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Hope College Digital Commons @ Hope College Hope College Catalogs Hope College Publications 1910 1910-1911. Catalog. Hope College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.hope.edu/catalogs Part of the Archival Science Commons Recommended Citation Hope College, "1910-1911. Catalog." (1910). Hope College Catalogs. 40. http://digitalcommons.hope.edu/catalogs/40 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Hope College Publications at Digital Commons @ Hope College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hope College Catalogs by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Hope College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. HOPE COLLEGE ■ :>• ''I ' » Pi h' HOLLAND MICHIGAN jf/a~ /f// HOPE COLLEGE Founded as PIONEER SCHOOL, 1851 Reorganized us H O L L A N D ACADEMY, 1857 Incorporated as HOPE COLLEGE, 1866 /fs(> A COLLEGE OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA Y E A R B O O K 1910-1911 ' No. 48 ■ INCLUDING ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR 1911-1912 ■ '■' ' ' ' COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS • ........ S H ope College Y ear Book D e H ope , T he Leader T he A nchor. For copies of these publications, address ■ Prof. H enry Boers, Secretary, H o pe College, Holland, Michigan TABLE OF CONTENTS A D M I S S I O N — College. 18 Preparatory School........................ 44 Advantages Offered.. ................................. 78 Alumni Association. 90 Alumni Rolls........................................ 95 Calendar.......................... ’■................. 3 Chronological....................................... 92 College Foundation.................................... 5 Contributions. 89 Council.............................................11 C O U R S E S — T h e College.. .20 ■ T h e Preparatory School...................... 48 T h e School of Music........................ 65 D E G R E E S — Conferred in 1910......................... ...91 Requirements for........................ 17,19 Diplomas........................................... 19 Examinations........................................ 78 Expenses....................................... 84 Faculties........... .......................... 14, 46, 66 Grounds and Buildings................................... 75 Library............................... 80 Location............................................75 Miscellaneous Information.............................. 75 Museum............................................ 88 Prizes.............................................. 81 Publications.. ,...................................... 81 Religious Services................ 79 Roll of Students................................. 39,59,72 School Year......................................... 77 Societies........................................... 80 Western Theological Seminary.......................... 112 a COLLEGE CALENDAR 1910 S e pt ember 21..... Examination for Admission be­ ginning at 9 A. M. in Graves Hall. • September 22..... Fall T e r m begins at 9 A. M. Nov’ember’ 24..... Tbanksgiving Recess. December 23..... -Fall T e r m ends. V A C A T I O N 1911 January 9 ......... Wi nt e r T e r m begins. January 2 6 . D a y of Prayer for Colleges. M a r c h 3 1......... Winter T e r m ends. , V A C A T I O N 1911 April 10.......... Spring T e r m begins. ^.^•'’^p r i l 26.......... Meeting of the Council. June 8-9......... Examination of Senior and “A ” Classes. June 15-16........ Undergraduate Examinations. June 18.......... Baccalaureate Sermon. June 19.......... Closing Exercises of the G r a m ­ mar School in Carnegie G y m n a ­ sium. 2 P' M . June 20.......... Meeting of .Alumni Association. June 20.......... Meeting of Council, 10 A. M. June 21.......... Commencement Exercises in Carnegie G y m n a s i u m , 7:30 P. M . VACATION 1911 September 19...... Examination for Admission, be­ ginning at 9 A. M., in Graves Hall. September 20..... Fall T e r m begins at 9 A. M . November 30......Thanksgiving Recess. December 22...... Fall T e r m ends. 1 V A C A T I O N 1912 January 8 ........ .Winter T e r m begins. ' January 25........ D a y of Prayer for Colleges. M a r c h 2 9 . W i nt e r T e r m ends. VACATION 1912 April 8 ........... Spring T e r m begins. April 2 4 .......... M e eting of Council. June 6-7......... Examination of Senior and “A ” Classes. June 13-14........ Undergraduate Examinations. June 16..... ..... Baccalaureate Sermon. June 18.......... Closing Exercises of the G r a m ­ mar School’in Carnegie G y m n a ­ sium, 2 P. M . June 18... .......Meeting of-Alumni Association. June 18.......... M e eting of Council, 10 A. M. June 19.......... Commencement Exercises in Carnegie G y m n a s i u m , 7:30 P. M . T h e College Foundation T h e Missionary Spirit, united with the principle of re­ ligious liberty and political freedom, gave birth to H o p e Col­ lege. A s early as 1836 the R e f o r m e d church in America, one of the earliest church organizations in this country, discussed the desirability of planting higher institutions of learning out upon the western frontier. In 1847 and in subsequent years a goodly n u m b e r of colonists f r om the Netherlands settled in Western Michigan and in other localities of some of the Western States. They were devout people and sought this country to secure a higher degree of material prosperity and religious liberty than their o w n country afforded. In 1850 these colonists united themselves with the R e ­ fo rm e d C h ur c h and in this union w a s to be found the realiza­ tion of w h a t the C h ur c h had long h o pe d for and desired, viz., the establishment of a Christian institution of higher educa­ tion in the West. ' T h e Hollanders w h o settled in those western wilds, were a religious people and their leader, the Rev. Dr. V a n Raalte, himself a m a n of culture and learning, had a passion for higher Christian education. H e realized that if his people were to be a success in this country and to be more than hewers of wood and drawers of water, they must have the advantage of intellectual and moral training. Already in 1851, when life was but little more to them than a struggle for existence, they heroically laid the founda­ tion for higher education. A n d in 1857, w h e n they w e re yet comparative strangers to-the customs and language of the country, they organized Holland Academy, which in turn became H o p e College in 1866, an institution regularly char­ tered under the laws of-,the State. ' Three' ye‘ars later the W e s t e r n Theological S eminary w a s established. T h e persistent efforts and self-denying spirit displayed by these pioneers gave abundant prgof that they were worthy descendants of the vigorous stock of L e y d e n ’s defenders. T h e history of the founding and- organization of H ope, College is but a repetition of the history of not a few of the leading institutions of qur country. ■ T h e beginning was, in­ deed, feeble; hut the founders, baptized it with a spirit' of devotion and self-sacrifice that defied all difficulties a'nd tri­ u m phed over every obstacle and gave it a vital energy which has s h o w n itself in a rich harvest of blessed results. '. In the very nature of things, the gr ow t h of the institution could not be rapid but it has been steady and wholesome. In its development and g r ow t h the trustees have always strictly adhered to the object declared by the leading orig­ inators of the Pioneer School w h e n they used the following words: ■ ,- ■ “Believing that the school proposed to be established a m o n g the Holland Colonists in Ottawa county and vicinity, Michigan,'for the purposes "and after the manner named in the following qlan, is greatly needed in order to supply them and their children in time to c o m e with a preached gospel and with weil-qualified teachers for their c o m m o n and higher schools, and that such, schools will ha-ve a m o s t important and beneficial effect u p on the intellectual, moral and religious state of said colonists, and that it will-tend greatly to pro­ mote the growth and usefulness of our institutions and to enlarge arid strengthen our influence, for good as-a church of Jesus Christ, and that the m e a n s contributed for the support • of said school'as proposed will be. spent u p o n an enterprise that promises great and extensive benefit, we,"the underf signed, do therefore hereby m o s t cordially and with con­ fidence r e c o m m e n d this object to the benevolence and liber­ ality of those to w h o m it m a y be presented.” . .(Signed by these pillars in the Reformed Church:) James L Cannon, . ,.Theo. Krelinghuysen, ' . .Wm . H . Campbell, ' ' ' T homas D eW itt, . ■ • ' ‘ , Samuel ,A. .Van V ranken, ■ ' ’ I. Proudfit. • T o prove to the world that these»m e n spoke as with prophetic vision, ,it is ,but necessary to ‘ state" that already a b ou t ’400 have graduated fr om this'c'ollege; arid that m o r e than half of t h e m have entered the Gospel' ministry; and that a large n u m b e r of others w h o received' their- training here are engaged in teaching; and,others-are making'their influence for g o o d felt in other professions.' ■ . It m a y be truthfully said that the results have been larger than even .the most sanguine of the pioneer projectors had dared to hope and that the influence of these institutions is today felt around the globe.

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