Southern Nazarene University - Arrow Yearbook (Bethany, OK)

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Editors’s note: No way can academic life be di- vided naturally into divisions. One doesn’t study just natural science, or just English, or just French horn. But a liberal education pro- vides a broad background in all. And if it is a very good education, there is a correlation be- tween fields, a natural flow to knowledge, a blending together, a whole. So although for clarity, the copy is written by academic divisions, the pictures are an attempt to portray the oneness of learning. Thus there are science pictures on the education layout, band pictures on the religion page, and vice versa. Also the careful observer might note, that some divisions are more completely covered than others. This was not an attempt to highlight some departments to the exclu- sion of others, but horns and microscopes make more interesting pictures than books and pencils. 27

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Suppose it were perfectly certain that || | the life and fortune of every one of us would, one day or other, depend upon his winning or losing a game of chess. Don’t you think that we should all consider it to be a primary duty to learn at least the names and the moves of the pieces? Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth, that the life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of us being one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays well, the highest stakes are paid, with that sort of overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength. And one who plays ill is checkmated - without haste, but with- out remorse. My metaphor will remind some of you of the famous picture in which Retzsch has depicted Satan playing at Chess with man for his soul. Substitute for the mocking fiend in that picture a calm, strong angel who is playing for love, as we say, and would rather lose than win - and I should accept it as an image of human life. Well, what I mean by Education is learning the rules of this mighty game. In other words, education is the instruc- tion of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name | include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws. For me education means neither more nor less than this. PSS FSI ED VY FE Th ne hin Thomas Henry Huxley from A Liberal Education 26

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The Purpose - - to learn “Bethany Nazarene College, an institution to promote Christian education” Students ... books... classes... a million dollar science hall a library addition Finals ... all-nighters... We learn, yet it’s not practical, applicable. A detached array of facts Theories, hypothetical projections The LIMBO of Academia.