Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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Tl-lE PRESIDEINITS MESSAGE To the Editor ol the Ciarla: T isn't necessary for me to tell you that this year has been a very interesting one for the President of the college. l hope it has had its memorable mo- ments for others as well. lt is an important job you hold,-that of recording in attractive permanent form real life as it is lived at Muhlenberg. You will pardon my personal hope and belief that your book will record a period that I shall look back upon in years to come with great pleasure and happiness. It seems to me that what we need in the world today is a determination to look ahead,-to keep our chin up and our eyes front. What we see if we look backward is not, at present, a very encouraging sight. Confusion, de- spondency, greed, corruption, fear, hatred are all ugly words, yet they are used to characterize the period through which we have just passed and out of which, please God, we hope soon to emerge. On campuses like this beauti- ful one of ours must be generated the spirit that will define practically ade- quate substitutes for descriptive terms now in such common use. Let us develop our life at Muhlenberg so that we can understand fully and use con- fidently such words as faith, serenity, honesty, power, order, charity, confi- dence, truth. You have had the privilege of recording another year's work in a con- certed attempt to establish that sort of spirit for Muhlenberg men in the making. l hope we can continue as happily with increasing success for many generations to come. LEVERINC- TYSON. President

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THE PRESIDENT! LEVERING TYSON, A.lVl., Litt.D., LL.D. President President's Home, College Campus Born at Reading, Pennsylvania, April 9, l889. Prepared at Reading High School, l906g A.B. Gettysburg College, 19103 A.M. Columbia University, l9l l 5 Graduate Work, Columbia University, l9lO-143 Litt.D. Gettysburg Col- lege, l93Og LL.D. Lehigh University, l937. Author of the following books: Education Tunes ln, What to Read About Radio, Where is American Radio Heading? Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Kappa.

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THE DEANS' MESSAGES Greetings to Students: UHLENBERG College recommends seri- ous-minded students, who cultivate good habits of study and develop a love of study. Application, concentration, persistence, faithfulness, and responsibility are qualities well worth cultivating. A student has a social obligation also, and the social virtues need development. The student must learn to live with others and to contribute something to the general welfare. Economic and social problems are confronting us at every turng the students should become familiar with these and if possible learn how to solve them. More than ever today the world needs men who can solve its problems. Nor do we neglect the body, for the develop- ment and maintenance of a sound body is indis- pensable for the working of the active mind. Health education is of all importance, and a well developed program of sports for everybody is attractive. The higher values of living also are stressed. Good and useful living is the ideal. High ideals of truthfulness, sincerity, and honor are incul- cated. We are a Christian institution, we believe in Christianity, and we lay stress upon the study of the Bible and the ethics of Jesus Christ. We want to develop scholars and students: helpful and efficientg willing to serve, imbued with high principles and ideals, men who are Christians and gentlemen. ROBERT C. HORN, 'OO Dean ' Sixty Years Alter N the fall of l876 the last Freshman Class at Muhlenberg College to be greeted by the first President of the College, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, included a boy of fifteen who had already had three years of daily contact with the old building at Fourth and Walnut streets as a student in the preparatory department. From that day to my retirement a year ago, my life has been spent in and about Muhlenberg College, as stu- dent and teacher in both preparatory school and college. Ten years after my matriculation, Alfred Tennyson wrote Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, and so today, Sixty Years After, l recall the stately dignity of Dr. Muhlenberg, the fer- vent and spontaneous chapel prayers of President Benjamin Sadtler, the expository brilliance of Matthias Richards in what George Birkbeck Hill has called the shining fields of English Litera- ture, the precise mathematical mind of Davis Garber, the classical scholarship of Theodore L. Seip, the saintly piety and kindly mien of Wil- liam Wackernagel, and the long and loyal service to Church and College of John A. Bauman. But memory brings not only the men, but their messages: the culture of those courses which one wanted, with the values of the courses which could not be avoided, for the educational here- sies of young Charles Eliot up at Harvard had not yet permeated the Lehigh Valley. Today, then, l can wish for my Muhlenberg friends of this generation no happier life, no richer reward, than the days l have enjoyed with those men of yesteryear and with Dr. Haas, Dr. Mueller, Professor Fasig and my other colleagues who are with you now. Vivat, Crescat, Floreat Collegium Muhlen- bergiensel GEORGE T. ETTINGER, '80 Dean Emeritus