Cedarville College Bulletin, October 1922

th rocks while Lhe endowed school comes onL all Lhe stronger because of its trial and victory. * * * .\merica makes larger provision for the men who breed hogs Lhan for Lhe worn ~n who rear our el1ildren. \Ye should at least be as generous in L,hc C'dncation of L11osc "ho <·are for the character and conduct of humai~ily as in Lhat given tlio~c who cultivate cotton and corn. The highest and broadest education is not too good for the mothers of men." -President J. R. Countiss, Grenada College. A WISE INVESTMENT "Marble and brick and granite will crumble. A college, living in deathless youth, preserves the works of its benefactors in the char– acters of those whom it trains." one of us like to be forgotten. From the time of Cheops to the present day, men have been building pyramids and tombs, erecting tablets and headstones to tell that they are dead. But the thinking man who puts his money into the endowment of a college leaves a memorial to tell that his spirit is alive as long as the institution stands. In the "Bonnie Brier Bush," the schoolmaster says to Drums- heugb: "Ye think that a'm asking a great thing when I plead for a few notes to give a puir laddie a college education. I tell ye, man, a'm honoring ye and givin' ye the fairest chance ye'll ever hae o' win– ning wealth." Bishop McDowell tells of an old farmer at the close of the Civil war who, bereft of his sons, sat down in a certain college chapel. He saw the students come in and had a vision of the long procession of students through the years. He said to himself: "These will go and others will come. The professors will go and others will take their places. My farm would just about endow a chair. I will go home and deed it to this college. Then, by the grace of God, I shall be here while the world stands." "Oxford and Cambridge have 1800 separate endowed fellowships and scholarships, to say nothing of the smaller foundations. Leipzig has 407 distinct funds, the oldest dating 1325, and wherever the higher academic life has flourished we find scores of memorials bearing th~ names of husbands, wives, parents, children, and providing for students of some special class, locality, or establishing some new line of investigation." I