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

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fidence in the Occidental machine and its workmen. However, the best machine and the best workmen obtainable need good material in order to turn out a perfect product. This has always been our greatest source of pride. Spirit is a hackneyed word but no apologies need be offered for anything so good as this must be. It was this condition more than any promise of endowment or buildings or salary that brought President Baer to his present position. But this is a critical period in Occidental's growth. The college is expanding in every direction that is good, but its ideal must not become so broad that there is no depth to it. The spirit of drifting is in the air, but one has only to go to the ocean to see what becomes of the timber that answers its call. Not because the ideal is old but because it is right is enough reason for Oc- cidental to stand true. May this college never be so great that it may not be good as well. And no student can shift the responsibility rest- ing upon himself by saying that this is an argument for a long-faced demeanor that has nothing to recommend it to anybody. We happily can say that neither the college, its Alumni or its stu- dents are guilty of any of the preceding indictments, and we who have seen Occidental come out of difficult situations in the past have un- bounded faith in its material future, its President, and its student body. Wfe are glad to report that the plans laid last year for an Alumni scholarship have been so successful that we feel sure that two will be at the disposal of the committee at the end of the year. Though the number of those who have received Occidental diplomas is less than a hundred they are each and all of them doing their full share somewhere. And not only the Alumni, but there are those special students and those who did not graduate to whom the name and fame of Occidental is just as dear. They, too, have brought credit to the name they bear. They are all scattered to the four winds of heaven in body, but united in spirit, in their love for Occidental. They extend a welcome to the fledgling of the flock, to the class of 1907, and a word of encouragement to the embryo graduates who are still experiencing the joys of college days. Profit by our mistakes, get the best out of things, be true to yourselves and our college. ,From here at home, from across the seas, and beyond the mountains, in many tongues, but in one joy- ous spirit the Alumni sends greetings to Occidental. I I 22

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Sveninr Gilman Harry Sloan Dukes, B. L., President Bessie Louise Field, B. L., Vice-Pres Ysabel Mordy, B. L., Secretary Howard Clever, B. S., Treasurer Bessie May Pope, B. A. Clarence Arthur Spaulding, B. L. Robert Glass Cleland, B, A. Vera Howard Brooke, B. A, Laura Matilda McGaugl1, B. L. Anna Montella McKee, B. A. Robert Henry Blee, B. S. Frances VVallace Gordon, B. L. 24