Westminster College - Argo Yearbook (New Wilmington, PA)

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Retrospect and Appreciation Tliat must nuMiiorahle ikwuk ' in tlu ' hislorx ' (if education, bcginnini in lhal WAV in which the I nitcd StalcN cnlcrcd the World W ar. has been an era v ithin whic ' n the problems ol administerin.n college education were not onl aidiious. but complex aiul lu,i;iti c. Lookin.i; backwaiil o er these ten ears. the l- ' resident ol ' Westminster desires to inscribe it here on the imperishable pages of I IlL: ARC ' iO that unfaltering lo alt and courageous co-operation generously and con- tinuoLish accortled him b the student boi.l ' ol the college have been the emichmenl ol his own experience, aiitl the liberation ol those resources of co-operation so much to be desired I rom all the sons and daughters of . lma .Mater. Duiing none ol thi ' ears ol this decade has the present student bocK ' been surjiassed in this inspiring co-operation. 1 he wonderlul manner in which the student contribLilion to the l)iamond Jubilee i imd was concen ed and pul into efTecl immediately became the banner with w hich all tile irieiuls oi the (College are being led into loltier conception of lo - all and bene olence. 10 k)i(nc the best which has been thought and saicl. — .Matthew . rnold ' s line phrase concerning education, is certainb ' good: but in the (|ualit ol our strixing. as doethe said, realh lies the fate of ci ili .a- lion. and to be eng.iged in actions and achie ements which prompt those who behold them to a prolounder ihinking and a more beautiful utter- ance, is ci ' ilainlx far better. W e must not jorgel that behind all the great literature and grial art of the past there la a background of great z. ' ork achieved b ' the nation or race amid which the poets and artists were born. Twoil y-four

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Faculty I ' hc l-acultv of W L ' stininslcr max . pci liaps. he i i cn the credit abu e all el e lor attainiii, ; tor the colle.s e the hii;h eholastic staiulin. w hich it now holds. 1-A|uipment, to he Mire, has been deterioratini rather than impro ' in!4 durnii; the past tew ears, and hacl it not been lor the con- tiiuietl achie emenls ot t ' acult members, the collet e itself would no doLibt iia e sLillered. llowe er. a ,i;reatl increased student roll goes to show thai the institution has not gone bacl warLl. but has indeed pro- giessetl Lles[)ile the obxioLis need tor buildings aixi equipment. The long continued practice ol estminster in allow ing the sabbati- cal ear tor advanced training and research has enabled man ' ol the lacultN members lo gain additional honors and to keep abreast ot the times. Berl l:dw in (Juick. Ph. 1).. Protessor of Biolog . has been absent tluring the last ear tra eling m Porto Rico and will resume his work next ear. .Miss .Mai Idi abeth Stewart, , . supplemented iter previous foreign sUid with a half ear ' s stud at the Sorbonne. Prance, during the spring and summer t)f P)2r James . . Swindler, Ph. 1)., Registrar of the Cj)llege and Professor of l h sics, obtained his Ph, 1). degree at hutiana L ni ersity during the ear of P)2r , large percentage ot the tacult members lia e earned their [- h, 1). degrees, and several are members of Phi Beta ! appa, . mong those tacullv members which are especialh rexered tor long and dexoted ser- ice to the college, are Dean (diaries Preeman, and Profess{)r John . . Sholt. who ha e spent llie best ears of their li es in Westminster ' s ser ice. Thev lia e not onh grown wUli llie college, but ha e helpei.i the college to grow. h Is probable that wilhin tlie next lew ears man ' new names will be added lo the lis| ol lacull members, but to students now in college the names .ind laces of ihosc w lio appear m the next few pages are the er W(. ' a e and labric of W esimiiisier lierself. ' i ' w flit -Nl