Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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Wake Forest Cullcyr will soon occiips one of the most beautiful campuses in the South. Planned by Jens Fredrick Larson, one of the country ' s most distin- guished educational architects, the campus will provide facilities for more than 2,lllHl students. Its library will accommodate SOO, ()()() xolumes, more than 7 times the space needed by the college ' s present library. The School of Business and the School of Law will ha e spacious buildings near the beautiful University Cen- ter. Wait Chapel, whose spire rises 230 feet into the air, will play the central role both spiritually and architecturally. The potentialities of the new campus will allow for almost unlimited i;riiwlh. Wake Forest has always lieen a school dedicated to the advancement of Christian principles, progressive in its nature. This move is an e.xprcs.sion of such characteristics and prophetic of a new era of service for the college. The new campus is in keeping with college ' s !v!ffiP 5BSB83BnB!5IBT5EIiK? mm i mtii. m ' «,

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1 The infinite character of a great man is always new and refreshing. Dr. Kitchin ' s work is the dociuiicnt of his wisdom, his leadership is the symbol of his integritx, and the good he did is the imperishable fruit of his failh. Dr. Kitchin became a member of our faculty in the fall of 1917. He was an eminent teacher, a distinguished dean, and a man of rare vision and wisdom. His record became so brilliant that, in 1930, faculty, students, trustees, alumni and others drafted him into the office of president. Dr. Kitchin could have achieved success in any one of several other fields. For example, his genius as a medical diagnostician was so amazing that he could have established the n-pulalioii of : .Sir William Osier in any great medical center. Bui, willi ihr wisdom and the lUlcr unselfishness of that peerless man who, at the close of the CUvil War, went to little Washington College in Virginia, Dr. Kitchin came to Wake Forest and gave his life to Christian edu- cation. Dr. Kitchin the builder was, first of all. Dr. Kitchin the man. He was a paragon of modesty and manliness. He treated any person — old or yotuig, cla laborer or states- man, illiterate or scholar, white or ecjioiecf — with imaf- fected courtesy. He was a peacemaker, but he never hesi- tated to fight in defense of a principle. He truckled to no man, and he treated no man as his inferior. Alwa s a physician at heart, he took his consuinni.ni- skill inio am home — prominent or destitute — where hi w.is needed, and he ne er charged a dollar for his work, lie g,i c sound advice to hundreds of students and a Imsi ol otlur people for he was a wise man who kniw a lliousand things. .• nd, along uith all these fine qii,dilic-s. Dr. Kitchin was SniWtl iIh- isscnee of luunilil . ' Ilie spotlight had n j lure for him; applause held no charge. . t the outset of his administration he rclused to ha e an inauguration; and at the close of his administration, while a friend praised him Dr. Kitchin walked alone among elms and oaks and magnolias. He so completely lost himself in what he tried to do that he forgot personal fame and prestige. The innermost secret of Dr. Kitchin was his Clhristian faith. Dr. Kitchin ' s faith was refined in the crucible of ast pidbleius and experiences. He was a scientist. He reflected u|ion nuclear energy; he pondered stellar galaxies oulslniehed in timeless time and spaceless space; and he re. id the nui,ssi e pages of geology, filled with records of plants and animals. With the perceptivencss of a John Stuart Mill, he recognized nature ' s impersonal forces. He was familiar with human history, and he noted the rise and the decline of civilizations. A keen student of human nature, he was aware of selfishness and benevolence, of justice anrl injustice, of saintliness and evil. As a physician, he observed birth and death, active youth and enfeebled old age, the glow of health and the agony of illness. He kni-w religion, and, with the insight of a William James, he distinguished between form and reality. Dr. Kitchin ' s failh was no product of wishful imagination; it rested upon the deep-seated conviction of the existence of unseen, enduring truth. His laith was not a public spectacle; it was a sacred reality. For Dr. Kitchin the CUiristian way was paved with luring truths. The paving stones of that way were justice, ratitude, mercy, com- pon thcni with as- 1 irtucs kindl passion, suranee, is the foi and he |: alr.iid. H s, humilit ' , s mpathy, i and niinistr . He -,ilkr( for In- knew that bene.ilh ndalio iw clos 1 of the l(»e )n to the end •l related are 1 them Christi, oodne if God; if th( irect and tens are music too, and k(e| jng imheard in hearts that wc