Seattle Pacific University - Tawashi Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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GREETINGS To the Students of our College: Soon after entering Seattle Pacific College every student becomes aware of at least three important factors connected with the school. One of these is the school curriculum. The various courses of study seem to be more or less rigid and constitute pre-arranged grooves in which the student must move along. The second factor is not the written law of the curriculum nor the list of required subjects in any course of study. It is, instead, the unwritten law - the traditions —of the college. Hikes, receptions, stunts, singing and many other activities are traditionally an essential part of our college. Tradition has made our Chapel a veritable Holy Place. God grant that our fine traditions shall con¬ tinue to be a constant challenge to every one for the fullest expression possible of group co-operation and individual leadership. The third factor is very different from the first two. It deals neither with formal curriculum nor yet with our fine traditions, but with that indefinable something which we describe by the word ideals. You will forget the require¬ ments in the various courses of study and will perhaps only occasionally recall the various traditional ceremonies and class activities but you will never forget nor cease to be affected by the ideals of your school. The curriculum is necesary in providing guidance for formal training; the traditions give life and interest to the months and years you spend in school; but the ideals enter into the very fabric of your being. To the graduates, especially, may I say a further word. You have complied with the requirements of the respective curricula. For this, the school has given you an official parchment stamped with the school seal. You have imbibed the spirit of the fine traditions of the school. For this, you have already been repaid in many pleasant hours of association. You have been associating with teachers and fellow students who have the highest type of Christian ideals. These same ideals have challenged you. You have, we believe, embraced them as your own. For this, far more than merely the completion of a formal course of study, does Seattle Pacific College call you her own and commission you to be her represen¬ tative wherever yo u go. She is your Alma Mater. Yours for S. P. C., C. HOYT WATSON.

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TO One who is always willing to share our joys as well as our sorrows. TO One who inspires us all by her spirit of devo tion and sacrifice. TO One who is giving her life to the cause of Christian Education, and thus is exemplifying the life of the Great Teacher. TO C. MAY MARSTON Professor of English and Foreign Languages, we, the Staff of 1928 , affectionately dedicate this Cascade.

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CHARLES HOYT WATSON President