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Butler Alumnal Quarterly (1915) Butler University Butler University Digital Commons @ Butler University Butler Alumnal Quarterly University Special Collections 1915 Butler Alumnal Quarterly (1915) Butler University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/bualumnalquarterly Part of the Other History Commons Recommended Citation Butler University, "Butler Alumnal Quarterly (1915)" (1915). Butler Alumnal Quarterly. Book 5. http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/bualumnalquarterly/5 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Special Collections at Digital Commons @ Butler University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Butler Alumnal Quarterly by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Butler University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Lyrasis IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/butleralumnalqua04butl Contents of Volume IV April, 1915 Founder's Day Address 1 Speaker Introduced by President Thomas Carr Howe 1 Education and Religion. By President George R, Grose, DePauw University 3 Chapel Talk By William Jennings Bryan 19 Conscience and Life. By Yirilliam Franklin Clarke 28 The Sheep Dog Trials at Grasmere, By Frances Elizabeth Doan..... 32 Foimder ' s Day 39 C ommencement 42 Reunion of »90 42 Oratorical Contest 43 Butler Alumnal Fund. • 43 Changed Address 43 Personal Mention 44 Births 47 Mar ri age s....... 48 Deaths 48 Our Correspondence 53 July, 1915 Commencement Address. By Charles Reynolds Brovm 55 Baccalaureate Sermon. By Jabez "Hall 70 1'Vhite Clover Blossoms. By Rachel Quick Buttz... 80 John Kuir. By Katharine kerrill Graydon 81 Napoleon on St. Helena. By Paul Wiley Weer 92 Commencement Vfeek 93 Clas s Reunions 103 New Trustees 107 A New Auditoriiam 107 Demia Butler Room 108 Recent Books 109 A Semi -Centennial Celebration 109 Honors for Butler Alumni 110 Butler College Bulletin Ill . Contsnts of Volume IV Autumnal Alumni Meeting Ill Personal Mention. 112 Births 120 Marriages 121 Deaths 122 Memorial Service 128 Our Correspondence , 131 October, 1915 Two Summers, A Nantucket Story. By Janet D. Moores 133 A Glimpse of Dr. James Mvirray. By Jane Graydon. 159 The Approved Vforkman. By Clarence Reidenbach. 160 Self-Cultivation of Mothers. By Minnie Olcott Vfilliams 164 The Choir of the Russian Cathedral 170 The Opening of College 173 The Secretary* s Office 174 From the President's Report 175 Autumnal Alumni Meeting 176 A tlew Course.. 176 The Athletic Outlook 178 The Delta Tau Delta Scholarship 179 A Later Commencement. 179 Personal Mention. 180 Marriages • 185 Births • 186 Deaths 187 January, 1916 A Chapel Talk. By Dr. Douglas Adams 201 Chaucer as a Literary Artist. By John S • Kenyon 212 The Lesser Channel Islands. By Ethel Rous Curryer 242 The Optamist Man: An Intermittent Revery. By Esther Fay Shover 247 Fo\mder»s Day 249 The Little Theater Society of Indiana 249 Football in 1915 250 Contents of Vol-ume IV The Senatorial Nomination 254 An Invention 254 Alumni Luncheon, , 255 Sandvd.ch Club Banquet. 255 Personal Mention 256 Marriages * 258 Births 259 Deaths 259 Our Correspondence. 263 K r allien Jticfjarbsion 2?enton 1822=1914 (Tbc f^igbteous sball bctn everlasting remembrance 5 Quarterly Vol. Hi INDIANAPOLIS, IND., APRIL, 191 No. i Founder s Day Address [President Thomas Carr Howe, in introducing the speaker of the day, said:] It seems a long time ago when we think back to the date of the charter of this college,—sixty-five years ago the first of last month the charter of this college became efi:'ective, and sixty years ago next fall its first sessions began. In these years much has happened, great development has come to our land, great changes have come in the world. This college has graduated almost eight hundred students and has sent them out into all walks of life. A small number, no doubt you say, as compared with the great graduating list of many of our colleges and uni- versities. But thousands and thousands of others have taken a part of their collegiate training here, and who knows, who can estimate, the influence that has gone forth during these years from this college? And this is but one of many hundreds of such institutions throughout the land which are trying to fit for right living the boys and girls that are given to their keeping. Because, after all, that is the ultimate aim of our business—to train young men and women as best we can for right living. This college, as has been repeated so often, owes its founda- tion to the efiforts of a group of men calling themselves Disciples of Christ, and one of the chiefest of these was the man whose fine face is portrayed on the wall behind me. He it was who outlined and wrote its charter, and for him it has been named. But there were others, and many others, who were active with him in this work, and as we come together this afternoon let us give this little bit of time out of our busy lives to ponder on what these men did. Let us try to put ourselves back into their time and realize the conditions under which they worked, and 2 Butler Alumnal Quarterly let us try to realize what their ideals and purposes were. These were not soft men ; they were sturdy, rugged men ; they were like the great oaks of the forest. They were not bent by every wind of changing doctrine ; they had firm convictions. You say at times, perhaps, that such men are intolerant, but they stood for something, and they believed that first of all the youth of the land must be educated, if the nation is to progress as it should and be true to its ideals and realize its purposes. And they believed that that higher education should be a religious education, it should be a Christian training; and so colleges like Butler, and Wabash, and DePauw, and hundreds of others, were established all over this land by the God-fearing men and women who believed in a God, and who believed that without God in our lives our lives can never be a success, can never be worth while. And so we this afternoon would honor these men, and not only just these—let us honor all who have helped to make this college what it is. There have been not only business men on the outside who have labored and striven and saved of their means and given it for a perpetual source of helpfulness, but there have also been those who have given of their life's blood in teaching, in actual contact, in carrying out the purposes of the founders of this college. These are all the founders whom we would honor to-day. We honor Mr. Butler, and we honor those who have been associated with him. We honor those who have been trus- tees, directors on the board, those who have been professors and who have left their stamp here and made themselves a part of this college. Is this college worth while? It has been in the past. The question that we have to settle now is, Are we going to keep it worth while, and make it more worth while in the future ? That is the burden laid upon us who to-day are charged with its administration. Are we of the stuff of which these early fath- ers were made? Have we the vision, have we the steadfastness, have we the purity of life, have we the earnestness and honesty of purpose to go forward and make here what they would have us develop? Because the college cannot stand still. It must Founder's Day Address 3 give a reason for its existence; it must justify itself every hour. And to those of us who have to do with this college and who think back into the past and who have some imagination about the future and the perils that attend our nation, feel that to-day stronger than ever rings out the call that we shall be true men, that we shall see clearly, that we shall do our duty and keep these institutions pure and true to the ideals of the original founders. They must always be Christian, in the highest, best sense of the word, and may they cease to exist if they ever depart from the purposes of their founders. This afternoon we are very happy to have as our guest to ad- dress us one who is the head of a great sister university in the State. DePauw (old Asbury) has a long, proud, honorable career, and he who is at its head in these days is fully worthy of the position he holds. I can say for him to you, my friends, that I know something of his influence among the young men and women who come in contact with him, and I am very happy, indeed, that DePauw University has a Christian gentleman of the fine type of President Grose as its chief executive. I am sure he has a message this afternoon that will mean much to us. I take great pleasure in presenting President George R. Grose, of DePauw University. EDUCATION AND RELIGION ' President George R. Grose, DePauw University It is a distinct honor and privilege to be permitted on this occasion to share with you in this celebration and to give the message of this hour. I wish also to bring very cordial greet- ings and felicitations from one of your neighboring sister insti- tutions who is interested in your prosperity, and who is grateful to God for the distinguished career which your institution has already had.
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