Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-05-05
OBSERVE ARBOR DAY
Exercises in the Chapel and Tree
Trimming Stunts
NO CLASSES ALL DAY FRIDAY


TO the world IN general last
Friday, April Doth was Arbor Day,
but to the students of Alma College
it was college Day." 1t was SO
largely because of the untiring and
unceasing efforts of one man, Prof.
J. +. Ewing. He had been work
ing and planning for the creation
of this our new academic holiday
for some three or four years Prof.
Ewing is to be congratulated upon
the success of his idea.
The program as announced in
the columns of our last issue was
given in full. The student body
though assured that the program
would at best be an hour in length
Were in no sense dismayed, but in
stead. when the last stroke of Bob'S
gong had sounded, practically
every student was in attendance.
Never once through the entire hour
and one halfs program did interest
flag, but from "Alma Mater, Alma"
composed by P. J. Allured 'O7 now
in Princeton Seminary to "Fair
Alma on the Pine" it was sustained
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The program proper was
propos either from the standpoint
of Arbor Day or College Day. The
recitation "The College Man and
the State" rendered in creditable
manner by Mr.. Osborn reminded
us of the positions of trust and
responsibility that we as students
should are expected to fill. The
subject 81 he poets and the trees"
was humorouSly treated by Mr..
Norman Chase. The author
imagined himself to be an itmerant
seeker after knowledge-along the
line of newspaper reporter-who
interviewed such ruSticS as "Bill'
SHAKESPEARE, Jack" Dryden and
blank" Longfellow giving us their
sentiment regarding trees as they
have couched it in immortal verse.
Mr.. Ralph Won Thurn in an essay
conversation" gave a history of
American forests, contrasting the
abundance of the past with the
scarcity of the present, concluding
with the thought that the present
generation not only should but
must spare the trees.
What the college is to the stu
dent" was the subject of an address
by Mr.. Graves. He stated that the
college could not exist, that the
professors "would be out of a job"
that they would not stay for the
sake of the pay roll, that because
of this fact we owed it to our sew
eral instructors to do our best, not
because such action would be for
our best interests but because OF
the encouragement it would afford
our useful faculty.
Rev. w. E. Doty in his address
"What the college is to the COM
munity" made clear the helpful
sphere that may belong to the
Christian college in its relation to
the community, how the commun-
ity may be helped by coming in
touch with young men and women
who have high ideals and the
enthusiasm that is destined to
make some of them, at least. an
actually. He pointed out that
Alma college is doing its duty in
this regard.
The closing address "What the
community is to the college" by
Rev. Mr.. Grain drove home the !
thought that fortunate indeed is
the college that is situated as Alma !
College is. A responsive com.
munity about us, scenic beauty |
around us forming an environment
that is the most ideal for the mould |
ing of character and the shaping of
destiny.
After the close of the program
the boys under the leadership of
the various professors trimmed trees