The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-06-09
BETHANY COLLEGE CELEBRATES
75THANNUAL CONNIE NCENENT

800 offered by his agency for the
best essay on Insurance and Its
Effect on Thrift" has been won by
Stanley r. Crowford. aged Is. OF
Steubenyille. freshman OF Bethany.
Young CrowfOrd was called from the
audience and given the check.
President Cramblet stated that Mr..
Cochran had donated another 81 900
Tor the Institution and that during the
past year scores OF smaller contribu-
lions had been received in assisting
Old Bethany TO retain her place in
the front rank" lie said that the
I institution was able TO meet all obliga-
tons now. lie extended his thanks
TO the people who had made II pos
slble 10 erect the new Christian church
( al Bethany and the construction OF
the new gymnasium will be Commens.
cd at once. other extensive improve
ments and cXtentions will be- made TO
various buildings before the opening
OF the fall term.
Or. Davidson Speaks.
DR.. William NJ Davidson. formerly
head OF the Washington. ID. C.. schools
ana now superintendent of PITTS burgh
schools. delivered masterful and
rather lengthy address. He divided his
address into three subdivisions /.
know Something DO Something
i and BE Something He DECLARED
that 10 know much and 10 be- unable
10 use the knowledge was useless !.
mat one must first acquire knowledge
and then apply ~. lie impressed upon
I the graduates that the reputation OF
any Institution OF learning is not based
upon how many graduates II turns
out but what the graduates do TO the
credit OF the school IN after life. that
/ that alone reflects good or bad upon
! the institution. 1T Is not a quest ion
Of what you know but what YOU can
do II the one question that is asked
by the world. BE something in life
and have self confidence. and let us
each be for all and all for each"
Salutatory Address.
JOY Fraser Taylor. ~ Bethany W. Va
delivered the salutatory address as fol-
rive and seventy winters have seat
I tered their boar DER field and meadow
NV" ana seventy summers have caliC
| forth the budding promise OF new life.
since that lHN w hon the friends AMI proc
motors Of higher learning were first
Wrlcom'u To- the halls Of old BtthaT
t"w the hearts OF those pioneers mus;
I nave sW'll'd with hopes they
glimpscd through the years. these door s
always ilung wide 60 eager students of
, NE How fired with hopes and plans
| iyr the future they must have been. And
on. now sweet must have sounded those
! first words OF Salutation 60 those who
had SUI Tered mucn that Bethany might
come into existence. Who should say
that tD them was NOT given "A vision ~
the spirit OF service. which was TO char
actgflzr the sons Of Bethany
Friends Dc g. ms duty TO welcome YOU
ana now gladly would I assume tina.
l duty, but 1 cannot. may only voice
Z IN "A Bile way. the welcome bethany
herself Is extending Co YOU.
To YOU. our parents. To- all who by
ceasel'Ss and unscmittinE sacritic, hove
Z made 90 possible for MS TO De here for
four precious years-to you is thie
greeting u Is our prayer that you mag
comprehend what your sacrifice haz
meant Co us ana what NC hope o. may
| mean Co the world
Ito tho old students and the alumni
We need scarcely speak You have heard
( tho voices and fel- tho spirit You. as
We. have heard the call uf service and
| with hearts torn az leaving a spot s.,
/ yourselves "A peculiar and precious wei.
4 come upon your return. Bethany Us
1 proud ~ you. her sons and her daurh.
! i'r~ and 70 is welcome frauEht with
4 tender memories. she extends 20 YOU.
/ And you. beloved trustees. you most
/ ~ an must ondeavor % realize that 81
J is beyond the power Of human cNrrsz
/ SION 20 f'll Nuu all that Isl m our hearts
q 'nur'ru.r- YOU ~ the new Bethany of
/ these classic halls. these added facill
J TICS for life preparation. n these beauti
, ful surroundings and these earnest an.
/ Eluw INK faces about you. can not tel
! you the tale OF gratitude. then neither
can We.
! "spirits OF those who have wrough,
Z within fh's. balls. memories or thos,
] VII" nave gone ON tu "a greater life of
, service. spirit OF the present. the pa 81
] with u- loo extending f0 ali "a welcome {,
the - many Hi promise and ~ hope"
"Egotism OF American People"
] tn" Lg"ti-m ~ tho American Poo
] TID. was the subject of an inter,stiu.
adde's ur Miss Elizabeth Msriu.fh.I
MORAN ~ Bethany W. Va. who spok,
we have come 90 be tho mos, ego
/ tl@ii'a. nation iu tho world. The ego
u~m displayed hy Germany is far los,
I rorilou1 than The spirit or sslf-satI-fac
uou which loyal citizens - AmcrIr-
feel Tho danger o. our ssIf-csnt.r.l
! u''nf'dn're which leads us Co. fec
( mat We ARE The grruts-f. not only u
This OK but ~ all preceding decades
los appalling
What BE- the remsdy2 what can W.
DO 90 reverse the downward trend o
our intellectual prowcss az nation.
/ ne remedy lies in us. We college stu
usnfe must furnish the brake which
clamps 'rh'lr ga The already rapidly
moving wheels which bear us towards
stat" ~ mental peud.ury-u c0udI
y. Jon ~ hopeless and helpless suscepfI
b'Ify 20 opinions not our own
] And this Jack ~ deep thought &C. VII,
I ihr results or college life have been oi
The whole So unsatisfactory. Somehow
d.. failed to turn our breadth o.
hr''dth "f thinking more thought ",
need on honest acknowl"dge ~ ID.
great principle that uuderlia human
Thought and action.
net ua FIRST question. fhen Prov
every Theory given aa hr our fraf-fir
tors. Let us 90 our own thinking 10
uH not make our aim solely The asrurru
b lrflnu OF know ledge but rather tho Gull
ovation ~ intellectual powers which
j Wu may desire"
Protests and Preparation"
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er"s" on Protests ana rrepsrr'Iou." Do
rtiI Peace af aur price" .a re- suuhanI
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deal THsf HH'I up fHrI- bands boo hor