The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1920-10-28


everyone who will come to Berea
may come, to find in VISIONS house
room, a table set with food con-
venient for him. And wisdom will
encourage him to pass from her
outer courts 20 the inner courts, yes,
to the throne room itself, as he may
be ready.
Does man come for n term
We shall rejoice in his staying so
long, and shall encourage him to stay
longer. To use President Frost's
familiar figure: We shall set before
him goals Of easy attainment, yet
ever and again shall reveal to him
the far-off, flying goal Of a liberal
education.
This aspect Of our task is not, and
never has been, easy. An over-em-
phasis upon the short courses may
lead a student to contentment with
mediocrity. Again, all those who
have attempted to bring into one fell
lowship Of intellectual endeavor stu
dents taking short courses and stu
dents taking long courses, have real
lied the tendency Of the one type Of
work to drive out the other. The
difficulty of our task may challenge
JUS, but dare not defeat us. OF
course. our very welcome is inevita-
bly, a winnowing fan. The student
who wishes TO be exclusive-and the
word exclusive" has been voted to
be the most detestable word in the
Anglo-Saxon tongue - the student
who wishes TO loaf his way through
college, the student who wishes to
live the lawless life, shuts himself
out from the wide-open doors Of
Berea.
But we comfort ourselves with the
word Of the President Of Reed Col
lege: at has long been recognized
in this country that one boy who
seeks a college education because Of
strong inner purpose in the face of
obstacles is worth TO the college and
to society a dozen boys who go tn
college because il is regarded as the
proper thing to do"
II is our high task. then, to offer
to each student who COMES to us the
opportunity Of forming ennobling
friendships with the best that is in
the world-the best that is in the
world Of Nature, so that the stars
and the trees, the birds and the
mountains, may each unfold to him
something Of its friendly meaning;
the opportunity Of finding and max
ing friends with the world of his
tory and literature. Of psychology and
social science, so that the deeds and
the thoughts and the hearts of in
dividuals and of groups may speak
no strange and alien tongue, but the
language of comradeship.
In the mountains the other day I
met a man who spent his time in
manufacturing canes. In each cane
he put a compass. Happy is the
man whose education is to him ct
once a staff and a compass, to
strengthen, to protect, and TO guide.
The opportunity, too, of finding
and making friends with those who
have been called "The Friendly
Workmen Of the World" Take
boy who comes from little commu-
nifty in the hills. Set that boy to
singing in company with fifteen hun
bred Of his fellows, the Battle
Hymn of the Republic" America"
Faith of Our Fathers" there comes
TO that lad sense of comradeship
with others which he has never
known before. Out from the friend
ships Of the Chapel and the dining
room, we must lead him into the
friendship of all those who work in
friendly fashion all the world around.
Our students must sit where sit the
mourners in France, in Russia, in
Armenia. They must sit beside those
Christians in India who, at the pres
ent moment, find an apparent con-
tradiction between their Christianity
and their national aspirations. Our
students must learn to look, without
contempt, without condescension, and
without embarrassment, into the
faces of all Gods workmen every
where throughout the world; not
merely students from this or that
county, brothers of the common life.
Above the mountains. America.
Above all nations, humanity. God
hath made of one blood all nations
Of men. These are the slogans
which must sing themselves to the
very souls of our students.
As we have suggested, II is ours
to offer to each student the opportu-
nifty Of finding himself, as he wins
the mastery Of task which relates
itself to the world enterprise. Our
students come to us knowing little