Westminster College - Blue Jay Yearbook (Fulton, MO)

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The College Man in Law. The Law more than any other avocation or calling in life demands of its followers a thorough college education. The lawyer must be well fortified in all branches of human knowledge. He who desires to win fame in the legal profession should be possessed of that broad education which means broad-mindedness. No man, no matter how fine a judge of human nature he may be, no matter how much legal acumen he may acquire, can rise to the highest ideal of a successful practitioner of law without a thorough knowledge of art, literature, science, philosophy, mathematics and all the branches taught in a college. The science of law is multiform. As, Pomeroy says: lt reaches out and draws in its methods and materials from many departmentsg here it sends down a root into the undefined and almost hidden traditions of the past, and now suports itself upon the conclusions of the purest morasg its deductions are sometimes cast in themould of severest logic and again assume the form of historical narrative. It extends from the birth of a nation or race to the busy life of the present day. It demands a familiarity with history, with ethics and with logic. X1Vhatever we learn elsewhere will con- tribute its aid in our study of this comprehensive science. The more thorough our knowledge of other things, the greater the chance of success in law. Glanre over the field of lawyers and note those who have achieved honor and fame, and it will readily appear that those who have had a college education, and those alone, stand at the top. V The young man of today who wishes to take up the law as his life work and to be master in that work, should first equip himself with a thorough col- lege education such as VVestminster College affords. Vlfestminster men in the law are not surpassed by men who have received their early education at any other school. It is with pride tliat Vtfestminster can point to the lawyers, of high rank who acknowledge her as their alma mater. They stand at the head of their profession. u H It can be confidently .predicted that the young 1nan, sober and honest, equip- ped with a thorough college education, who enters the field of law, will attain a position therein commensurate with his native ability. I. W. TINCHER. T9 at,

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I 1 I I I I I I i I I Z 7 I I I I I I I I I I I'. The College Man in the Ministry. By reason of the more general training of men in other lines of employ, the ministry no longer enjoys the unique position of the learned profession, as it did a few centuries ago, when the minister was sought out whenever any matter of letters was at issue. But as the pendulum swings from one extreme to the other, so an erroneous idea, thoroughly antipodal to this, is gaining ground, that the minister need not be a college man, if he only be possessed of executive ability for the multitudinous affairs of the modern church, and be humanitarian in his philosophy. I I It will be readily admitted that college training as an end has no place in the making of a ministerg but that he is not better fitted for his work as a result of scholarly pursuits will be as readily denied. The minister of today faces questions and conditions of which his predecessors never dreamedg his re- sponsibility is in no sense lessened because he is no longer the neighborhood Oracle. The man who is most efficiently to measure up to these responsibil- ities needs as a means to an end the mental discipline of the college. He needs a mind trained for the work before him: now, whether this be attained by the routine work of the first year in Greek or Latin, whether by tracing God's hand in the philosophy of history, whether through the propositions of Euclid, the masterful reasonings of Plato, or the sublime flights of Demos- thenes, is immaterialg but from each and all these studies the college-bred man will bring to the sacred desk a habit of thought that will serve him well in his search after truth. ' Jesus sent men out to preach the Truth to men: the man sent must be able to read God's message written on the face of the heavens, to see it in the forms of nature about him, and then he must be of mind sufficiently humble to receive on evidence a Revelation through jesus Christ, regardless of his own ability thoroughly to understand it. Humanly speaking, it is the col- lege man who will most correctly translate this eternal Gospel of God's love into the language of men, and transmit it to them as a message of strength for the now, and of hope for the life that is to be! And this is the message for which the world is dying. Wliatevei' may be said,of the phenomenal success of notable men who Hnever saw the inside of a collegef' fails to take note of howthe efficiency of these same men might have been increased many fold by the privileges of a college education. The best equipped men are none too good for the great- est work ever committed to the hands of men, the ministry of God's Gospel of love! I LYNN F. Ross. if

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, The College Man in College Work. 'Westminster alumni have carried her methods, her spirit, her influence, to many another place of learning. Not only her own sons, but others thus have benehted by her lofty aims, her strong training, her steadfast adherence to that which is best and noblest in the training of young men. McAfee, the far-seeing founder of Park College, by his lofty philanthropy has brought countless blessings to thousands of fine young men and women. Hersman, whose accurate and profound learning would be an honor to any European University, not only wielded an intellectual influence of depth and power for years in Westminster, but has for the years since he left our halls followed the same high plane of instruction in other institutions. Scott, in our walls, has perpetuated and strengthened the powerful influence which high intellectual training alone can give, .till it is safe to say that no college in onr land can present it superior. Dobyns in his work for the deaf has continued the work on the same high level which has always been Westmin- ster's ideal. Vaughn and Christian are samples of that same strength, those same fine, sound methods, carried into public schools. And this would fail to tell of all the rest, Cowan, still with us, Ayres, in Lindenwood, Bradley, in Blackburn, Dyer, in St. Louis, Evans, in Texas College for VVomen, Foreman, in Hannibal, Hinitt, in Central University, jones, in Missouri State University, Mcljheeters, in Germany, Marquess, in Louisville Theological Seminary, Millar, in the City of Mexico, in a Seminary, also, Quarles, in VVashington and Lee, Reaser, in Wilsoii College for 'Womeng Travis, at Rensselaer, not to speak of some of our younger men, Collett, Brown, McChesney, McCutchan, on the foreign field, in far-away China, and many another, some not graduates, but of the same high type, everywhere and always. lt would be difhcult to measure the extent of XVestminster's influence, thus exerted. Safe to say, in no other way can her ideals be so directly per- petuated and her power so magnified, as by those of -her sons. who become themselves teachers, and develop in the men who come to them, that same character, those same ideals, those lofty principles of both education and life, which have made VVestminster's name and fame an honor to l1er sons, and a source of strength to the church which has founded, supported and still con- trolsher, for the glory of her Lord and lilllg.--:DANIEL S. iCi.XGE. 19.