Whitman College - Waiilatpu Yearbook (Walla Walla, WA)

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hiimsm What is lfVhitman College today? Out of what has it' grown? What does it aim to become? The answers to all three of these questions are included in that to the second, for what the college is, and what it is to be, are determined by what it has been. We have this year celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its founding, it is, then, among the oldest institutions in the Inland Empire, for the first white settlement in this section dates back hardly sixty years. It was born in the mind and heart of Cushing Eells as he stood at the Great Grave at Waiilatpu and pondered how best to build a monument that should com- memorate the ideals of Christian and patriotic service, the statesman's vision, and the martyr's sacrifice of lliarcus Whitmanr It has gathered its traditions, not by purchase nor by imaginative effort, but by the hard experiences of pioneer days, and by sharing the pains of growth of the States it aims to serve. It has set its criterion of success not at the achievement of greatness itself, just grounds and costly buildings, large endowments and many students, but rather at the' consistent direction of those Who come under its influence toward intellectual culture by its high standard of scholarship, and toward moral character by the sincerity and purity of its Christian life and teaching. A ' The Governing Board, the Faculty, and the students have been singularly free from dissensions, and there has developed in the life of the college a wholesome friend- liness which is held in dear possession by those who have felt its, charm. The courses are all arranged so as to include a general culture requirement in Philosophy, Language, Literature, and Science, together with a thorough, intensive, extended study through the four years in some one department. The library, the campus, the laboratories, and the shop are adequately though not extensively, equipped. The Conservatory offers many opportunities for hearing the best in music, and Pearsons Academy gives secondary courses of unusual excellence. So the college stands today with Christian service as its purpose, and with Quality, not Quantity as its motto, with Scholarship written ,large across its curriculum, with friendship bedded deep in its student life ,-what does the future promise us? With each year's record of successful results attained, there has come new strength and new allies, enabling the enlarging of plans and the extension of courses into fields not before covered. This growth has led in the last two years to the Greater Whitman movement, a plan to so increase the endowment as to make possible the addition of a department, or school, of Engineering and the enrichment of the work along all lines. The Board of Overseers, formed to control the educational and financial policy of the greater college Cnot universityj includes men whose leadership in the intellectual, political, and industrial life of the Northwest leaves no 1'oom to doubt the successful conclusion of their undertaking. Dean Hendrick, to whom the active prosecution of the campaign has been entrusted, reports satisfactory progress, and possibly even before this book is printed the first great step will have been completed. This will mean new and beautiful buildings, extended equipment, an increased faculty, a larger student body, -but unchanged ideals, the, same noble traditions, the same insistence upon schol- arship and character as the necessmy and sufficient basis of good education, the same emphasis upon intellectual and spiritual culture as the prime requisites for successful living, without which professional or technical education must be counted of greatly lessened value. ' Whitman College, then, in its birth and its history stands for service to the Northwest, today its banner is raised in behalf of intellectual and spiritual excellence, its future, resting on, and growing out of, its past and its present is filled with promise. W. A. BRATTON. 12