Cedarville College Bulletin, October 1922

him; good occupations defend him; helpful friends surround him; pure ideals are held up before him; ambitions spur him; honor beckons him"-former president Eliot. Alice Freeman Palmer, when she was president of Wellesley, once said that college life ought to be the best sort of good time-not the good time of self-indulgence or moving along lines of least resistance, but the good time of generous friendships and high ideals. EDUCATIONAL "A college is an institution requiring for admission graduation from a standard secondary school, or the equivalent, and offering a four year curriculum leading to the first degree in arts or science, of such character as to qualify for admission to a graduate school of recognized standing."-Report of the National Conference Commission on Standards of Colleges, March 1, 1918. "The standard American college is a college with a four year curriculum, with a tendency to differentiate its parts in such a way that the first two years are a continuation of, and a supplement to the wo~k of the secondary instruction as given in the high school, while the last two years are shaped more or less distinctly in the direction of special, professional, or university instruction. "-This ,<?tandard as defined in 1918, called for a productive endowment of not less than $200,000. The North Central Association. "Considering the time of life when the work of education ought to be done, the most costly education with the minimum of results to the individual is that which is picked up here and there as life presents opportunities and as boys improve them. With their well ordered and enriched courses, and their organized social life, the schools effect for young men an enormous saving of time and costly mistakes. Even if we ;illow the claim that the college offers nothing that life outside the school does not offer, the advantage is on the side of the school.-N athaniel Butler. RELIGIOUS "The Christian college is an agency of the church for the promo– tion of the kingdom of God through educational processes. A large portion, probably one-half of all the money expended in foreign mission lands is expended for the maintenance of schools and col– leges and the support of trained and consecrated teachers, because experience has shown that this is one of the most effective means , of accomplishing the work assigned to the church." -James E. Clarke. - 11 -