Nasson College - Nugget Yearbook (Springvale, ME)

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school progressed and made for itself a place in education, but two years of post-secondary education was not enough for the demands the business and professional world were making upon Nasson graduates. In 1923 a third year was added to the courses. But education has changed in the past twelve years and in January, 1935, the Trustees voted at their meet- ing to offer a four-year course, and on April 5 of the same year by an act of the Legislature of lVlaine, Nasson Institute was made Nasson College with the privilege of offering a B.S. degree to its four-year graduates. No paragraph, chapter or book can portray the hours of devotion spent inhbuilding an institution of learning, especially in New England where money does not come too easily and where ideas do not change too readily. As Maine people we are most conservativeg while we build slowly, we build sturdily and had it not been for the Executive Board of Nasson College we should never have weathered the storm of war, the reconstruction period, and the years of depression. Great honor should be given our far seeing Board of Trustees. lVlany good schools were not so fortunate in their leadership and slipped out of existence during the last few years. What of the future of Nasson? This we can only conjecture. The pathway is opening. First because of the new attitude toward learning. Curricula have changed more rapidly in the past decade than in any previous two decades in the history of American education. When such liberal art colleges as Mount Holyoke, Smith and W7ellesley put in nursery schools and certain courses in business and economics, no matter what they may claim in the way of psychological research they are realizing the need of home making and a sane knowledge of accounts for every woman. Indeed, woman's place has changed in the home. She has demonstrated her worth, not only as a bread maker but a bread winner. Secondly every school must demonstrate its excuse for existence. lf a demand for our graduates is any barometer, we are in no danger of desolation. Now for my prophecy-and this in so rapidly a changing world that any morning our newspaper may make all our preconceived ideas of gov- ernment turn topsy-turvy- Another decade should bring Nasson a library, a gymnasium, at least two new courses, development in scientific research along food lines and a hundred more students. lt will take money and wisdom to bring this about. Some man or woman will furnish the money when the necessity is driven home to them and God will furnish the wisdom. Truth lives and endures! TDAXVN NELSON VVALLACE. l I9 l

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Zzcfifo fzict Q 'cVVe came, we saw, we conqueredf' All of us who are graduating this year from Nasson College would like to be able to say this on June fourteenth with the same pride and assurance with which Caesar said, Venig vidig vici l True, we came here two and four years ago, confident freshmen to conquer the world, we came willingly or unwillingly. to get somethingf knowledge, poise, society, a position. VVe arrived with all degrees of in- experience to accumulate, as soon as possible, the spirit and dignity that would make us college students. VVhen we got here we found the faculty ready to open every door that we might seem Pathways were explored by text, lecture and lab- oratory that no part should be missed. Sometimes we looked, and some- times we looked backwards and to both sides to place ourselves, but there were times when we failed altogether to look at all. How completely and how perfectly we saw the whole held each one of us must try to answer for herself. Have we conquered? That is the question. Some have attained that for which they came, others have not, we shall, on the day men- tioned, be graduated and be given a diploma. This is proof only that we have attained the goals which the school requires and does not in it- self embody the goal which each set for herself before she came. Frank R. Stockton could not answer The Lady or the Tiger?'lg I can not answer UI-Tave we conquered?l,. But I ask you-have you not only reached your star, but have you climbed up, set your foot on it firmly and said, 4'This is mine ln? DoRo'rHY ELLEN VVEBBER, Editor. Twenty-five years is a long time to look back upon. Few, if any, of Nasson student body of 1937 had seen the light of day in 1912. But as the years of a school twenty-five years is a short time. However, a quar- ter of a century should show some results. A short paragraph can sum up our material success and T here quote from an article l wrote two years ago: Tn 1882 George Nasson, a well-to-do citizen of Springvale, died be- queathing a sum of money for the establishment at some future time of an institute for fthe moral, intellectual and physical instruction and education of young women.' In 1909 Nasson Institute was incorporated and in 1912 the school opened and two-year courses in Home Economics and Secretarial Science were offered to the young women of Maine, The f13l

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051202 Soft and low, the evening calls us From our cares, at close of day, And the deepening shadows revive As the moon comes out to play. High above, in the clouds of darkness Shine the tiny stars so clear, Telling to the World around us, Of their brightness, of their cheer. To the Weary heart is coming As the daylight fades away Rest and peace, quiet, comfort Confidence to face another day. SHIRLEY HARPE l 20 l