Westminster College - Argo Yearbook (New Wilmington, PA)

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T. 1 mu g w 41,41-1','fgJt f4'sJ ii'7'?vvti7'V' 417 f viii-2 jf -fii:jfi Qr 7 '- vfg 6 ,, 1: Q if ff W' If V'-of sfkih ' f'Hf,1fw.,-157' it flf Mhturettiuxt fflfhrnugh lgevsnnalttg I. A Western College recently declared: Character is the most important subject in the curriculum. It may not be beyond criticism, but expresses a high ideal. We would say the same thing. We count it the supreme thing in Education. We aim to cultivate a love for truth and righteousness, to make young men and women to be true and pure and right. We wish to be a manufactory of persons of character. Dr. Stoors, in an article on the Puritan Spirit, said: The Personal Soul in castle or in cabin, in palaces or in chains-that is the supreme thing on the planet, for which indeed the planet was builded and is maintained. When Spurgeon was talking to his students one day he said to them: ln the promotion of a style, the principal thing is the preacher-the man. What you want your address to be, that you must be yourself. ' ln every line of culture, the same thing is true, Ruskin, in his Modern Painters , says: Art is concerned with the rendering of ideals. He urges the introduction from the outset of the moral sense as the criterion of Art. So let it be in every kind of culture. Let the moral and spiritual elements be emphasized. lt has ever been to the front with us. Il. ln moulding character, the strongest influence in any school is the personal ele111.e11t. Someone says: Personal force never goes out of fashion. l. What a force is the personal influence of students on one another? Was it Tennyson who said: l am part of all that l have met . We absorb from those with whom we mingle. Who is there that did not in school have a chum-a man Friday- whose fellowship was congenial and perpetual? Could not something be said from this angle in favor of select groups or clubs, massing the infl-uence of a set of boys or girls. Men live again in minds made better by the presence of others. We are fortunate, as a college, in hav- ing such a good constituency to draw from, in gathering a large percentage of our student body from the homes of a good class of people, from Christian families. They come from communities and congregations and families where God is known and Christ is the ideal for man or woman. They bring this with them and give it in measure to the new community of which they form a part. It is good for a young person to become part of such an aggregation, to plunge into such an atmosphere. lt was a line testimonial to Gladstone, given by a Bishop of England-'fl was saved from illness and worse things by getting to know Gladstone. And ten years after he left Oxford men said: Undergraduates drank less in the 40's because Gladstone had been so courageously abstemious in the 30's . 2. Then, what a strong personal influence is exerted by a teacher in College! ls it too much to say that the very greatest influence on character comes from a teacher who is revered and loved. l wonder if the roll were called if l might not find what I have said confirmed by our own college history. My space is too limited to set forth what I know to be true about men and women of the past, not now living except in the loving thoughts of their pupils- jeffers and Mehard, Oella j. Patterson, Professors john Mitchell and S. R, Thompson, and may l not include in the list Robert lVlcWatty Russell who not long ago passed from us. l hear their praises, and those of the living as well. May their memories and influence con- tinue, and may character be always kept as the chief thing in our curriculum and the chief instrument in its achievement be-a man or woman. -ROBERT GRACEY FERGUSON. ,A ily l 0

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