Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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C l AkbA ROBERT C. HORN, Ph.D., Litt.D. Dean; Mosser-Keck Professor of the Creek Language and Literature Born at Charleston, South Carolina, September 12, 1881. Prepared at Charleston High School. A.B., Muhlenberg College, 1900; A.M., Muh- lenberg College, 1903; A.M., Harvard Uni- versity, 1904; Ph.D., University of Pennsyl- vania, 1926; Litt.D., Muhlenberg College, 1922. Graduate Work, Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, 1900-01; Harvard University, 1903- 04, 1907-08, 1919; Columbia University, 1923 (Summer); University of Pennsylvania, 1925-26. Professor of Greek Language and Literature, 1904; Assistant of the President, 1922-30. Dean, 1930. GEORGE T. ETTINGER, Ph D., Litt.D. Dean Emeritus; Professor of Latin Language and Literature Born at Allentown, Pennsylvania, November 8 1860. Prepared at Private School Academic Department of Muhlenberg College. A.B., Muhlenberg College, 1880; A.M., Muhlenberg College, 1883; Ph.D., New York University, 1891; Litt.D., Muhlenberg College, 1920. Principal of the Academic Department of Muhlenberg College, 1884-92. Professor of Latin and Pedagogy, 1892-1917. Professor of Latin, 1917. Dean of Muhlenberg College, 1904. Dean Emeritus, 1930. Phi Beta Kappa.

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r. I A R I A JOHN A. W. HAAS, D.D., LL.D. President; Professor of Religion and Philosophy Born at Philadelphia, Pa., August 31, 1862. Prepared at Parochial School, Zion’s Church and Protestant Episcopal Academy; A.B., University of Pennsylvania, 1884; A.M., University of Pennsylvania, 1887; B.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1887; D.D. Thiel College, 1902; LL.D., Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, 1914; LL.D., Augustana College, 1917; LL.D., Gettysburg College, 1922; Graduate Work, University of Leipsic, 1887-88; Fourth president of Muhlenberg College, 1904; Phi Beta Kappa; Member of Author ' s Club, London.

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c: I A k L A m To the Class of 1936, Greetings: You who have so successfully published this volume of the Ciarla have asked me for a message. In availing myself of this appreciated opportunity, I shall be brief. You men, who are now upper classmen and before long will be gradu- ates, do you ever feel obligations to those who have made your education possible? To whom do I refer? Yourself, your parents, the college, the church, society in general. How will you repay these? Will you repay yourself for your efforts and sacrifices and expenditure of time and money by being true to yourself, and by maintaining high ideals of manhood and nobility of character? Your obligations to your parents can best be paid in the same way. Give them reason to be proud of your achieve- ments; but your upright character and fine young manhood will give them still greater satisfaction. Your education costs more than you ever pay. Who pays the difference? It comes from gifts, from interested persons and largely from the endow- ment fund, which is made up of gifts of men and women who loved and believed in the college, and thought it worth while to give a Christian edu- cation to other people’s children. The buildings too are due to the gifts of others who believed in education. The college has tried to give you the best it could afford, with its means and resources, in training the body and the mind, the heart and the soul. Will you acknowledge the obligation and re- pay it by a living loyalty? Will you help it with your efforts and your means as far as you can, so that it may provide a still better educational oppor- tunity for the men who come after you? As the college belongs to the church, the church does much for its wel- fare and success, which means your welfare and educational equipment. The college has welcomed students of other faiths freely; and we should like each man to have the same feeling toward his church which we wish our own to feel toward the church which made this college possible. Will you acknowledge the obligation by loyalty to your church, a loyalty that shows itself in reverence and service? The right of colleges to exist at all may be traced back to elements in the structure of the society in which we live. Do you feel this obligation to society in general, to the state and nation to serve them in every possible way, to do your part in improving them, to help solve their problems, to make them better than you found them, so that the world (as far as you have contact with it) may be a better and happier place in which to live? If you will try to do these things, you will have learned the purpose and value of education; and Muhlenberg College will be proud to say of you: These are my sons. ROBERT C. HORN, Dean.