dormitories this year which will then show us half the size of the Quadrangle as it will appear when completed. lVho can tell how soon the other half may be built? That will mean about four hundred students in Muhlenberg. It is likewise a certainty that the Preparatory School, which may cost about one-hundred thousand dollars, will be erected this year on the Mosser held south of the new Commons. These build- ings will necessitate the erection of a new I-Ieat, Light and Power Plant which will probably be located at the foot of the hill. This change in turn will provide more space for the chemical laboratory and with a little extra expense furnish new quarters for the physical laboratory. The Biological Department will then occupy all of the present Physical Department in the Administration Building. This arrangement will permit sufficient expansion until some good friend or friends. perhaps some alumnus, will present us with a complete MODERN SCIENCE BUILDING. A Gymnasium would adorn our grounds, no doubt, by this time, but for the untimely death of one of the best friends the boys of Muhlenberg ever had. 'XVe all feel the need of such a building, the Athletic Association has thought and planned, but thus far the decision has always been that other things were just as needful and more within the range of our resources. Some day we will decide dif- ferently and the action of the Athletic Board in that event can easily be judged by its record in the past. If one could always do as one feels and thinks, the friends of the boys would no doubt vie with one another for the privilege of erecting the Gymnasium. An Alumni I-Iall providing a social center with a large Auditorium, a I-Iun- dred Thousand Dollar Library Building, a College Chapel in keeping with the dignity of our school, sufficient Endowment to expand the Courses we now have and to add others, which we already have in mind, but may not yet mention, these and many other things may now seem fanciful, and the watch-dogs may scent ex- travaganceg but the day will surely come when nothing will be too good for old Muhlenberg and her boys, and their faithful professors, for friends and alumni will decree it. Page Eight I