The Gavelyte, July 1915

6 l HE G VELY fE The Gavelyte PUBLISHED BY THE Students of Cedarville College, Cedarville, Ohio. Entered as Second Clas Mail Matter, in the Post Office at Cedar– ville, Ohio, January 6, 1906, under the act of March 3,1 79. All correspondence to "The GAVELYTE''-Office on N . Main St., Cedarville, Ohio. Sub cription Rate 75c per year-Smgle Copies, 10c. STAFF W. D. Sterrt-tt, '15 ...................... ......... ..... ... ......... ........ .... Editor-in-Chief R. Cecil Hurns, '15 ...................... ....................... Business Mgr. and Treas. A WORD FOR THE NEW PRESIDENT. (By John J . Wilson, Class of 1903 .) The life cf every institution is divided in o epochs. Thes,, are F:ep"ratPrl one from another by peculiar charn,.+P.ristics manifested in the life of the institution or by the names of the men whose hands have hPen th<' q:uirling f,)1'res . By the selection of Dr. McChesney as President cf CedarviJle (;olleP·e. ,vJ10 ran hut h:, 1 ieve that ~. nPw epocl\ in thP life of this school has been ushered in? I trnst that nothinJT I shall sav mav he interpreted as derogat ory to the work of Dr. McKinney who has inst h1-id down th0 man+l,-, which he wo-re i11 a most , '"~·' hv rru.,ffl1'''' for more than two decades. He did his work well. · V.. 1 e feel c.;urP that none Ul"der the s;:ime circumstances could have done better. I am sure, too, that he will be the first to ag-r~e with me that the ,,ele:•+ion of ~ni"h a m~n as J,::i.8 heen named for his successor augurs well for the future of the college. The ability of Professor McChesney all ackncwledge; his integ– ri-t-v none f'8n qnes+ion: while his interest in the work of the coller·c has been evinced by personal sacr ifices well known to us all. HP has "lost his life" in the service of Cedarville Colleve to find it n ow, ·we 1Tust and nrnv, in a new. a bir•·ger. Pnd better institution , there rPndering: a g-rea' er service than am- of which she has yet been cap– able. But it is not the purpose of this article to render fu1F:01,1e pn1ise to the new President for he needR not that I shou ld laud him. Th e real desio;n is to make an appeal, especially to the Alumni of the college, fol' a loyal support to him now in the very be ~dnni ng of his a.dministration. I am not pleading for anything- material such as the gift of money or the raising of an endowment althoug-h thi:>se needs may be PTeat. I feel sure the president would prefer a sup– port less material just now. It has been my privilege to meet him face to face recently, and I know ho,,_, keenly he feels the bmden of