Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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THE CRIMSON] flS S The Latin League r'f’M I1: Latin League of Wisconsin colleges was organized and endowed tour years | ago tor the purpose of arousing new interest in the study ot the classics; raising the standard ot excellence; and establishing a bond ot common interest between the departments of the allied colleges. The schools represented arc: Beloit. Carroll, Lawrence. Milwaukee-Downer, Milton, and Ripon. Kach year an examination, con- sisting ot passages m sight translation from the Latin authors and an exercise in Latin composition, is set at Madison hv some I niversitv determined by the directors of the I .e.igue. To the college making the highest average standing is awarded for the year a Silver cup. to the individual having the highest grade, is given a cash prize ot two hundred and fitty dollars: to second and third places respectively are assigned gold, silver and bion .c medals, contributed by Dr. Wright of Lawrence College. The school winning the cup toi three consecutive years will hold it permanently . The cup was held by Lawrence for the years I91J-14; by Ripon 191%lb. The team that won the Clip for Ripon in 191( consisted of Cora Smith '!(), Alma Hang 17. and John Frayne 17. In addition the highest individual honors were won by Miss Smith, while third place was won by Mr. Frayne. The team for the year 191? is: Alma Hang, Mathilda Mathiscn. Frances Cuiak, and John Frayne. Flu Fxamination was set in 1916 by the I’niversitv of Illinois: rhe present vear. it is to he set by the I niversitv of Iowa. LATIN (TP

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JEMS i . m i S 3)n S cmortam The saddest event of the college year was the death t Jens K Nelson, who was loved as a friend and classmate l the entire student body. Bor —Inly 20. 1889. I)iei — February 7. 1917.

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 fl91 [ THE CRIMSON I ll 8 Ripon College and ihe State University Till I rustecs and Faculty ot Ripon College arc promi to acknowledge the I ni- versity ot Wisconsin as tin- center of the educational life ami influence ot the state. To attempt imitation ot the university is absurd. Each institution, ven frankly and clearly, admits the unique place of the other. There is splendid har- mony between the institutions and a mutual understanding. Our credits are t reel} and equally exchanged. Our courses are mapped out with reference to the university experience and icquircmcnts. Several of our ptofessots have had their undergraduate or graduate work at Madison. Next tear we secure our third coach ot Athletics from Madison—the three being E. (). Stichin. II. (). Ofstic. and Harold « )lson. During the year at Ripon College the following deans heid cont'erenci with our faculty and students reviewing our situation in reference to the professional work at Madison: M. H Hacrtcl. K. L. Hatch... T. K. Turneaure Win. A. Scott.. H. S. Richards C R. Bardeen. . .....Advanced Standing ...............Agriculture Mechanics and Engineering ..................Commerce ..................... Law ................ Iedicine Through the co-operation of college and town, for the fifth tear we have had a Farmers’ Course. The college gymnasium and assembly room are used and the farmers arc making a generous and increasing response to this movement. Toi the third year next summe:. Ripon City on the college campus is placing the I niversity Chautauqua. I he President of Ripon College is on the I niversit;. Kxtension. About thirty-live former students of Ripon College are now at Madison taking their graduate or undergraduate work. Ihe leading members of faculty and administrative force in Madison speak in highest terms of the work that Ripon College is doing, and Ripon College has words onh of grateful appreciation for the help of the university in main of the common problems. The college and the university each has its unique place, and each has merits which the other does not attempt to claim. Pk sidcn't Silas Evans.