Western College - Multifaria Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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f ' 3 I I. l i i E i U , 1 A third ideal, emphasized from the first, is that of sound and is thorough scholarship. The best textbooks of the time .Were used, the best available teachers Were secured, supplementary lectures by eminent men Were given, library and apparatus Were 'in constant N use, and thoroughness was the prevailing' characteristic of the class- room. On such a broad and solid foundation as this, the building of a permanent superstructure Was made easy. MO1'6OVC1' it Was inevitable that the best ideas in modern scholarship should be adopted. There Was, from the very first, the determination not to do more than could be done Well, not to claim anything that could T T not be honestly realized, and this, together With an ambition for growth and development has made possible the curriculum of today. . The VVestern, like Mt. Holyoke, was a college in spirit, aims, and methods long before the title of Seminary Was changed to that of l College. ' e ' . Side by side With these ideals, of Christian education and T service, of thorough intellectual equipment, is a fourth ideal, the I A ideal of a true democracy. It also is an inherited virtue that suc- ii ceeding classes are proud to perpetuate. There are here uno' hard A ,E- vertical nor horizontal distinctions that separate into estranged 1 groups, but a large feeling of mutuality and interdependence, a common community ideal and spirit, a VVestern Way. r T . Ei lfi?fTf'tlF!?m... 5 i g 5 i. ,E 8 . A. ., '

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Che western wav I'1ad1t1on 1S not h1sto1y but the1e 1S a close 1elat1on between the two and the part of trad1t1on 1n shap1ng the 1deals or ways of an 1nst1tut1on l1ke The WCSt61H College 1S by no means an 1ns1g mficant one The1e IS as one of Western s daughters has well sa1d a sometlnng about eve1y school an unw11tten someth1ng wh1ch IS handed dovvn from class to class and f1om generatlon to 061161 at1on whlch glves cha1acte1 to a place In one school 1t may be an atmos phele of study and h1gh schola1sh1p In anothe1 school lt may be a Splflt of physlcal culture and a g'lO11f31I1g' of athletlcs In stlll another the consc1ence may be g1ven the ch1ef place and everythlng be made to y1eld to a mo1 al and sp111tual cultu1e I'he founde1s of thlg college 1ts first Pr1nc1pal MISS Helen Peabody and those assoclated w1th he1 1n the faculty were deeplS 1mbued Wlth the educat1onal 1deal of BIa1y Lyon the true hlgher educatlon whlch has God and fa1th and duty 1n It wh1ch placed the B1ble H1 st always both as textbook and sp111tual gulde vw uch em ph3S1ZCd the bu1ld1ng of Chr1st1an character and 1ncluded 1n lt tra1n1ng for the se1v1ce of God In the corner stone of the ma1n bu1ld1ng Helen Peabody Hall these words 1n a modlfied form are to be found The Western College Chrlst hlmself the chlef corner stone It has nothlng 1n the UHIVCTSC to fear but that lt may not know 1ts dutv O1 may fa1l to do It 'Ihe 1deal then of an educa t1on unde1 d1st1nct1ve Chr1st1an mfluences has been from the be 0'1nn1ng a Weste1n 1deal ASSOC13t6d w1th such an 1deal the1e IS bound to be another namely the m1ss1ona1y 1deal O1 the 1deal of sertlce No otl1er 1n st1tut1on has a noble1 1ecord than ou1s 1n m1ss1onary work at home and ab1oa,d MIS Calvm BIICC a g1aduate of The Western 1n the class of 66 lately a most efHc1ent 1nembe1 of the Board of T1us tees and a most generous benefacto1 of the college W1Ot6 1I1 1887 D1 Blltchell can t111thfully say the I aos 1S as open to Chrrstlan teachlng as New Y O1 k because hiss Peabod5 s 1n1ss1ona1y sp1r1t has sent out the 110'ht lund of teachels The S611111131 y th1s was wrltten before the change of na1ne had been madej is Christ's, andthe teach- ing done there cannot fail to send teachers into all the world to preach the everlasting gospel of loveg and if it is perverted, or con- verted to another use, it will not prosper. - Q 7 1 1 1 1 1 , , 1 Q. 1 I ' ' 3 I I I D I 'I 3 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 A. 1 ' 3 3- I I , I' 'I 1 I , , 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - ' ' 3 3 I I I 7 1 1 D 3' O I I 1 A 1 1 - 1 , . I I I I 'I 'I 'I ' 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 K U 0 . , - , 1 r. 1 I I I Iv I 3 3 1 I 1 ,1 ' I 0 V 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' 'K 3 ' 3 1 1 i 1 T v 3 ' 3 U I I I I . ' i-1-1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 O I I 'O ' VI I t 3 3 3 ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 s ' K A 9 1 1 1 1 ,, V 1 - . u -p 1 1 1 1 C 3 ' V ' 3 A cc 1 1 1 I . 'I I . 1 . - , 1 . ' r V 1 1 1 V1 ' H I 1 1 1 1 ,, -1 1 1 A - 11 I I' I I U U I I , U -1 1 1 1 v , E 3 ' . 1 1 1 1 1 ,. 3' 1 1 1 1 1 -,- 1 1 1 7' , . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 . 1. 11 I 1 1 . , C63 33 ' . 7' 1 1 - 9 1 1 v 1 1 1 CD 3 . ' cc ' ' , c - - - 1 . , J Y 1 i 1 r, I ', , 1 , , . 1. v. 1 , . -, . . , C 1 7

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Board of CYIISIQQS Rev. Charles Little, D.D.. .. Robert S. Fulton, A.lNI sua.. Richard P. Ernst ........ Wabash, Indiana . Cincinnati, . Cincinnati nio nio S. H. Carr. ....... ...Dayton, hio J. S. Crowell .... Springfield hio Thomas Elder .............. . . .Dayton, Ohio Irving Drew ................. ..... P ortsmouth Ohio llirs. Susan Ballard Richardson. . . . . . .Indianapolis, Indiana Rev. Robert Watson, Ph.D. .... ..... C incinnati, Ohio 5'eGeorge Lilly. .............. .... A nderson, 'Indiana Charles P. Taft .......... . ....... Cincinnati, Ohio BIrs. Leila McKee VVelsh. . . . . .'.Kansas City, Missou1'i OFFICERS J. S. Crowell .............. ....... - .President Robert S. Fulton, A. INI. ....... ...Vice-President Nlrs. Susan Ballard Richardson .... ..... S ecretary S. Carr, ........... n ................... .... T reasurer I EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE S. H. Carr J. S. Crowell Thomas Elder I Irving Drew , Robert S. Fulton INVESTMENT COMNIITTEE - S. H. Carr .I. S. Crowell 9'6Died Dec. 5, 1913. Thomas Elder 9