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WHY THE SMALL COLLEGE?
(Leading Editorial In High School Issue of The Blue' Stocking,
By Editor-in-Chief, C. W. Grafton) ‘
Every high school graduate who
plans to continue his education ipust
decide between the large university,
or. the one hand, and the small college,
on the other. It fs not a new problem,
for boys and girls have been deciding
it ever since colleges began. The fact
that there are students attending both
faculties they have. Perhaps they do
not realize, however, under just what
handicaps such professors work. They
mount the platform two or three times
a week to lecture before a large class.
Their classes number so many stu
dents that they can become familiar
with only a few, i^^any at all. Often-
and one that you can sincerely learn
to love. Try to imagine how it would
be to live there'for four years. Then
decide.
WHAT P. C. CLAIMS
Presbyterian college does'.not claim
types of institutions is a sufficient in-1 times papers are graded by an assist-
dication that there is difference of , ant, so that the professor actually has
opinion. j little contact either with the mind or
However, it is, we think, the small | the personality of the undergraduate,
college whose case is usually slighted A boy named Jones, let us say, may.
by the public. There is something vast- p.rhaps be known to his professor ask
ly impressive and alluring about the ai** individual with glasses who sits
campus of a great university; and on the second row of English 305 and
this, in itself, is enough to cause many r'-ceived a “D” last semester,
students to decide in its favor. One , In a small college the situatioiv^is
likes to think of brushing against radically different. Teachers often
thousands, perhaps, and of walking know the entire student body by name,
blocks to classes, and of watching the and have petsonal contact with many
respectful expression that people will of them. Jones, under such conditions,
register when you tell them you are j is no longer simply a bespectacled
from some place of world-wide fame. ■ young man on the second row. He be-
But the points in favor of a small col-1 conies, let us say, “a good student, but
lege_are seldom brought to notice, and j one who needs prodding. Does excel-
80 we shall venture to enumerate!lent work when made to,” A professor
some of them here. lin a sYnall college thus has an oppor-
Responsibility jtunity to help students through an in-1
A great many boys pass through timate knowledge of their strong |
college as if it were an amusement, and their failings. ■
park. They neither seek nor receive ■ Athletics
the slightest responsibility; and wher Whether you are in a large college
they have gone their respective ways or a small one, there are eleven men
they do not seem to realize that they i on the football team. In the first case,
have missed one of the greatest things j you must compete with several hun-
a boy can get out of college. It is of- dred men. If you are already a finish-
ten too late to wait until you have ed player, you may have a chance to
graduated to learn to be responsible play before the season is over; but
for things. You ought to spend four unless you are already a football star,
years at college, always reaching for there is little chance to become one.
work—Ivork on the athletic field, or The very fact that there are so many
work on the debating platform—work aspirants to athletic fame makes it
in the laboratory or upon the paper. • impossible to give real attention to
Instead of shying from responsibility, the developing of a man. If you have
you ought to search for it and then the goods, well and good—if you can’t
show people that you are to be trust- produce top-notch stuff, step aside,
ed. In other words, you ought to try I for there are plenty of others who can.
to BE somebody on the campus. And Perhaps the teams that represent a
that is one point for the small col- small college are not, as a rule, as
lege—it gives you a better chance tostrong as those that represent her
learn to be a leader. j larger neighbor. Nevertheless they
Professors jmore nearly fill the need for college
Many students favor the large in- {sports; In ■& small college, the coach.
to be the greatest on earth. In fact,
she would like it better if she needed
to make no claims at all. P. C. is'per-
fectly content to have prospective stu
dents make up their minds on the
grounds of things they can see and
feel. Nothing would be more satisfac
tory to the college authorities than
that every high school student-should
come and stroll over the campus and
walk through the buildings.
There are things in Clinton that
speak for themselves. We need not
Drag, for some things do their own
bragging. For example, Presbyterian
college is not afraid to match Leroy
Springs gymnasium with any in South
Carolina. Smyth hall, the new, modern,
fire-proof dormitory, erected in 1924,
is in a class with the best that has
bene built anywhere. Presbyterian’s
track is unequalled, not only in the
Palmetto state, but in other states
that could be mentioned. It is signifi
cant that five state track meets and
one S. I. A. A. contest hav® been held
in Clinton. This spring P. C. will again
be hoat'to bothoueets* ,
Perhaps you are familiar with the
P. C. slogan—“Where men are made.”
It is not a meaningless phrase that is
used simply because It sounds well.
It is one ofathe beliefs that we hold
most dear. If you want to laugh at it,
*race a few P. C. alumni and see if
they haven’t made good. Take a dozen
graduates of Presbyterian college at
random and try to look at their rec-
cords with a fair and open mind.
See For Yourself
This is a “see-for-yourseir* issue of
our college paper. We are trying to
show you ju^t what we have, and just
what it looks like. Remember that you
can’t fool a camera. We could fill
these pages with column after column
of description, but you might doubt
that. Instead, we are taking it for
granted that you are all from Mis
souri. We want to SHOW you.
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more often than not, has .to make his
own team. He is not given a group of
stars, but a group of men who want
to play football. He is lucky if he has
two or three men who are football
stars, to begin with. Hence he must
develop and study each man. This
gives everyone a chance to get physi
cal attention and advice. The small
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college offers a more democratic sys
tem of physical training.
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Got Up In The
Morning Fooling
DIZZY
1 BEOAM to suffer with
headache aod bilioua-
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Malone, of Buena Vista,
Ohio. 1 had a hurting
through the middle part
of my body which seem
ed to come from indiges
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"Someone asked me why I
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THEDFOBO’S
!
It is
Fsr CONSTIPATION
INDIOBSnON, BIUOUSNKSS^
In a small college you are familiar
with everyone. You learn to know
your friends because you live with
them and eat with them and work
with them and play with them. There
is an atmosphere of close-knit friend
ship that cannot be attained unless'
everyone Icnows everyone else. In a
\ large university, you may, at best,:
j know the names and faces of a hun-
j dred "or so of those *vith whom you;
! are most frequently thrown. The rest I
: of the student body is a vast crowd of
! strangers. If you met them in another
i iewn, there would' be nothing to iden- i
j tify them as students of your college.;
jYou might be in the same class with
; a man for six months and nexer know i
las much as his name. Such things are
I not idle hypotheses—they are actual,
facts. Which do you like the best? j
What To Consider
Leaving aside for the present the'
question of size, let us think of the!
things a student should consider when j
i he is choosing his future Alma Mater.!
Before you pick your college there are j
j about four main things to investigate.!
1 First, the reputation. What do peo-
j pie think of it ? What has it done ? Do '
! its teams show real sportsmanship ? I
Do the students you know from thati
college strike you as gentlemen? Is itj
a college you will be proud to-claim,
ai; your own? , :
Second, the equipment. Ask yourself
if the material equipment is sufficient.
*\ I Find out if there are adequate facili
ties for laboratory work, or for ath-1
letic work.-Ask yourself tf the dormi-'
tories are such that you will not be
dissatisfied. I
Third, the faculty. Find out what
kind of men will teach you. Will you
be able to make friends with them?
Are they the'kind who will help you
out of trouble or hefp you solve your
problems ? Do they know what they j J
are talking about? |
Fourth, the students. This is the 1
hardest of all, and yet one of the'
most necessary. Try to get into con- ^
tact with some of the students. Ask
j^iey. .a¥e.:C^n^' straight f
men.^oaid gdh be ask anyf
of them to vlsi^in your ^^e ? How
many of t^em fare tike kini that can j
get nekt to your skin and win your|
admiration ? x
When you have satisfied yourself
on these points, see if you can pos-
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