Nasson College - Nugget Yearbook (Springvale, ME)

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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

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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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