Olivet Nazarene University - Aurora Yearbook (Bourbonnais, IL)

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Onward we march, ever onward, With footsteps steady and true; Still waving aloft our banner; The banner of white and blue. Our third battle is most over, We have met the foe and won, Vict ' ry is ours and our leader, Now whispers to each, Well done. 1 ' We take for our motto, Aim Upward , With future hopeful and bright; But the war is not yet ended, We have one more year to fight. ' Tis an individual conflict, With forces that try every brain With Latin, Science, and History, The last mountain peaks to be gained. By others the ' re being conquered, With honest effort and true; And success that is won by others Will come to the White and Blue. So hail to the Academy Juniors! Success! o ' er our pathway gleams, For we ' ll ship examinations In the glorious spring of ' 15. — A. L. W., ' 15.

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ijtstflry of rijool |v n UT nf the conviction of a common need came the desire I in an P ra ver of a few of God ' s people in the state of Il- linois for a school which would stand definitely and always for holiness of heart and life. The answer of that prayer and effort is: Illinois Holiness University. The conviction was: that the religious element is necessary to education; that religious experience and ethical culture must come in the formative stages of one ' s life; that God can have his way with man only when man ' s spiritual development is at least equal to his intellectual development; and that the beginning and develop- ing of the spiritual part must be undertaken in early life, and con- ducted from the first in a sane and safe manner, with the Bible as a text-book. To this end a small school was started in 1907, in Georgetown, Illinois, where the best means of grace with the best facilities of the school-room could be had. Later the present site of the University grounds, three miles south of Georgetown, was secured, and the Grammar School and Academic Departments were added in 1908, and carried on in a small three- room frame building. Succeeding in the aim of the school true to Bible and holiness, the trustees, in 1909, added the College of Liberal Arts, and erected that year the present large brick Girls ' Dormitory. This being inadequate for general school purposes, it became nec- essary to erect an Administration Building. This magnificent struc- ture has been highly praised by all who have seen it. [24]