The Gavelyte, February 1911

Cl!JDAl{ V lLLB COLLBG~. Wilson; '02, Miss Mary Ervin; '03, S. C. Wright; '04, Prof. J . R. Fitzpatrick; '05, Rev. W. R. Graham; '06, J. A. Finney; '07, J. Carl Marshall; '08, Leroy Hencerson; '09, William Hawthorne; and '10, D. J. Brigham. When the Committee is complete, we shall ask each graduate of the col– lege to express his or her opinion of these suggestions, and others that may be included, and if there is sufficiant interest in them we shall take steps to carry tr.em into axecution. We do not believe these suggestions are unreasonable, or impracticable. Not much is asked from any one, but we do ask something from every one, and if ther~ is united response and co-operation we believe we can surprise our– selves and wonderfully help the college. The Task of The Times. BY WENDELL FOSTER. EDITOR'S NOTE:-This oration was delivered at the Intercollegiate Contest at Hiram College, February 10. The history of tho world is the story of man's widening sovereignty. The catalogue of his achievements is both long and lustrous. The prese :1t time i:; a century of wonders . Judged by human progress along the highway of scientific di~covery and inven– tion, or by the general widening of the horizon of human knowledge, it is not 11nly unsurp ·ls~ed, but leaves all previous centuries far be– hind. This has been called an Iron Age because of its worship cf utility and mammon and because of its materialistic sp!rit; a Silver Age because of the prevalence of intelligence and the knowledge of tfie arts and sciences; but it ranks as the Golden Age because of the wide extension of Ghristianity, and the grandeur of its opportunities and efforts for the uplifting of humanity. Every age has had its problems fraught with far reaching conaequences for good or evil, hut none with greater prublems than the prPsent We are living in the midst of moveml'nt~ that shall be recorded as marvels of history --"Ari age on ages telling". One of these great problems demanding immediate solution is temperance. It is more than a question of politics, money, or pleas– ure. It rises into the moral s~ihere, and involv<>s not only time but eternity . In the slums of our cities, at the mining camps, yes, at our very door:-, are the ignorant and the dt>graded. This condition has placed before u~ a great social prob lem which, combined with the Jcea question, pre. nts a combination of evils which must be overcome. ThE:>re is anot h.., r condition in our land which is of most serious