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

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D Q 'ni Mmrmli lb . Sl U .- 5- 'll U nv' 'IQ . , - if giifzfyf uunmxllllr-'l'll,lWf N 331 -' UR history bears a halo of excellence, refinement, and eminence, and that is an incentive for us as we face the future. Student 'y-+55 body faculty president and trustees shall constitute a united C and determined force to maintain the usefulness and merit of ,, , A . lfln ' ' X , .J - 2-A ff J ' , , 3 , . .K NJMFKQ our institution in the wor1d's work. Washington and Jefferson College is not just a group of buildings and so many acres of groundg it is an assemblage of human souls, immortal, vibrant, glowing, and growing as the ages roll. Great men have passed this way, and in passing have left for us a legacy of inestimable value. ENROLLMENT SINCE 1870 117 1870 Total College Students ................................ 1880 Total College Students 1890 Total College Students 1900 Total College Students 1910 Total College Students. 1920 Total College Students 1922 Total College Students. There have been graduated from Washington and Jefferson College, in the historic period of its existence to the present time, more than 5,000 young men, aside from those receiving baccalaureate degrees, 4,000 men have taken partial courses. A fairly accurate analysis reveals the following interesting facts in relation to these men: Cabinet Members of the United States-4. United States Senators-11. Governors of States-10. United States Congressmen-91. State Legislators-Nearly 300. Presidents of Colleges and Universities-91. Moderators of the Presbyterian General Assembly-42. Judges of State Supreme Courts-21. Judges of Federal District Courts-2. Judges of County Courts-144. Ordained Ministers of the Gospel-more than 1,800. Attorneys-at-Law-more than l,300. Doctors of Medicine-more than 700. Engineers, Teachers, Chemists, and Business Men- Approximately 2,000. Scvcrzteen

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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

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Pb 0 -'H D U nm r lm ' .iii In I , 'I I 1.1 ll DE I xN.X,. . 1: QRQ'2'MNWf4Wf1ff.f1.- Nnxnna11u1msf1'I!MQ 0 PRESIDENT SIMON STROUSE BAKER fI9ffirers uf Qshnxiziisiraiinxr mth SEIIISIYIIIIIIDI1 ADMINISTRATION .. President SIMON STROUSE BAKER, M.S. Dean and Registrar Secretary of the Faculty EDWARD MDFFAT WEYER, Ph.D. ALFRED M. DAME, A.M. General Secretary Auditor ROBERT M. MURPHY, A.B. MARGARET G. BECKER Librarian Matron of Dormitory FANNY ELLIOTT LOWES SADTE F. HEWITT Eighteen