The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-24
|5RE 70 LIFE !.
THAN. SIRUceLE.
FOR LIVELIHOOD


M8 AUuhVoos
sWe hold Life to b moro than
I asruegle for bread end butter. ~
I mattsr Of fact, the eesiest pfob-
- Tor man to solve = he prob
~ Of making . living. LIE II
Snmanity, restless. seething. impa-
sssnt sometimes good, sometimes
"a. never sanity, never Wholly
:stclde the pale Of redemption.
IF education shall b the prepA-
r.tion for life, then . collage eds
esfion must give to ito gfsduates .
sully UNIFIED comprehensive undsr-
standipg Of humanity, And II q col
ma education ID . training Of
Chr,stian character, then 1t must
rive To its graduates q deep and
aiding sympathy for mankind. In
~. II ought to develop 3 passion
for humanity as the guiding I'M
nulse throughout every changing
fortune Of life." In these words,
Or. o. H. Pankoks. prominent edo.
Gator of New York City, summed
nm his conception Of the value Of
a college education In his address
At the S1st annual commencement
OF Augustana college in the col
lese chapel this morning.
The worth and value Of the small
college was strongly emphasized by
DR.. Pankoke. He said,' "A great
deal of fear has been expressed in
recent years that smsv;er educa-
tional institutions would be crowd
al out and eliminated by tremen-
dous institutions.
I'VE have come to realize that
in education, size may be a handi-
CAP rather than a BENEFIT becs1se
o school is not factory. A school
must prepare and develop the most
sacred, individual and complex
thing in the world, the human mind
and the human soul. 1t takes the
place Of the parent and the essen
tial Of parenthood is personal SYM
patty, understanding, and infinite
patience and interest. 1t is obvious
that q small school can and does
fulfill this requirement of educa-
ton far better than do the over
developed educational institutions
which have sprung up within re-
cent years. They may he large and
impressive, but they are not per.
sonal and by being impersonsl they
fall In the most important part Of
education"
Augustana's Future.
DR.. Pankoke has been closely as.
ISOLATED with the work at Angus.
tana college by virtue Of his posi-
ton as director Of the recent semi
nary campaign fund, therefore hi.
remarks concerning the future de
velopment of the college we're re
ceived with special interest. II,
said in part that there sis no valid
reason under the sun why within
the next five years there should no
be added to the resources of Au
gustana college at least 81, SOC, 900
They are needed to fit out this in
stitution, which has served for 81
years gone by in the service which
surely it must do for the churcl
for many decades to come. II sucl
3 sum, if not a larger one. is no
obtained within the next Ave yearl
1t will place some mighty seriou
problems before the board and fac
ulty. and there will be no solution
for them except a make-shift, tenn
porary solution, which is as q rule
worse than sitting back and doinI
nothing at ALL"
OF college education, the speake
said: I'm thus laying the back
ground and the foundation Of rea
scholarship We can draw some def
Unite conclusions that are only to-
often forgotten in q college train
ing. The first conclusion is that
college course must teach the abil
lty to think, not specifically, Blu
to think through and through eAcl
proposition as it arises. In til
second place college course mus
enable the student to go on whe
he has received his college diplo
ma 1t must give the students tn
ability to find out where they ca
get further information and wha
to do with the information whe
they have obtained it. And finally
. college course must give that i'm
patient, restlesss thirst for fufthe
information that will not permit
man to sit quiet and let his min
become dull and as the world goe
on increasing in knowledge, renal
stationary as a log in tho rive
soaked with water lies dead In tn
channel, an obstruction to trafiic.
Miss Rearce Gets Degree.
The bachelor Of arts degree wa
conferred on 80 graduates by D.
y. A. Andreen, president of the col
iege. Miss Iva Carrie Pearce, hea
OF the elocution department Of tn
scnool, received the mater OF arr
degree and Prof. G. X. Hansen I
lana college, Blair, Neb., receive
me degree Of doctor Of letters. 81
we're graduated from the academ,
The program:
urgan solo-Le Roy Carlson.
lnvocadon-Rev. P. MartinBon.