Trevecca Nazarene University - Darda Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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S3 The Trevecca College Chorus, during the current year 1943-44 under the direction of Mrs. Ruth Bennett and Miss Margaret Doggett, assistant, made many inspiring and highly en- tertaining appearances throughout the city of Nashville. These appearances were accom- panied by quartets, trios, all-girls ' chorus, solos, whistling and instrumental numbers, and special music by the Trevecca College Orchestra. The above picture was taken at First Church of the Nazarene.

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4 ' V t ill Hi hi in Iff TT IT TT HI II 111 III FIT ::i ::i i i .-I .J I A Mi t( i t i III II III 111 111 in in in in m mil On Tuesday, February 8, 1944, students, faculty, and friends of Tre- vecca assembled in the Alumni Auditorium of the McClurkan Me- morial Building for the dedication of the new building. The building was named in mem- ory of the Reverend J. O. Mc- Clurkan, the founder and first presi- dent of the college. Rev. Mc- Clurkan put intensive labor, fervency of spirit, achieving faith, and ef- fective prayer into the founding and advancement of the school. The construction of the building was begun in the Spring of 1941 and was completed at an approximate cost of fifty thousand dollars. The main auditorium, known as the Alumni Auditorium, is capable of seating comfortably one thou- sand persons. Besides the main au- ditorium, there are three offices, a library reading room and an extra stack room, and eleven classrooms. The McClurkan Memorial Build- ing has been dedicated unto God that it might serve the same high purpose for which Rev. J. O. Mc- Clurkan gave himself to establish Trevecca Nazarene College. The completion of the McClurkan Memorial Building has added greatly to the appearance of the campus. Its tall stately columns give the sur- roundings an atmosphere of southern aristocratic life.

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j„ 5t kjl Of dl FINER ARTS No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier was the ac- cented pronouncement of a Prussian mili- tarist. Past mouths have witnessed elo- quently to the tragic issuance of this philosophy. From such a conception of values men have thought it right to dis- regard truth, astute to convince by night, pious to confound by stealth, and manly to exhibit brute nature. The melancholy consequences are hatred, world chaos, and war. He who would multiply sorrow to himself and others may drink of this rank cup of false creed to its foulest dregs. By contrast, Christian thinking sees in the f iner arts a creator ' s priceless bene- faction, a token of man ' s relation to God. In accordance with this high postulate art remains to humanity a sublime medium for speaking truth, a mouthpiece for ut- tering wisdom; by this premise art is power ; after this judgment nature itself is the art of God. Greed, strife, and dissention congeal to stiff inactivity in awe of this divine cunning which man shares with deity. He who would serve God and man in truth, wisdom, piety, and power may drink deeply at the fountain of reverence for the arts.