1933 Cedrus Yearbook

A. J. HOSTETLER Registrar Director of Teachers' Training; B. S.. Ohio Northern Univer- sity; A. M. Wittenberg College. of summer. He knew that there would then be a scarcity of food and a need for shelter and clothing. Another step forward in his development was taken when he used his scientific knowledge to provide for the coming season. Then in spite of all this knowledge of facts and laws came an error in man's thinking. He failed to realize that all the things which happened about him were the result of some cause, and that there was a scientific reason for it. Even though he had seen the uniformity of these laws and had even ap- plied some of them for his own use, when he began to search for the reason and causesfor things,he sub- stituted fantasy and superstition for the true causes. He would rather have a number of mythical gods and live in a world ruled by their whims and fancies than to accept the well planned and orderly world in which he actually lived. These superstititions and opinions were so popular that when someone did use sound reasoning and arrive at true conclusions he was not believed; in fact, he was in danger of being persecuted for his heresy. The early scientists were said to be practition- ers of "Black Arts" when, in truth, they were the most enlightened individuals in the world. So we find that science met with such bitter opposition and had such a struggle for existence that its growth was very slow, especially in these early years. The old super- stitions, however, were so popular and so firmly fixed that they persist even to this day —a day which is said to be the scientific age. Truly this seems to be the beginning of a great scientific era. People are becoming science-minded. We have in our grasp a great fund of knowledge and an aptitude for its application. Our duty is to apply it in the right way. It can easily be seen that with im- proper motives and objectives this whole civilization of ours could be wiped from the SOPHOMO RE CLASS First row: Trubee, Ferryman, Ferguson, McNamee Second row: Pyles, Mount, Patterson, Watkins, Lunsford, Atchison, M. Gordon, Bull, Spahr, Bennett Third row: Taylor, Harriman, Straley, Ford, C. Brill, West, Probasco, Crawford, Walker; Fourth row: Kitchen, Finney, Rife, Christian, Tindall, E. Spencer, Kenfield, Cash, Nelson, Donaldson, McCallister. !age Twenty-six