Westminster College - Argo Yearbook (New Wilmington, PA)

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-I6 T1-IE -1913 ARGO either may rise to the very top in the estimation of his fellows. Liberal education, it may be said, always and everywhere is a great leveler up instead of down. 3rd. It is economical. The legitimate expenses can be met by per- sons of moderate means. President W. R. Harper, former President of Chicago University, dis-cussing The Small College, says, Only a few comparatively can gather together so largela sum as five or six hundred dol- lars a year for a course of college study, and yet such a sum in most of our large institutions, is quite small in View of the many and varied demands made on the student. There must be institutions in which the man who can command only two or three hundred dollars a year may find help and guidance in his pursuit of a higher education. To this latter class we are glad to belong, that we may furnish an education to those of moderate means who aspire to it. In spite of the increased cost of living and notwithstanding the industrious circulation of a contrary view, we now maintain the same character as our student body will show. 4th. It puts stress on thoroughness-on work well done. If an occasional idler slips through, the mass of students do honest, earnest work. We do not lay stress on education made easy. We believe, and a prevail- ing number of our students believe that the first lesson of 'education is getting down to hard work and doing it thoroughly. 5th. It seeks to educate under definitely Christian influences. It is denominational, without being narrowly sectarian. It provides for the con- stant impact of Christian truth. It has ways and views of its own. While it is neither rigid nor intolerant, it does not leave things religious at loose ends. It is distinctly and enthusiastically Christian and would have all its instruc- tion and life saturated with Christian ideals. If, as one has said, the central aim of education is the perfection of manhood and the central fact of manhood is character, we believe that the central motive of the highest character is true religion-is Christ enthroned in the heart. Under the present management we can rest assured that the future development will be along these basal lines-impartial, thorough-going, Christian, on to its greater future. Ergfffofv 11 wr' 35 lla Anjqlwm. 394 avimw lm-JU' sy ggfgill Eng: T15 sul ff: new U E' mms 1 kara :wwf ' ft E 1 ra :zip E522 sr UK 2 izrlgersvrm' 'iuZ'?!QiC as 5?-i'5Q?l?lF 2 :IIN-3. Yfj mcg rrxrwsfefaa. Kill? tru I V53 122 irq 4 'im VR Wg Et' iv ij? Q---s Zig tv -- ' Mu 9 Er- 1, J.. 1. E xr v g 'QL' -TIT.: ppc.. 3 A swf 'mmf' vfzl gl ' 1- tw- .. N' 14:1- ' 1 'X JU' gm :Z :jx Iv' QTY ah Q gif- ' 33'?Qirr- ,, mek' t. , .. It :fm A th uk M by ...Q gk A 1- its . . Have. fu, 'ii ajiqmfm Www X .., ..,. ,,,,. A.-. ...-3 ......-...---- .....i.-..4iF,.t..., . rrnawnl-YM I --I Ak , 'A -H .U-lm W rv A I 1, V A V V ' V It X , i,-V

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. Bl 3. it ul Cs- f Pas- 7 if 7522 ITB ggi mf in I WESTMINSTER COLLEGE I 5 Westminster ' Sixty years ago Westminster College was born. It would be hard to compress within the limit of a few hundred words the story of an institution that has existed for so long a time. It originated with the Associate Pres- byterian Church in 1852. This Church united with the Associate Re- formed Church in 1858, to form our United Presbyterian Church, and the College was carried with it into the new body. It was soon placed under the care of the First Synod of the West and in 1872 passed under the care of this Synod and the Synod of Pittsburg. V What was the aim of the founders of this institution? Dr. Joseph H. Pressly, of Erie, Pa., gave the charge when he became President in i872- forty years ago. His words were these-- Pausing as we now do to re- cruit our energies, and to rearrange our resources for a further effort, there comes to us a voice from the path along which We have been conducted, saying, 'Thus far the Lord has led thee on.' We would not be disobedient to the heavenly voice. We would yield ourselves to the inspiration it brings and solemnly renew our determination that what has been our aim here- tofore shall be our aim henceforth: that with the providential and gracious concurrence of Him in whose service we are engaged, we will furnish those who seek an 'education, one which will qualify them to glorify ,God and to enjoy Him forever. It is another way of saying what is expressed in a more secular way in the definition of Herbert Spencer,- The aim of educa- tion is to teach men how to live more completely, . for how can man live completely without reference to God? I ' - Among the salient features of Westminster's life, let me mention, and only mention, four or five. lst. It is co-educational. From the beginning of her history, she has admitted men and women to her classes on equal terms, and in the strife for honors it has frequently happened that, as Solomon declares, The battle is not to the strong. Dr. Scovel, former President of Wooster University, expressed a conclusion in which we can concur- The presence of the young ladies is a constant stimulus to study, to order, and to courteous bearing in all the exercises of the institution. 2nd, It is democratic. The rich and the poor meet together and recognize that the Lord is the maker of them both. Every man or woman is judged without respect of persons and stands on his or her own,merit. He who boasts of pedigree or purse looses respect and he who cannot boast of

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mi. .Qi 'fb Dr. of 5. . Wiz. fart iam imanwhq imlwfire 'Wm nigga K lim network limit 1335513 121 Irs T55 gm. 4 Wlile ncsecmi. rn mid. 'the ml fact e Eigfest zefvbm iam, WESTMINSTER' COLLEGE . . I 7 Dormitory Life It is in the dormitory that the young women of the College live, move and have their being. 1 Dormitory life may seem to beta monotonous per- formance-day after day of getting up with the rising bell and going to sleep with the light out gong--but far be it from anyone who has ever lived in a dormitory to believe that. Instead, it is more apt to be a case of piling out about ten minutes before the breakfast bell, rushing frantically out of your door, and down the stairs with most of your clothes strung over one arm and your mouth full of hairpins and sundry other articles. As for retiring with the light out gong-well, it is more likely that you gropeiyour way blindly into bed several minutes after the city lights have blinked for the last time. Of course, if you are a proper child, brought- up in that straight and narrow path,', and have had it deeply impressed on your youthful souls that it is a sin and a crime to go to school without your lessons, you have been diligently studying all this time. But, on the other hand, if you are a child fbrought up in the way you should go, and have come to College to do as you please-and ruin your stomach-you have been sitting up during this interim, with your transom properly draped with your couch cover, and your keyhole stuffed with an ancient algebra problem. What doing? Why, making fudge, or fried egg sandwiches, over your lamp if you haven't for- gotten to fill it that day: and if you have, over your very proper neighbor's lamp, who has long since been in the land of dreams. V Then, when you are very much preoccupied in trying to get one egg, fried soft, by the way, balanced on a teaspoon or a nail file tif you don't happen to have enough teaspoons to go aroundl, and when you are just on the point of Hopping it skillfully onto a slice of bread, and some inconsiderate human being pours a glass of cold water down your backs you let out an unearthly, blood-curdling scream--then it is that there comes a gentle tapping at your chamber door,,' and a voice, not so gentle it must be ad- mitted, bids you in threatening tones to be quiet and go to bed. But these are only a few of the many, many incidents which go to make up dormitory life. It is from our life in the dormitory that we derive some of the happiest and most cherished memories of our College days. And it is here also that the girls are brought together and their lives woven to- gether in such a way as they could not be by any other means. It is through these singular relations of dormitory life, too, that many of our closest and life-long friendships are formed, so that We, who have lived in a dormitory, cry out with the poet of old, Long may it live--our dormitory life. I-I F 'I4