Pacific University - Heart of Oak Yearbook (Forest Grove, OR)

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m III II I1 7716: 716 1 PRESIDENT ROBERT FRY CLARK has directed the course of the college for the past three years and may well be congratulated for his labors during those strenuous times, as the outlook of Pacific itU broadens with the promise of greater things. President Clark graduated from Central College andlater from Oberlin in 1902, and took another degree at Chicago in 1906. After a principalship at Washburn Academy and professorships at Colgate and Chicae g0 University, President Clark came to Pacific. Education- ally, his long suit is Economics and Sociologv though he has another in his last winters overcoat, which has become as familiar a part of the campus as the petrified stump.

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'7ij I010 sunshine, something is usually happening. A good fast game or a few laps around the track, and then a hot shower, or perhaps a swim in the tank, keep a man tin shape? Whether a basket-ball game, when the whole school hangs breathless over the rail, to watch every move on the floor below, or a social function, with dimmed lights and false ceiling of colored streamers, thereis sure- ' 1y a good time at the iigymii. There are times, however, when even the tigymh does not suffice-when space and outdoor air are re- quired. The athletic field then becomes popular, for it is known that a past record insures a game that no one can afford to miss. Relaxation and an opportunity to refresh the mind are, of course, equally important with the more strenuous activities; In 1912 the books of the college library were moved from Marsh Hall i to their new home, where now with twenty thousand bound vol- umes, and the best periodicals, there is opportunity for extensive reference study, and recreational reading-and incidentally-two itlibrary dates, a week. . .. Of all of the paths which mark the ways to and from the var- ious points of interest, the one which perhaps remains the clear- est in the memories of Pacificis old students is that one which wanders its way to a far corner of the campus, where under broad-spreading maples the tennis courts offer recreation to those possessing surplus amounts of energy. Here, too, have been held more serious games, tournaments when the school record was at stake, and here that record was upheld. J ust what is responsible for this force and spirit with which Pacific University has been so widely accredited, has been the subject of no little comment. Attempts have been made to place it in the fact that Pacific is a small college, composed of one grtoupethe entire student body, therefore resulting in a unity of in erest. Others believe that the high place which Pacific holds is due to the splendid character of the men and women who have composed her faculty and have been her leaders. Also to the in- timate contact which in a small school is possible, between student and instructor. Still others who are acquainted with the history of the in- stitution tell us that a college founded by such men and women of strength and purpose as those, who, seventy-two years ago laid the foundations of Pacific University, must necessarily, when guided by that spirit which at its beginning was so deeply instilled mtO 113, become the institution that it is. JYmete en.

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tr yuy I'LARK 4r fur :h.- past three. .33; If, h ighms duranism 'th -' l'nv:f:c' 'I' bros 9 dilated '13TI'I+-1l! Hark ,gzandtook um lnrrlm m 1 ,0-7'alshipat n', h : r n prim dehja 311.. a: 'lgftlj-ducabon' amr t l'mxh? t fu .':u! i ' become 1.1M. ePhoto by Bushnell. -Photo by Bushnell. DR. HENRY L. BATES has guided the budding Socrates of the college along the paths of Philosophical thought for many years. He was for a time in the ministry, taking a Baehelors degree in Arts and Divinity at Ober- lin. As ttprincepst of Tualatin Academy he was both successful and popular; now he is equally well liked as professor of Psycholog y and Moral Training. He also acts in the place of the presi- dent when that gentleman is not around, and is- sues excuse blanks to the class cutters. Dr. Bates is most popular as a chaperone and coffee maker for hikes and picnics. DR. MARY F. FARNHAM for twenty-five years has been Pacificts dean of women. She spent her early childhood in good old New England. She got her schooling at Mt. Holyoke and Radcliffe, finishing-it with study in England and extensive travel in Europe. The En- glish schools in British South Africa were among the first Who tried out her worth as a teacher. Pacific has had the fortune to benefit from that worth after it was clearly proven. Pure English; and Literature can have few abler exponents than the head of the department of English at Pacific. PROF. FRANK C. TAYLOR has for some years past efficiently and effectively brought the truths of the old to light in relation to the new, as head of the department of Aneient Languages. He also officiates over the local university coffers, and receives What extra cash students have to Waste paying their school bills, after their miscellaneous expenses have been tak- en out. Mr. Taylor received his degree from Nebraska, with post work at the University of California.