Western College - Multifaria Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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The Western College for Women is going to make a mighty appeal to good men and women of means all oven the land. Its endowment will become adequate. F iftecn years will not make Western rich in this respect. Indeed. I am not sure that The Western College wants to be rich in money. But two decades more will repay the struggles of the past with $I .000.000 in endowment. But what of students and studies? Let The Western ever remain a small college. My vision of it is that its ambition shall be not to secure the most students, but to do the most for them. Fifty teachers and nine students to each teacher would seem ideal. The courses of study must be kept strong, symmetrical and cultural; yet wisely and vitally practical. And yet. if this is all. my vision stops with the valley. The spirit is the vital thing. Let Western ever be demo- cratic in spirit. Let the poor girl and the wealthier one stand on equal footing. measured by and measuring up to, the tallest heights of their minds and hearts. Let Western ever keep in perfect harmony with plain living and high thinking. The Western College has a purpose. If it lives and grows as my vision sees it. it shall live and grow for the help it can render the world. Service is its motto. This thOught and not that of money or of buildings. should lire the brains and thrill the hearts of all who come to enter its halls. Here we reach and rest upon the heights. Her in- spiration is from above; but her work is real in a real world. 14

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Western's Outlook President Newman Y uvision of The Western's future? And all in six hundred words? Impossible! However. some hints even at great things are possible Within the limits of few words and small space. A skilful artist with a few strokes can outline distant mountains if you give him the chance of creating perspective by the use of a few objects in the foreground. In building a college there must be two factors: The tangible and the intangible; the visible and the invisible; the greater of these is ever the latter; but both are essential. When one thinks of this division of material, the visible things begin to take shape very rapidly before the mind's eye. The danger is that they may occupy too large a space in the range of vision. Let no one accuse me of being a materialist. These things are only to form perspective. These visible things in- clude the college plant and everything that gives it shape and being; they include friends with their money; this idea means a cultured faculty; it means a band of alumnae, loyal and enthusiastic; not least though last, it means a student body. But to have all these agd these only, would not be to build The Western College as I see it is to be. These things Western is slowly acquiring. Within ten years she will be blessed with live more buildings. They will be structures exactly in keeping with the beauty of the invisible which they will help to create. They will be: Science Hall. Gymnasium, Music Hall, Chapel and Residence Hall. And then will follow a fine Library building and an Art building. 13

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