Rollins College - Tomokan Yearbook (Winter Park, FL)

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The Knowles Memorial apei Two good daughters in order to honor their parents ' memories and to serve this and future generations, have given a chapel to Rollins College, which, when completed, will be one of the most noble and beautiful ecclesiastical edifices in America. As Rollins has ventured to stand — and I believe with much success — for the humanizing of education, so I hope this new church will venture to stand — and with similar success — for the vitalizing of religion. Students who are at the age where they tingle with health and the love of living often think that physical activity and emotional sensations are the source of life ' s greatest satisfactions and happiness. Professors who are older, and sometimes wiser, often hold the cultivation of the mind is the sum mil m boniim of life. But the more I live, the clearer it is to me that the development of character is much more important than the cultivation of a sound mind in a sound body, vital as such cultivation is. The psychologists and physiologists tell us that we cannot change the inherent texture of our minds and bodies as we go through life. But will anyone set a limit to the growth of character? If this be true, then the Knowles Memorial Chapel should be much more than a beautiful religious symbol. It should be a living opportunity, ever stimulating us to develop our characters for the perfection of our- selves and for the service of God and our fellow men. What an inspiration for every son and daughter of Rollins! Here we have no religious denomination, no Pope, House of Bishops, or General Assembly, no State Legislature, no reactionary or radical donor, or dead hand of endowed wealth, to swerve us from any goal we would seek. The only things we have to fear are our own limitations. We can, if we will, make of our Chapel, not only a memorial to the dead, an inspiration and blessing to the living, but an ever living source of character develop- ment for ourselves and for the Rollins generations yet to come. President of Rollins College.