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Taylor University Pillars at Taylor University Taylor University Bulletin Ringenberg Archives & Special Collections 7-1-1930 Taylor University Bulletin (July 1930) Taylor University Follow this and additional works at: https://pillars.taylor.edu/tu-bulletin Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Taylor University, "Taylor University Bulletin (July 1930)" (1930). Taylor University Bulletin. 328. https://pillars.taylor.edu/tu-bulletin/328 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Ringenberg Archives & Special Collections at Pillars at Taylor University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Taylor University Bulletin by an authorized administrator of Pillars at Taylor University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. TAYLOR UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Entered as second class matter at Upland, Ind., April 8, 1900, undei Act of Congress, July 16, 1894 VOL. XXII., NUMBER III. JULY, 1930 ISSUED MONTHLY s at Taylor View of the "second home" of thousands of Taylor Made People. Photographed by the 1929-30 Gem Staff. The entrance to the Adminis tration Building is shown, with the Music Building in the background. Page Two TAYLOR UNIVERSITY BULLETIN THE TRANS NEPTUNE for three years, to Taylor's PLANET has been named Plu restful green campus. Not only to, which means "the dark and WHAT HAS the campus with all its beauti gloomy god." This harmonizes ful shrubs and flowers greeted with the plan of naming the oth me but also Taylor's faculty and er planets, after Greek and Ro HAPPENED student body. The years here man gods. The people at Lowell have meant rest of body and Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, growth of soul to me. The en having discovered the planet, AND WHAT richment brought to my life * had the right to name it. through Taylor's faculty and SPEAKING OF GANDHI, IT MEANS student body will ever be a part it is unfortunate that some of of me. our ministers and missionaries Editorials by the President Another Young Man: I am have convictions that impel of Taylor University going to boost for Taylor as a them to lend aid and comfort school that gives creditable ed to his cause. If this is their con ucation in a wonderful environ viction, we honor their courage, even though it ment, where standards are high, where every op should and does disqualify them to live and work portunity is offered to do right, and where each under the British flag. But how they arrive at individual must stand on his own feet and develop this conviction is too much for us. The British his own character. Taylor does not manufacture government forms the only bond of unity India a stereotyped Christian character. It gives every has had in two millenniums. For seven hundred student the material and he must build for him years prior to the beginning of British rule, they self. — had Mohammedan rule. Nothing convinces us The high tides of spiritual blessings have more that Gandhi is merely a sublimated politi been a privilege enjoyed at Taylor that few cian than his expressed, and I believe insincere, schools offer, and I graduate this year, determined preference for the regime that prevailecFbefore to be a living witness for my Savior. England entered. Another Young Lady: It has meant a great PRESIDENT HOOVER has proved to be deal to me to have taken my A. B. course in a one of America's greatest presidents. The fact college where, besides being offered a first-class that he has been overridden by Congress two or college education, religious instruction not found three times does not mean that he is not strong in text-books has been given. Although my early with the people. It reflects the truthfulness of training in a Christian home is the greatest gen a recent remark by an eminent Englishman vis eral directing factor in my life, the spiritual iting this country: "It is our observation that values learned at Taylor will, I know, have even your great men are in business rather than in a greater influence than I can foresee. The deep politics." With an occasional big exception, men of ening received at Taylor, I trust and pray, will small calibre seek political preferment and reach continue and grow throughout life, so that what our legislatures, while men of outstanding person little I may be called and privileged to do shall ality turn their attention to business and profes not shame my Master. sional careers. More to the former than the lat We shall be glad to send Catalogue or reserve ter, for, as a cynical contemporary recently ob room for any who will write the President. Fall served, too often even great colleges and univer term opens September 17. sities are headed by men of mediocre size. A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME ONE THE STUDENTS RECOMMEND THEIR COLLEGE One hundred conservative schools and col leges are without an adequate textbook on OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY AND LITERATURE, Testimonials of the following, four students, because all evangelical texts are hopelessly out of two young men and two young women, who grad date and all recent texts are written from the uated this year at Taylor, will illustrate the feel modernistic standpoint. ing that was quite unanimous in the class. These A fully adequate two-volume text is now in remarks were selected from the student paper, manuscript form. It has been written by a thor The Echo, containing many similar. There were ough scholar, who not only is equipped by the fifty-five graduates, representing thirteen states. learning of the schools and long study, but who Two of these come from east of Taylor, two has studied the subject on the fields of Biblical from west. The four happen to be from outside history from Ur of the Chaldees to Rome, and of Indiana. illustrated the text by one hundred fifty views in A Certain Young Man: There are probably Bible lands. The latest wonderful revelations of few other colleges in the land where my partic Archeology are placed within reach of the student ular problems could have been met as well. For of this text. this preeminently am I grateful to Taylor. The only obstacle to the usefulness of this A Certain Young Lady: I came from the work is the lack of between three and four thous city's smoke, soot and noise, where I had lived and dollars to meet the cost of publication and TAYLOR UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page Three marketing of this greatly needed aid to Bible JOIN THE TAYLOR EDUCATION study. Any person, or number of persons, who ASSOCIATION would place this amount at the disposal of the President of Taylor University for the publication of this text, would render an immeasurable ser The new Taylor Education Association, a nation vice to the cause of Christian education and the wide organization, is organized to create a means preparation of young men and young women for of expression and contact for people wishing to Christian work. The book will be dedicated to * the memory of its sponsor. encourage a vital Christian education as illus trated in Taylor University. Its membership are STORY OF THE GLOBE REVIEW thus enabled through their moderate dues to make possible the maintenance of the institution with BY W. V. BISHOP, C. P. A. out undue inconvenience to themselves. It is a case of following the multitude to do good. The coop During the past decade the cry has come eration of the many takes the place of the riches of from far and near for a national magazine con the few. Our slogan is for everybody to join, even taining world news boiled down in a way that though they are benefactors whose gifts have will enable the extremely busy man and woman eclipsed the small membership fee. to receive this desired globe circling knowledge without being compelled to peruse many books, The Active Membership fee is $2.00 per year. This papers and magazines as they must do without goes to' Taylor's sustentation fund. The advantages of membership are many, including complimentary copies of the help of such a periodical. various publications of the Taylor University Press, and 0 The need for this has been recognized and 50 cents reduction on The Globe Review subscription. On an organization has been formed with headquart joining you will receive: The Soul Digger, worth $2.00; ers at 1754 Washington Boulevard, Chicago, Il the Angel in Ebony, 75 cents; Sammy Morris, 10 cents; The Savior and the Flag, 15 cents. Reduction on the linois, reaching out into the various parts of the Globe Review, 50 cents. world for news for the purpose of meeting your The following new members have been received in need. the Taylor Education Association since our last report: It was comparatively easy to arrange all Mr. B. A. Atkinson, Mr. J. W. Bedford, Mr. D. parts of the organization until it came to the se B. Blankenbiller, Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Bowen, Rev. E. A. lection of a man to become Editor-in-Chief. You Bunner, Mr. Wilfred A. Burch, Rev. Guy Burgener, Miss D. Willia Caffray, Mrs. William Chapman, Dr. John T. will at once recognize that the difficulty at this Chappell, Miss Lula F. Cline, Rev. G. A. Clymer, Mr. point has been that there are so few men with Raymond W. Cooke, Miss Helen Cox, Mr. A. W. Cross- sufficient world knowledge, mental grasp, edu man, Mr. F. P. Doty, Mr. Wesley Draper, Mrs. P. C. cational advantages and literary talent that are Dukes, Rev. W. N.