Occidental College - La Encina Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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-S E! LK xg? dye 4 ,A U f 1 i'l!w. 1,x a , Q-ppp. i M1, g .is N -I 'Q V W' a l ,Y Wx - sw A lil 4 Qi . 5 . . - T Q' U IQ A Q Y. v aug 4 Lllmrvrs President ...... .......,.... ' l'. Horace Cleland, '03 Vice-President ........... ...Amy l'. Gordon, 'OO Secretary and Treasurer ...Grace Webster, '06 lfVhen a college and its graduates have nothing in common, things are in a desperate condition. When an alumnus takes no interest in his Alma Mater's struggles and achievements something is radically wrong. lfVhen a college cares nothing for those who have gone before, who have given of their best when such help was at a premium, he who runs may read the handwriting on the wall. lt is not the absence of great deeds done for the college that is criminal on the part of the alumnus, but the lack of desire to do so when the opportunity offers. It is not the for- getting the former students that is a sin on the part of the college, it is the wish to do so. Those who have gone a part of the distance in any activity are prone to tell their younger fellow-travellers of the glories of the olden days. Yet we who have gone before on the college way can scarcely realize that this is the same old college which we loved and for which we worked. Though Occidental had many triumphs in the midst,of its trials in the past, it led a precarious existence for many years. For some time after the old building on Boyle Heights burned it had few friends. But with the establishinent 'of the college at Highland Park under the leadership of Dr. VVadsworth and a few faithful helpers, the future Seemed brighter. Yet many argued that a college could not compete with the already splendidly equipped Northern universities. llut there were those who had faith in the small college and realized that its work was not antagonistic to, but allied with, that of the larger institutions. To the friends of those days we owe an eternal debt of gratitude. The college has grown beyond our greatest hopes and gives promise for a magnificent future, not so much because of its prospects for mate- rial prosperity as for its promise of the ability to give a well-rounded education. A machine to turn out good products needs first of all to be sulfh- ciently equipped to do well that which it aims to do. But in addition it needs skilled workmen to control and direct it. VVe have supreme con- ' 21