Presbyterian College - Pac Sac Yearbook (Clinton, SC)

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«« V5I I« II}, V X XX 1 XI Davidson McDowell Douglas B.A., M.A.. D.D., LL.D. It is pleasant for us to review the fifteen years of service which Davidson McDowell Douglas has contributed to the growth, morally and materially, of Presbyterian College. A few months ago, we bade him farewell who had been father, brother, and friend to the many hundreds of students who have spent a few moments in Clinton for rest and preparation before renewing their jour- neys on the tracks of time. The great sculptors of Ancient Greece gave youthful energies and talents so as to mold a piece of stone that it might bear their message to the world after their own bones had crumbled into chalk. This kindly Christian spirit has turned his chisel upon immortal souls, dispatching them into the hungry vortex of life, carrying good-cheer, common sense, and sane judgment. For a decade and a half, he labored amongst us and left the imprint of his hands upon our campus. Buildings have sprung up, the offsprings of his fore- sight and ambition. Students have been attracted in large numbers by his per- sonality. Scholars have been glad to act as teachers under his congenial lead- ership. He worked, he prayed, he hoped. And out of the horizon, veiling the future like a curtain, came The P. C. of to-day, from the small beginnings which had been made when Dr. Douglas took up his work here in 1911. Kecognized as the premier college president of the state of South Carolina, this gentleman and scholar received the call to become the head of the State ' s university. He saw a vision of greater service, and accepted the new position. Our best wishes went with him when he left us last winter. It is vain as well as useless for us to express in words our appreciation of his services. He placed Presbyterian College on the educational map of the South. Its growing reputation is a beacon light to young students who wish the best type of advanced training. The institution is one of which the alumni are proud, an institution which has given memories which furnish the cooling shade for the discouraging moments of later life. Much of these benefits come from the hand of Davidson Douglas. Farewell, Dr. Douglas. We have seen you for the last time on our chapel platform. You left with us pictures that time could not erase. We see you at the head of a great university, lifting it to achieve greater heights, rising con- fident in success, undaunted by defeat. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm. Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Twenty-Five