The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-13
The Normal school.

breeds indifference just as familiarity
breeds contempt. When the collegt
was first established in Denison there
was definite aud we'll directed enthus
iasm for It's success. but IS the Years
have passed, we have become so accus
toned TO the many direct ana lGdinecj
benefits it has brought 10 our city thai
we have grown cool in our enthusiasm
and rs whole the people have no
assisted the college as tney should L
is true that an annuity has been palc
with more or less cheertulDess, but The
first ardot of our young love Tor The
college seems to have departed
Is it not true that the young people
of western Iowa are not just as anXlou;
today to find some place where they
can obtain higher and pra teal ed
ucation at nominal cost, than they were
ten years ago. 1t is true that Dhere are
fewer of such schools in western lows
now than then. but it is also true that
benson has not done all that it coulG
In the past few pears to encourage the
students, to extend the influence of the
college and to advertise its merits.
The test of real friendship for any
person or for any institution is not in
the first burst of enthusiasm. The
honey moon is perhaps the shortest
epoch IN welded life. The test comes
in sustained ard continued affection
aad care and helpfu!ness.
Denison college, up to date has fully
repaid every cent invested in it. We
can without effort count dozens OF
young people whose lives have been
made happier, more useful and more
self-sustaining as result of the loca-
ton of the college in this community.
The college has also helped in a
subtle way perhaps, to uplift the gen
eral moral and intellectual tone of our
city. The town is today much better
for the college having been here. We
know OF numbers OF good citizens who
have been brought to maketheir homes
here on account of the educational ad
vsntages offered. They are part
of our population now, and unless we
stop to think we do not realize that
the college was perhaps determining
factor in bringing them here.
There are many ways in which we
can help the college astde from fnan-
cisl contributions, we can attend its
public exercises. we can encourage
young men and women to attend, we
Gan see that our own young people get
their education as far as possible at
home and under the restraining influ-
euce of good community. Ali these
things we can do, and if we will, if the
people of Denison will but open their
eyes to the advantages of the college
and determine to WORK together in its
Interests, there is no reason why it
cannot advance at once to a position of
commanding Importance.
Denison needs an active revival
of college interest. not for next
year but for now. 1t needs to put its
shoulder to the wheel, to become &C
quainted with the college and it's stud.
ents, and TO take an interest in all that
concerns them.
Unless we do this thing the empty
college halls will some day stand as
mute reminders of Denison's failure to
make the most of its opportunities.
The Review finds no fault with the
present or the past administrations Of
Of the college.
The inherent fault, the reason why
the success is not more pronounced
rests with the people Of Denison
The college has been as nearly self.
sustaining as any large school can be
now.a days.
The free public schools, the state
institutions, and the endowed demon.
instional colleges have gotten the
people out of the habit of paying d.
rectly for the good they obtain in ed
vocational lines. They pay indirectly
either by taxation or by the enormous
contributions from the people which
makes such generosity as that of Mr..
Rockefeller possible, but they refuse
10 pay any large amount directly for
tuition.
For this reason the self.sustaining
college is rara avis, and must con-
tinue to be SO. If we wish Denison
college to retain its high reputation
and remain as permanent and bene-
&cial factor in our community, we
must he prepared to face the fact that
II must be supported with money and
effort and time and enthusiasm.
1t is only the politicians who live by
strife who are dismayed at the appear
ance of harmony in republican ranks.
FGet move on" is our advice to the
various Roosevelt reception committee
~ Is none too early to;commence adver-