1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

Sli^ ^rrnll nf f I^t idta Slj^taVol, XXX OCTOBER, 1905 No. 1HANOVER COLLEGE,I HIS is a panegyric of his college, bya college-lover. Prejudiced? Certainly;all lovers ate. But when aboy of sixteen takes his plastic souland walks amid the joys and visionsof an inspiring college life for fouryears, he comes out a man of deep,abiding prejudices. It cannot behelped. He sees the things of hisalma mater in the glamour thatearly companionship put about her.In all the after years helooks throughthe radiance of fine and tender memories at his college, andis able to see what the outside can never see..\ green width of thirty acres covering a level plateau setwith vine-covered buildings; two hundred acres of wild forestverdure falling like some royal mantle around the ruggedshoulders of a hill five hundred feet high; a panorama ofmeadow and fertile farm land running from the foot of thenoble hill to the margin of a great, swift river; the river draininga quarter of a continent and in every twilight scintillatingwith the starry whiteness of sky-touching searchlights of ' 'shipsthat pass in the night."The glorious vista of twenty miles of the Ohio River sweepingthrough green palisades carved deep and rugged withravines that roar with scores of waterfalls, together with themany romantic trysting places under the shelter of great rocksand near sweet, purling springs, have been among the stronginfluences of this college, contributing outside of her curriculum,to the emotional enrichment and artistic culture of hersons and daughters.