H ope C ollege Bulletin V O L U M E 56.
NO. 2
HOLL A N D . MICHIGAN
A U G U S T 1918
Issued quarterly, in February, May. August and November. The Annual Catalog ts the February number of the Bulletin. Entered as second*class matter May 19. 1915, at the post office at Holland. Michigan, under the Act of August 24. 1912
Forex\?ord t \ O the host of loyal alumni, friends, and I I I students of Hope, this number of the I I I Bulletin brings cordial greetings and good I J news of recent progress at Hope. To the young man or the young woman who has not yet become intimately acquainted with the' College, this bulletin brings an urgent invitation to learn of the exceptional advantages Hope College offers to her students.
world will have to be rebuilt, and American col lege men and women must assume a large part of the task.”
The call for service to the world comes espe cially to the Christian college. The paganism which is ignorance without love, and the intellectualism which is knowledge without love, must be confronted squarely by an education which summons its best powers to spiritualize the intel If ever there was any justification in urging lectual progress of mankind. Christian love’and the claims of higher education upon young people Christian ideals must be infused by the Christian and upon those in whose power it is to provide the college into the education of our own people and means of education, this is the time. One need the people of other lands, if we are to be saved only to examine the utterances of the men who from the perils of a sterile intellectualism. Hope are leading this nation through the perils of war, College has ever stood for this higher type of to be convinced of the tremendous importance spiritualized education. The quality and spirit placed upon the work of the college at the present of the College, its recognized ministry to the time. The army is calling for highly trained men needs of mankind, its loyal servants who have to be officers, engineers, doctors, chemists, and sacrificed the larger emoluments of other callings administrators of every kind. It encourages every for the sake of a labor of love, challenge your attempt to mobilize and develop the brain power devotion and deserve your fellowship in prayer, of the young men of the country for these serv your encouragement, your gifts, your sons and ices which demand special training. It tells us daughters. that “the training which prepares a man to fulfill The world has ever had need of institutions like T, one of these highly specialized duties, and the Hope College, and i t needs them today more than more liberal training which helps to develop the qualities of leadership needed by the officer or ad ever before. Alumni, friends, former and pros ministrator, are essential elements of military pective students— what are you doing to supply the world’s great need of a trained leadership efficiency.” thoroughly Christian in spirit? To win the war ^^is assuredly the first and fore most task with which we are all now confronted, and we. shall certainly devote every effort to the “Christian education has always yielded her accomplishment of that task. But there are other best fruit when associated with religion.”— Woodthings also to be taken into consideration. The row Wilson. war will not be won the moment peace is declared. In, the words of C. H. Thurber, “After the tumult C O L L E G E C A L E N D A R 1918-1919 and the shouting dies, . . . this war will First Quarter really be won by the nations that emerge from the conflict with the best assets in men and September 17— Examination for Admission, bewomen. And these men and women are the boys ginning at 9 a. m. ■ • , and girls now in our schools.” U. S. Commis September 18— First Quarter begins at 9 a. m sioner of Education Claxton says, “'When the war October 28, 29— Term Examinations. is over there will be made upon us such demands for men and wornen of knowledge and training" November 28— Thanksgiving Recess. as have never before come to any country. The December 10— First Quarter ends.
T K e Value of a College Education “The small Christian college is the hope of America. Character is essential to statesmanship, and these colleges are vital factors in the develop ment of sterling character.”— James J. Hill. “I believe that the American boy has a better chance for education for making a true success of his life, in a college of not more than three hun dred students.”— Elihu Root. Forty-five thousand college m e n in America are no w officers and leaders in the national army. Practically all qualified aviators are from the
colleges. That is what the' W a r thinks of college training. .
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“The difference between a large university and a small college is that in a large university the student goes through more colleges; but in the small college, more college goes through the student.”— J. I. Peters, Chief Justice of Maine.' “American achievements in the world of nations tomorrow will be the expression and the embodi ment of ideas set free in American colleges today.” — Dr. J. A. MacDonald. •
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