Muskingum University - Muscoljuan Yearbook (New Concord, OH)

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| Bi 1904 - Beginning the Second Quarter Century - 1930 S PRESIDENT OF MUSKINGUM I find that with the passing years there is increasing happiness and satisfaction in the work it is mine to do. I find it tides that ever ebb and flow, to be submerged occasionally in the breakers, but in all events to be refreshed and stimulated by the experiences. I find increasing joy in being permitted, now and then, to share the ambitions and aspirations, of hopeful youth; to catch their vision, and occasionally to be able to help them clarify it; to note their outlook and seek to inspire them to lift their eyes to loftier heights of possible achievement; to see the far flung battle lines where unworthy forces triump now, but where victory over these only waits the coming of worthy youth, with loins girt with truth, and with their native powers multiplied by the purity of their hearts and by their passion to follow the Leader who never falters nor fails. I find increasing pleasure in contemplating the future, in watching the streams of youth flow out from this institution, streams that I believe are destined to gladden the City of God; in visualizing the future and rejoicing in the toils and trials and triumphs of those whose lives on this campus I have been privileged to see develop and unfold. I find increasing satisfaction in carrying the heavy burdens that are mine, burdens that are self imposed because of the visions I have had of a better Muskingum, with i increased facilities, with an enlarged faculty, with adequate buildings and equipment, with sufficient endowment to keep tuitions moderate, to increase scholarships and loan funds, to furnish notable lectureships, to lay all this at the feet of youth, to challenge them to avail themselves of opportunities as splendid and as adequate as those found upon the campus of any College of our grade, in the midst of an unusually beautiful adi and attractive physical environment and where there is such intellectual, moral and ga eT = , — - =— + = . 4 -- Pea peers 2 eo bees — spiritual idealism as will result in their being evolved from them the finest and best that God involved in them when He created them in His own image. I find an increasing chailenge in all this to present the claims of youth, in the ! needs of the College, to those to whom Ged has given power to get wealth, and to all =, oo wt aS = semen, | stewards of His manifold grace, whether their possessions be large or limited, in the | assurance that money invested in this institution, either in buildings or equipment, will } be transmuted into character and leadership, and that every investor will share in time | in all the work the institution does for the streams of youth that may flow in and out across the centuries, and will share in eternity in the reward of the labors of all | oy oa namo! —= — —s , — those who here caught the “vision splendid” and went forth from these halls to do and to dare for God and humanity. I find an increasing consciousness of the presence and fellowship of Him who never sets us to little tasks, who never commissions us to small enterprises, who never challenges us to unworthy adventures, but on the contrary sets us to tasks impossible for us, who commissions us to an enterprise that is world embracing in its scope, and who challenges us to an adventure with Him out into the orbit of the will of God, where real success is to be found and where in Him life’s completeness is to be achieved. As I enter upon the second quarter of a century as President of Muskingum, I call upon the editors of the Muscoljuan, the class of 1931, all whose faces shine out from these pages—faculty and students—and all who may read this book to share with me in furthering an enterprise that is worthy of the best efforts of us all. J. KNOX MONTGOMERY, President. — ,. , J