Willamette University - Wallulah Yearbook (Salem, OR)

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' ii! l ' '. n,,,-a - ff- W 1 ii . President's Message ISTORY, which illuminates the present and predicts the future, is little more than a running biography of the race. It is men who make eventsg and anyone who would be wise is counselled to be a student of biog- raphy for thereby the lamp of experience becomes his guide. The WALLULAPI is a composite biography which covers a year of keen and vivid activity of some six hundred persons. lt is crowded with the blazing beacons of experience and even the wayfarer may feel that his journey need not be in darkness. And those who once were travellers upon this highway will have pleasure in again noting familiar landmarks and in seeing others which the years have changed. Moreover, the WALLULAH is never suspected of being dull, as many his- tories are. The very name suggests euphonious, blithesome, jubilationg and this is found throughout the book. Strachey may have consulted earlier W Al.i,L1LAHs that he might be instructed now to write revolutionary, readable, and resonant biography. Be that as it may, here is a book of record which pictorializes, sparkles, and crackles because its subjects and its editors are what they are. Probably no human activities are quite so spontaneous and sincere as those of college students. Of course, the freshmen for a month or two must consciously and painfully orient themselves. But the lungs are soon accustomed to the higher percentage of ozone and life leaps to its swifter pace with a bit more of care-free spontaneity. I suppose this is why there are colleges-to put a student into a higher gear and to give him power enough to take the hills with happy courage. All this-the process and the product-are depicted in this book. To read it is to set the blood a-tingle, though time has slowed the pulse. It is a memory, a tonic, and a calling voice. I Cate 5 f

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.A 1pL,L'l'.', 1 i r FRANK M. ERICKSON OLIVE M. DAI-IL Dean of the College of Liberal Arts EADERSI-HP is .a word much bandied about the campus. So common is it that scrutiny is needed to discover whether it carries meaning or is only an empty shell. College trained leaders once functioned through the ministry and in public affairs through the legal profession. More recently scientific research has been attracting many of the best trained graduates. Now changing conditions call for leaders in still another field. The times require men and women of high ideals who are trained in public affairs, in principles of government and commerce, and in the interrelation of the two g men and women who are qualified to help through the press and by direct personal leadership in the solution of our great public problems. For those who can qualify it is an attractive Held. --FRANK M. ERICKSON A Dean of Women iThe contribution of a college education to life is not mere knowledge of facts. Such education may be gained in many and various ways. The greater contribution is the social and spiritual confidence and poise produced by developed leadership and is gained only by the unique experience of a four years' sojourn on a college campus. Willamette, because it is a small college, offers the opportunity to gain this confidence to an unusual degree for, with its student body of five hundred, every type of extra-curricular activity is carried on that is on larger campi with their several times larger student bodies. This gives each individual a responsibility and an opportunity to develop the latent powers of leader- ship, religious, social, and educational, which is within him. Because social groups are small, each student becomes conspicuous and is forced to learn and employ confidence and poise. -OL1vE M. DAHL lb