College bulletin 1927 june 10

Pacific Lutheran College Bulletin Puhlishoct hi-Illonthly 1)y Pacific Lulheran College or Parldancl, (Tacoma) Vi'aRhin!2;ton. . matter is pending

Vol. I

Application 1'0r entry as second ('Ia�s

FRIDAY JUNE, 10th

Hard, Inescapable Facts For Christians To Face

No.5

Pacific Lutheran College Needs Endowment To Live PACIFIC LUTHERAN COLLEGE IS OUR CHURCH'S GREATEST ASSET Our church on the Pacific Coast is fortunate in alrtady having all cs­ tablished school wilh a fine propert�v, with a fine record of senice in Pacific Lutheran College. The pra :\'ers, thc sacrifices, the planning of rorty years, by consecrated men an d women have paid for Pacific Luth­ eran College as it is today. The� foundation is laid by others for us. A large part of thc task is done before the burden comes to us now.

A GENERATION OF STRUGGLE SHOWS THE NEED OF ENDOWMENT It h as been a bitter struggle for ye ars to carry on the \york at Paciric Luthu<1n College. \\�hat is the essential reason? The standard and cost of education rose. The annual incollle alwavs fell short. Pacific Luth­ enlIl College had no endowment to help IlH:'et Its educational budget.

II could not lower its standard of teaching or it would h�l\'e lost its state accreditation and without accredita tion no student would have come.

It meant a ceaseless, often fruitless, struggle for additional income to Illeet the cost of high class teaching.

COMMON SENSE SHOWS THE NEED OF ENDO'VlVIENT It should have been clear to pastors and people res ponsible for the school long ago that an adequate endowment was the only solution of the problem. �o high class school is like a business paying for itself or Culling yielding an income. The tuition pays for only half the cos\. the cost lowers the standarcls and dooms the school. Tile only solution is adequate income from an endowment fund.

Such are the fads \l1 the situation which no argument can change. They mllst be met.

OTHER LUTHERAN SCHOOLS

PROVE

THE

NEED

OF

ENDO'VMENT Practicallv every olher Lulheran school in America in re­ I I was Illet by all f�lt'e (l Ihis S�lIlle problem.

Ihrough in(,reasing Iheir endowmenl funds. �() olher solulion has cIS vel been found. Ovcr 20,OOO,O()O dollars lwvc been rclisc ( l since H)1D for other Lutheran schools. \Yould Ihis 11::I\"e been done if there had been a different solulion'? Isn't Iheir experience inescapable also for us I hal we must provide adequate endowment for OlIr school if we want it 10 live?

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ALL HIGHER SCHOOLS IN AMERICA PROVE THE NEED OF ENDOWMENT This experience has nol been confined Lo Lutherans. Ev­ ery denominational school in America in recent years has been compelled to increase its endowments. Some schools failed and alreacl.v Lhe y are out of existence. In fad, many slales including the slale of \Yashinglon, require a school like Oll(S 10 have adequate endowmenls if it is to remain accredited.

Such <1re the hard compelling fads.

They lllusl he mel.

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LACK OF ENDO'VMENT IS THE REASON FOR ALL THE PROBLEMS OF OUR SCHOOL.

whol

:-;;

hllrch is concerned

with you in carrying out this decision.

Some 0/ the ablt'-'t men will be with

you to give their time aid ability to

help .I·ou, but 1 depend on ever)' pas· tor alld loyal

b

mem er

within the Pa­

cific District to do his utmost to add another great victory to

</chievt'ment."

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ADEQUATE ENDO'VMENT

ora

Church's

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WILl .. SOLVE THEM.

This is fh<' ("hoir ur our (;ongregutioll

at

Fir.

Pacific

Its leader, LUllIenil1

l

1I� w e l 'IS a goodly number College and Columbia College

of

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members,

were

students

at

Other Lutheran Groups Have Awakened and Acted The Norwegian Lutheran Church in 1!)2G mo bili ze d for its great cen­ tral schools, Luther, SI. Olaf, Concordia, Augustana.

They said it could not he done. nut Christian people pr;l�'ed and sac­ rificed and God heard their pnlyers. And the greatest \'ict or�' in the history of Ollr Church was achiC'yC'd by . <.l 'gift of nearh' three milliOIi dollars ror t hese schools. .

The Augustana Synod, smaller than our church body has given since 1!J20 to its schools oyer two l1Iillion doll,lrs and has decid<.>d on ;1Il additional lIlillion and �l 11;111' for Allgustan;l College, its Centr;ll school at Hock Island.

The United Lutheran Church since 1919 h;lS given to its colleges over nine million dollars.

II is planning to m;lke H);)O educationa l year and raise additional funds.

Th.? Missouri Synod has raised for its colleges and seminaries over six million dollars. Those schools have more than doubled t heir enrolllllen t.

The shining example of North Carolina should serve as an inspiration and encouragement for us. A small bod�r of 12,000 communi­ cants has given their school Lenoir oyer a million dollars since 1919.

The shining example of Kansas .is another inescapable proof that we can do our task and that it should be done. Ten thousand communicants since the \Var h a ve given their school Bethany a half million dollars .

This is i.l group of the Arts class.

Our school gives its students opportunities for any other school.

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Our Savior Needs Pacific Lutheran College It Was Founded for His Work \Yhen Hey. B. Harsl�ld W;lS sent to the Pacific Coast to sur­ vev the field for the establishment of a school the reason ;111(1 pLU'pose was to build up God's Kingdom in this terri­ lory. Al the dedicalion of the fil'st building the leaders of tbe church participated and the whole church rejoiced be­ cause they S�l\\' in it a great victo ry for our :\Iaster's work.

Our school was born ('rom Christian prayers, Christian planning , Chrislian sacrifices for Christ's \Vork.

It Has Been True to His Service Through all its history Pacific I... utheran College has 11ever w,wered from ils origin,d purpose. Through its faculty, its course, its spirit, its student life it has been true Lo the senice of Christ. That has been its highest and first alle­ giance. It is our Savior's school today as on the day when it was founded.

His Kingdom Comes Alone Through Schools Like Ours "Thy Kingdom Come," that is our prayer and our Savior's will. IL COIllCS ,done lhrough pre a ching and preaching is done only as from gcneration to generation promising young men are enlisled and trained for lhe ministry. For that Christi,lI1 schools are l1lainl�'lined.

Our Savior needs them for the spreading 0 r His Kingdoill.

He Expects Us Now to Save Pacific Lutheran College In the present appeal of Pacific Lutheran College our Savior is calling for our help and sacrifice. \Ye follow Him as we respond. \Ye deny Him as we are indifferent.

Qualified by training for their profession, more qualified by the fine loyalty This is the faculty of Pacific Lutheran College. which they have always brought to their work.

Our Church Needs Pacific Lutheran College To Enlist and Train Ministers and Missionaries There arc cleyen thousand pastors in the Lutheran Church in America, less than three hundred haye been trained in non- Lutheran Schools.

The Church cannot exist without ministers. Yet our own schools are the only source of sup­ ply of p�lstors.

Can our Church exist without yigorous schools? \Yill il not die without them'?

To Save the Faith of Our Youth The YOUIV>" cOl11inO" .. t1 l)eOI)lc frol11 our conoTeO"ations b b ;:-, to our school are kept loyal 10 Iheir Church. If we fail to giYe Ihem a good school, they drift to non-Christian, at times anti- Christian schools and many of them are lost to faith foreyer. Yet t hey arc our bo�< and girls. Is it righl to lei them go into temptation?

Can we afford 10 \()se them from our congregations?

To Train Leaders for Our Congregations The graduates of Pacific Lutheran College haw:' pn)\Tn an inyaltwble asset in leading the life of their local congrega­ lion. 'Yith Iheir Irained ability they haye helped the Sun­ day school, choir, �1I1d business affairs. The gift of trained, loyal leadership 10 strengthen local congregations made by Pacific Lutheran College in the past is worth many, many times the sacrifice made so far.

A Western School Alone Meets Western Needs The Eastern schools of our Church cannot meet our needs.

They are so far away that only a small percentage will go there. They are little interested in Ihe problems, spirit and needs of the Coast. A school of our own, in our midst, accessible to our youth alone will meet the need.

OUI· school chorns ha� won the unsUnled acImil·ation This is the school ("horus. of tho who have hean\ it.

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This is the debating club of our scbool. debating teams of our s(

Our Youth

Needs

Pacific Lutheran College

It Is Their Chance for a Christian Training \Ve are responsible for their faith.

Thl'Y �lre a

chclrge on our conscience from Chrisl in the critical \T,H'S of their lives. If they come to our school, lheir faith is preserved; if \liey go to others it nwy be lost.

For Many, It Is the Only Chance for a Higher Training Pacific Lutheran College has a]\\'a�'s been a good school, but it has not been a so called fashionable In fael, it costs pnrents and expensive school. hanlly more than one-half of what it costs to send youn g people to some othcr schools. This has en­ abled l1lany a parent to give their boy or girl CI high­ l'!' training, who would not han' had that chancc at other schools. It has cnabled Illany a young person to work their \\ay through our school who would nol have been able so to do at other schools.

It Understands Our Youth Que young people grow up in our homes and in our Churches. 'Yhcn the" COl1le to Pacific Luther­ an College, thc samc spirit and the same ideals which thcy learn at home and in Chureh meet them. " They are nol strangers among strange ideas, cus­ toms and hopes. They arc at home. Many a young person, a str�lIlgcr in Ollr land, has found a welcome and an opportunity to advance themselves at our school, who would never have had the courage to go to �lIlothcr school.

"Yom

graduates

ha1'e

distinguished

themsell'(:s by a scholarship far ab01'e

the average and b), an unusual faith­

f t/ lnns and earnestness .

They have also

a,' a rule given evidence of a

"c ry

high

t)'pe of Christian mallhood and woman­ houd.

T hO"e of 17l)' colleagues who are ac­

quainted with the College speak in the highest terms of praise of its work and

its faculty."

Profe,sor of

E. ].

Vickncr

the Scandina1,ian Lan­

guages at the Uniwrj'ity of Washingt on

In competition with

llOOl

other

holll a unique record.

institution"

The beginners English course

has been tho real start in

a

great opportunity [or many lire.

to get

Our Nation Needs Pacific Lutheran College It Helps Maintain the Christian Home The Christian home is the source of eyery fine yirtue and aspiration in a nation, whether it is the child \yhich there first le.arns the never for­ gotten rules of right conduct, or whether it is the man who there finds renewed courage and inspiration to undertake things worth while. Tbe Christian schools directly and indirecllv haye exerted their influence 1'01' the preserYation of t he Christian hC)JlIe. It Keeps Alive the Church The Church is the other institution which seryes as a guide and inspir­ ation for its believers to walk in the \vavs of God, and which serves as ' a lasting warning to awaken the conscience of unbelievers. \Ye believe that our country has become great, because it is a Christian nation and has heen dominated by Christian ideals. That came about through the yjgorous influence of Christian Chu rches.

Only Christian schools will keep alive the Christian Churches.

It Is the Bulwark for Righteousness l\ighieousness exallcth a nation; sin destroys it. The grtat problem of a nation does not concern its political life, its industrial and comllH:Tcial life, it concerns the ever continuing and ever varying struggle against public and private sin and corruption. Christian Colleges through Am­ erica's history have furnished the leadership belieying in righteousness. "'fhe Need of the Hour is not more Factories or Materials, not more Rail­ roads or Steamships, not more Armies and Navies, but rather more Educa­ tion based on the plain Teachings of Jesus Christ."-Rodger W. Babson.

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Physical exercise plays a large part in the development of youth.

The young people of our school have ample opportunity games and our school has been well represented in the various fields of competitive athletics.

take part in athletic

Our School Did Much On Little Founded in Pioneer Faith \\'hel1 our school was roundcd il did nol I"cccin' gre�lI wcallh 10 make its palh smooth and easy.

It was founded on faith; i t faced Ihe Il<::"cessily of scru pulous econ­ omy from the vcry bcuinninH• ;.., :-, , ' It Served the Church Twenh,,-three gradtI<ltes of PaciThis is the old Columbia Col/erie bllildinr;. nOI[ lIsed as lin Orphan fie Lutheran College are serving home when Columbia Co/l er;c (ll1d Pacijic Lutheran Academy !(;ere combined 10 jorm ['([('ijie I.lllhcraIl College our Church. Fiflecn pastors have heen trained [It our institution. l\Iany of them never thought to enter I he minisLry until they canH:' to Pacific Lutheran College.

Some of thelll, whe.D thcy came had made up their minds not to become pastors, yet our school won them to entering Ilwl profession. The service of our school to ollr Church rests nol in ho pes, it rests on splcndid achicvcmcn ts in the past.

It Served Our Youth Foul' hundred and fif'ty young people have gr�ldualed.

Twcnty five hundred in all have a t tended our school, some being able to stay only for pari of the course. Our school serYcd and helpec l thelll in the most important Ihing in lire, Iheir training or mind and heart to make the mos t of their lives.

It Ranl{s High The various deparLments of Pacific Lutheran College are accredited with the S tate of \\'ashington. Graduates of the Normal depar tlllent receive their leacher's certificate without further question.

Officials of the SUlte University bave spoken in the high­ est lerms of Ihe teaching and courses at Pacific Lutheran Coll<:"ge.

It Made Every Dollar Do Double and Triple Service II costs in the neighborhood of $300 pCI' sludent al our school for the salaries of teach­ ers and the up-k<::ep of the institu tion. It costs more than double at the \Vashington Slate l'nivcrsity. I t costs more than three times this amount at some of the large Easll'rn llnivcrsities. Our school, like o ther Lutheran schools, has been scrupulouslv . (' <'0 11 0 IIIical.

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To

Bottom:

Professor

N.

thclcftis

J. Hong, pres­

Rev. B. Har­

ident of Pac­

stad, founder

ific Lutheran

of Pacific Lu­

Academy un­

theran Co l­

til its reorg-

Iege. center:

In the Rev.

R. B ogsta d, fo r

many

the

years

3nizadon.

These

three

men are the pioneers in the

cd u c a­

pn:sidentand

tional

leader of

01-

ofour church

Col­

on the Pac­ ific Co�st.

umbia lege.

work

Now Is The Hour of Opportunity The Crisis Hour Is Reached \Ye �m,' �lt the point \\'here either our people must f�ICl' lhl' problelll �lI1d meet il b�i �l('lion, or where lhe IllOllll'nl has CO)]}C 10 gin' lip our school. .\ long continucd h�lrd struggle finally bl'collH's �l hopel ess strugglc ullless relief is in sight. That IS the case with P�lcific Lutheran College.

Our District Is Awake Pastors and pl'opl<: are beginning to understand the sitlwt,ion as tbl'Y bave never understood it before.

They �lre beginning to appreciate how much our school has Illeant for the development of our Church on the Pacific Coast. The\' are awakening to a greater sense of duly to their ( :hristian schoo l.

Our district is girding ilself for the great effort in its history.

Our Church at Large Is Awake

He", (;('{Jrt<" Henrikson Fidd'Secretary ['ueiiie Lutheran ('olL,,{!e

\Ye havc nol only thc syrnpallry, bu t the real tangible help of our Church �Jl Jarge to l1leel our problem. Thirty outstanding Illen will be with us during June and July to w ork for the endowlllenl campaign.

The Church has secured. them free lransportation not to burden our calise. It surely places us on our honor.

It Is Now or Never �ever h�IS a situation been as prollllsmg to solve our school's gre�lt problem as now. Other things are being swept into the background. It is rcceiving the attention, the deterl1lined co-operation �lt lhis lilll<.' 10 IlIake possible ,<.I great \'idory. Surely now the iron is hoI; now is lhl' time' to strike with all ollr force.

Tlw ��lItlellt.;; ami faculty advisors who are rf'sponsillie 1'01' lhe editing of the "l\1oorillf': l\'Jast," thf' Collegl' [lapel',

It's Up To You Pacific Lutheran College Belongs to You You ,Ire responsible to Christ to pn)yicie Illinislcl's to le<lch all natiol1s, \0 provide a Christian school to save the faith of our youth. Pacific Luth­ eran College. fulfills this, your duty, for �'ou, but finally you will be held responsible by Christ ,IS 10 the Illanner ,1Ilel cOInpleteness of its fulfillment.

It Has Served You \Yhether vou are an �llulllnus or former student, or whether vou are a member ()[ one of the congregations, in <l host of different '�\'cIYS too numerous to mention, you have been benefited by the service of this schoo1. In vour interest in your 10c,11 Church, in your inlcrcsl in the � home mission of our district, in your inlerest in the \velf:lre of our youth and our country, nothing �'an take ,I higher place th,lIl your school, Pacific Luther�lIl College.

You Can Feel Proud of Its Record Although its student body has ne\'(:'r been I:JI'ge, yet size has never de­ termined the st,lI1ding �lIld quality of an educ,lI ion�d institution, your school ranks high. It is honored and respected by those \vhose judg­ ment counts. It has aTecord of which neither it. nor ·vou need feci ashamed. There are Illany things ill th e Church life 011 the Coast of which you may feel justly proud. There is none which is ,I greater cau�c for justifying pride than your institution, P,lcific Lutheran College.

In This Crisis It Depends on You II is your school, which has sen'ed you. II is �lll obligation on your con­ science from your Saviour. To whol11 shall it turn in this critic,d hour, ' if not 10 you? If vou, who arc conccl'lwd and responsible arc not awake, who in Il�e wide \\'odd will be (Iw,lk e? If vou fail your duty �lI1d Illiss ' your opportunity, \\'ho in the wide world w {1I Illake lip for you'?

Yeu Have Prayed, Now Act \LlIlY prayers have risen to God for our institution; it has nceded thelll. (;0<1 h�IS hlessed and presen'ed and kept ii, but docs not c\'er�' pr,lyer to God l11ean �d the S,IIllC lime a pledge to stand by God's work'?

If wc pr,ly for God's blessing on P,I­ ciric Lutheran College, wc are not sincere unlcss wc arc ready to sacrifice ,"or t hc blessing of (;0<1. The timc for s�lcrifice is herc.

Generous sacrifices from every mem­ be r i n t h e Churches, from alumni and former students will turn our h o p e s an d prayers into glor­ ious fulfillment.