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In his inaugural address — reprinted in the 1915 Cedarville College
Bulletin—Cedarville’s second President, Dr. W.R. McChesney, cast
his vision for “the ideal college.” Nearly 100 years later, Cedarville
University still strives to use its influence to “train our youth,
enrich the nation, and make glad the Church of Christ” for
coming generations.
Citizens of Cedarville and community, Board of Trustees, alumni, students,
and faculty, let us here and now dedicate ourselves anew … to toil with faith in God
and with a view single to His glory for the upbuilding of Cedarville College that there
may continue through the coming ages a Christian institution of higher learning
in our midst to train our youth, enrich our nation, and make glad the Church of Christ.
And in doing so we pray not for lighter tasks but greater strength; not for conflicts to be
shunned but for courage and wisdom to meet them; not for passing honor, whose getting is
unworthy of earnest effort, but for potent influence so holy, rational, serviceable and devoid
of selfish purpose that it shall uplift fellowmen as it breathes upon them its beneficence and so
continue, after our work is done, to carry its blissful charm and power to coming generations.
The Ideal College
