Muskingum University - Muscoljuan Yearbook (New Concord, OH)

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1837-1931 Che Product 1907-1932 For ninety-four years Muskingum has functioned as an educational in- stitution. For twenty-five years the Muscoljuan has appeared to feature the college lite and achievements. A few years ago a book was published with the title—‘‘College! What’s the Use?” Well, perhaps a college would not be of much use to some people. Perhaps some colleges would be worse than useless for some people. Doubt less there are multitudes who should never go to College. 3ut no one can read the roster of the young men and women who have attended Muskingum College during the ninety-four years of its hstory, note their character and study their achievements, and then sneeringly ask— “What's the Use’? No one can look through the twenty-five volumes of the Muscoljuan, covering but a little more than one-fourth of these ninety- four years without seeing the names and faces of those whose contributions to the world will fully justify the founding and fostering of a college for ninety-four years. Periodically there appears a volume with the title— Which College?” The answer to that question does not depend simply on the things that are seen-—buildings, equipment, courses offered, size and training of faculty, etc. These are all of value and essential, therefore much to be desired. But the intangible assets must be considered and reckoned with. A college may be rich in material things and yet poor in the things of the spirit. It may enable a student to answer a thousand and one interesting and important questions, and yet utterly fail to enable him to answer the questions that give the wisest direction to his life and that lead him to make such life investments as will impress the ages. Across the years Muskingum college has sought to impress her students with the fact—“That you are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget your errand.” Muskingum has sought to assist her students answer such questions as—“Who am I? Whence am I? Why am Ls Whither am I bound? What matters it to others that I live?, ete. Muskingum’s ideal for her students has ever been a trained mind, and ever widening horison, a disciplined will, an intelligent judgment, an abiding faith, a humble spirit, a lofty aim, a worthy ambition, an altruistic purpose, a noble Christian character—the whole man trained for efficient leadership. How to sense the true gold of life—the genuine values glit- among the tering counterfits? How to release power where it will count for most for time and for eternity? These are the real questions. The college that helps youth answer them is the college of greatest worth. The glory of Muskingum is her Product, her sons and daughters who have found themselves here, who have been helped to answer life’s great questions and who have invested their lives for the good of men and for the glory of God. —J. KNOX MONTGOMERY, President ecto

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