1906-1907 Academic Catalog

Cl!:0.\1!\' ll.LI~ C01.Ll·!GI". II games. Special praise is due to tile first basket hall team, for the high standing which it won in the National Association and to Messrs. Carl and Leroy Marshall for the prominent places they woo in the Athletic meet in Cincinnati. Religious Jlduantages There are four flourishing churches in town: !\\cthodist Episcopal, United Presbyterian, Heformed Prei=bytcrian (Synod), Reformed Prcshyteriau (General Synod). Each of these churches maintains a young people's prayer meeting once a week. Ninety per cent of the students in attendance this year are professed Christians. All students are re<1uired to attend the church designated by their parents, who are requested to send their written wishes as to what church their children shall attend. \Ve welcome students of all Christian de– nominations. The enticements to sin, so plentiful in large cities and over-crowded colleges, are n<A [ound here. Special Advanta ges Cedarville College makes no pretension to do the work of .1 university. It is content to take its place with the smaller colleges of the land. But it does promise its patrons to do well and thoroughly whatever it claims to do. A college course is not in itself an educa– tion. It only opens the doors of a liberal education for the student. ll is a beginning not an end. This beginning we claim to be able to furnish. A university may have hundreds of teachers in its faculty, thousands of volumes in its library,and the most costly apparatus and extensive hlboratories. B.ut the students will come in contact with only a few of the professors, re.id a few of the books, use a few of the appliances. All of these he m.iy find here. The small colleges ha,•e ~~1!fh:o4o~;,df~n!, ~f:dicti1~~rkPre~-i~~~f~~vjuetguc~~tte:,~'~r:~ 1 i 1 ~~ 1 i ~~~ ~!~~~~ ~f 1 ~~1~ :~dr,~~~n;r s~~1i~~I ~i1l:~~~d ;~ea~u~c~~t~ i::rfi~~ than of tho:: larger colleges. It is no uncommon thing to find fifty lf~ec::~ts~~ i~ 1 !l;:~e~~~~ ~~1~!r::t~~1~i 1 1~~JJ~tu:f1~~;~f1!~~s ~ii~;~i':{~ his work can not get through, ,md a student who is living a fast and ,•icious life cannot stay in one of these small colleges. Agnostics, infidels, or men who mdulge in or tolerate drinking, are not found as teachers. The professors are generally consecrated Christians. All this is trt1e of Cedarville College. The professors arc energetic, ~jiJ~~I~~ ~~d:~~ 1 S!N 1 ef~Cth;~'l!ls ~~d ~itu~~\hi~l~~afs~rS?f~:~ ~~~!:~! are small so that students are obliged to recite seynal times during each hour. No student can slight work for one day without the fact being apparent to the profesS,)rS.