Washington and Jefferson College - Pandora Yearbook (Washington, PA)

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.Q .fn qi lb U ii I I anim' M ,V U E, , , A ,,, .tu u A IPANDORA 3111121 gmiafer S we hold this volume in our hands and turn its leaves one by pgs: :ff l one, we are thinking today, and we will be thinking tomorrow, , D and we will be thinking each tomorrow as we turn the leaves again and again, of a peculiar connection that necessarily ex- -'-' ' iss' I ists between the PANDORA and the dear old campus. It is a picture of today 3 it is also a picture of yesterday, and in a peculiarly rich way the colors and tints of the life lived here are brought back to our vision. Here is the stroke of the artist, here is the mark of the wit, or the foibles and flings of the satiristg here is praise, may be, and a bit of romance that is beautifully covered yet decidedly lucid. Here are photo- graphs and cartoons bringing before us in the silence of our chamber of meditation the face and form-maybe the strength or the weakness of those we knew so well. To those of us who have been beyond the campus for years measured in decades, or even less, the very perusal of these pages serves to bring back the forgotten incidents and memories of campus days, and thereby we are reminded of an allegiance-a duty-a privilege, that is ours be- cause we sojourned here in hours and days that no doubt we count among our happiest. 'Tis a service quite worth while, then, to spend one's strength, time, and thought in preparing this volume, and we ofer our congratulations here to the young men of 1924 who have so faithfully given us this picture. Perhaps its very presence will induce us to go down the old library shelves and bring forth again the old PANDORAS of our days and again in periods of time reune with the brothers who sat beside us when the roll was marked in the old Main Hall. Respectfully submitted, S. S. BAKER, President. Fifteen

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U Q in . . ffl E l anim' M u Y U -V' E I wi .-,, ..... - .-1 '- PAXD GRA :-nnxlmT?3 1l.lllll' 9 0 gllnrefuiirh ,Q kg' HE college, faithful to its trust, must teach men, not merely 2 how to make a living, but how to live. And this quite practi- cally, by introducing the youth to the real world as it is: as a Lf 61' place of useful toil and of boundless enjoyment, as a great 'if'! '34' opportunity, in which the rewards are gained rather by strength of character than by fortunate circumstance. The college should equip the student for a free life, that his mind may see things in true perspective and assign to them their true values. To this end, there must come a broadening of the mental horizon, an ac- quaintance with the past, both as to the histories of whole peoples and the great achievements of individual thinkers. Literature and art belong to the well-endowed mind as truly as the facts of science. The beautiful is as essential as the useful. This culture, not directly pertinent to the tasks of every day, never- theless contains the elements that make one's own life worth living, and in the illumination that it casts and the wisdom it engenders may make the lives of others fuller and the world a better place to live in. The differences between men, as practical life establishes these dif- ferences, depend on fitness for some specialized type of employment. Mis- takes are often made in choosing one's life-work, and men are born with not equal endowments. If the college can lessen these mistakes and over- come these inequalities, it will be done only by cultivating the habits of sound and careful thinking. On the other hand, to equip the student for earning a living is a task less delicate than that of inculcating culture, although in a materialistic age the pursuit of culture for its own sake must always be defended as something rated trivial by the mass of men. The truth holds, notwith- standing, that the possessor of culture has a priceless advantage not con- fined to himself alone but available for the world of humanity about him. This, as I see it, has been the constant ideal of Washington and Jef- ferson College. EDWARD MOFFAT WEYER. Qs' 1' A Sixteen