Identifier: aurora1920manc (find matches)
Title: Aurora
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Manchester College (North Manchester, Ind.)
Subjects: Manchester College (North Manchester, Ind.) Universities and colleges College yearbooks
Publisher: (North Manchester, Ind. : The College)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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t mem-ories are associatedwith the parlors anddining- hall of thisbuilding. The centurycloses then with threelarge buildings on thegrounds. The minutes of thefaculty meetnig of thefirst year of the schoolimpress one that the pedagogy of these early days was not of the soft knid.Discipline was administered for various offences. Some were expelled and anumber suspended. Some of those who departed from the narrow Avay werecompelled to make apologies to the faculty and pledge to do bettei. Do notworry, we shall not give names here. Cttprarg, H^ltgtott/g^nrial mh Atljlrttr ArttbtttPB 1835-1902 Around an educational center there are so many incidents of life and in-terest, so many trivial happenings that go to make this life and interest, thatit is difficult for the historian to be confined to chronological facts and log-ical conclusions. The aim of the founders of Manchester College was to provide an institu-tion w^here young men and women might receive an education in a Ciirist-Fag^e 17 J
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PROF. I.. D. IKENBEBRY Chairman of Faculty 1900-1901 iaii environment. Emphasis was placed on the study of the Bible, perhaps, toa greater extent than in the acquiring of literary knowledge. Education means mental de-velopment butthat alone with-out spiritual andsocial develop-ment fails to pre-pare the individ-ual for completeliving. Variousactivities — relig-ious, literary andsocial—were soonorganized, and theorigin, growth andprogress of theseorganizations con-stitute an import-ant chapter in the history of the school. All public meetings were held in thechapel, which occupied the east half of the second floor in College Hall. Thiswas furnished with plain ordinary chairs which had been bought or donatedwherever they could be found. The first important organization Avas the College Sunday School. The in-terest and teaching were excellent and many students consider the lessonsreceived as moulding influences in their lives. The accommodations and equip- :Mm ^M I i, Jh m m^---^-^-

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