MACALESTER COLLEGE BULLETIN Enterec Acce I A pril ptance 29, for 190 1 ma Act 5, at St. Paul. Minnesota, as second class matter un Congress July 16. 1894. iling at special rate of postage provided for in sect of October ?>. 1917. authorized July 31, 1918. der ion Act 1103, of Vol. VII. OCTOBER, 1918 No. 1 Issued i quarter] y in October, January, April. and June. Report of the Trustees of Macalester College to the Synod of Minnesota, Worthington, October 1 0, 1 9 1 8 £rr Fathers and Brethren: Macalester College in entering- upon the thirty-third year of its scholastic history faces a situation entirely new. The heavy enlistment of the men of the upper classes in various forms of Avar work leaves the advanced courses almost entirely to the women of the institution, and the introduction of the Students' Army Training Corps lias given an unusual preponderance of men to the freshman class. There are now enrolled in the college: Men Women Seniors 3 23 Juniors 9 35 Sophomores 24 42 Freshmen 94 59 130 159 Total 289 Music 45 Total 334 The task of properly housing the student soldiers was solved to the com- plete satisfaction of the representative of the war department, the entire east wing of the main building having been converted into barracks providing accommodation for 200 men. Edward's Hall has been renovated and is now used as a mess hall. That educated young men can most easily adapt themselves to the exigen- cies of military discipline and leadership, the war has clearly demonstrated. It has also shown that the marked trend of recent years to make college training MYEBSiir <- no falling off in attendance in ele- rr.enl ools, high schools or colleges is ;i matter of th<- vo •>• greatesl Importance, af- both our strength in war and our national welfare and efficiency when the war Bo ion-- ;i i be a ar i out Inuea I here nt d< ed o\ \ '•!■■• large ouml of men and women ol the highest and most i lines. After the war there will be urgent need not only for trained leadership in all lines of industrial, commercial, social and civic life, but for a very high average of in- telligence and preparation on the part of all the people. I would therefore urge that the people continue to give generous support to their schools of all grades and that the schools adjust themselves as wisely as pos- sible to the new conditions to the end that DO boy or girl shall have less opportunity for education because of the war and that the nation may be strengthened as it can only be through tin 1 right education of all its people. * * * Cordially and sincerely yours, WOODKOW WILSON. Hon. Franklin k. Lane, Secretary of the interior. MACALESTER COLLEGE BULLETIN IN MEMORIAM Professor Thomas Shaw Tribute by President Elmer Allen Bess Mine is not only the part that I may have as a representative of Macalester College of whose Board of Trustees Professor Shaw was president for so long a time, but also the part of a fiiend and one who began to love him at first sight. I can remember how we went together last fall over the city and over the Macalester College grounds, and jokingly I said to him at the time that he was my personal conductor in this first en- trance to the understanding of the work that I was called to do. But I have discovered that though I have not been able to be a great deal in his pres- ence nor he in mine on account of the cir- cumstances of his sickness, his spirit has nevertheless followed me, and that there has been an atmosphere that has been around my thoughts by which I have been guided very largely. The tribute to be given by Macalester Col- lege in relation to his influence is I believe of a twofold nature. First, the spirit that he fostered towards the college has char- acterized him in all his life I imagine. Sec- ond, the atmosphere that was about him by which those who had adhered to the college in faithfulness thought of him. After all that is the inside of the life of a man and it is also the reputation of a man, and by these forces he is working. So did our good professor work, so did he live. By my association with him I feel that this spirit and atmosphere has been re- vealed by a wonderful degree of love, kind- ness, tenderness and thoughtfulness when speaking of the men and women who had been associated with the college. Tender and beautiful were his expressions. Grate- ful and thoughtful were his words. Con- stantly he spoke of this professor or that, of this member of the Board of Trustees or that, and of the students who had been his in other years — his to love and to foster in his influence. Boys and girls who were now men and women in far off lands doing a world's service he followed in tenderness of thought. This reference to his old stu- dents he gave me while upon his sick bed. This spirit and this atmosphere is again revealed by his hopefulness for the future of the college. During those days that were dark, even darker than these days that are so stressful for all institutions of whatever nature, he looked out with an Isaiah's faith. He was a statesman of a better day. He believed in the brighter hopes and of the finer future. He expressed it constantly to me. I could not keep him from talking about the college. All the while he would speak of it to me, and always in that hopeful way that gave me faith to go back into the work and go on with the new program based on the policies of the past. As revealing this spirit and this atmos- phere, and as illustrative of his life in gen- eral, there was an eager readiness for sacri- fice in any emergency connected with the college. At any time he would pack up his own affairs and set them aside, and go out for a day's work for the institution's needs. At any time he would set aside his own af- fairs and do something for some student. In sacrificial spirit he lived for the institu- tion, but I imagine it was not only true of the college but of other institutions. This was also true of those close around him. It may have been that he might have been a fighter in times past when the cause ap- pealed to him as sufficiently righteous; but at the same time he was willing to make a marvellous sacrifice for harmony and affec- tion. Then I realized that there were problems in his heart, problems that he brought up to all of us when we came in close contact with him, problems of the future for the institu- tion that indicated that he had it firmly fixed in his thought. As we spoke of the new policies for the college I found he was ahead of my thought. As we would talk of our hope in regard to the program for individual training in college I found that he had been thinking broadly and keenly seeing the ten- MACALESTER COLLEGE BULLETIN I dencies of education today. Even so he en- tered into all the departments of the col- lege, and likewise put himself in relation to other people outside of this particular group understanding their point of view, interpret- ing their knowledge and becoming a wise counsellor because he went into the inner life of the institutions or people with ana- lytical apprehension. As revealing his spirit and the atmosphere that surrounded him I think that last of all I should speak of the genuine and sincere goodness (to which Dr. Wilson has so ad- mirably referred). Pure goodness perineal ed all his thoughts and surrounded all his deeds. Perhaps Chaucer's words about his good parson are true in regard to him: "The lore of Christ and His Apostles twelve he taught, but first he followed it himselve.'' He loved his Master. He followed his Mas- ter, and gave the impression unto those to whom he ministered that he was following the way of Jesus Christ. Pure goodness he possessed, and others could not help but read the story of his living — a beautiful story of goodness in deeds, conversation and unsullied reputation. A Tribute (abridged) by Rev. Harry Noble Wilson, Pastor of Central Presbyterian Church, St. Paul When a great man is called home, it is difficult to sum up in a few brief words a proper estimate of his character and achieve- ments. True indeed is this, when the man's greatness consists in the application of one peculiar gift to the use of mankind. But when, as is the case in this instance, the gifts are many, and have been used in many ways, the task is, indeed, doubly hard. Professor Thomas Shaw was an educator, author, editor, agriculturist, Bible teacher and Christian scholar. He is known every- where in the Northwest as the builder of an empire of rich acres. The science of dry farming, which has added millions of acres to our public domain, had in him its best in terpreter and sanest advocate. Professor Shaw was born on a farm in Ontario on the third of January, eighteen hundred and forty-three. It was my rich privilege, as his intimate friend, to have him place in my hands the manuscript of a book just written, and which is yet in the print er's hands, that in a luminous and pictur- esque description told the wonderful story of the development of that village in which he was brought up, that village which had rged in the wilds of early Canada a lit- tle before he was born. It told the story of the families who lived there, the story of the neighbors whom he knew as a boy. It aled the ideals and shaping of the new there. In this booh I read of his own family and hie own upbringing, of the sturdy, ous, God-fearing ancestry And after I bad read it, I sd do more a1 'i f - sterling qualities earnesl purpose ol our friend's life thai could be seen In I Ion and heard In .1 d Keen of perception, tireless in his indus- try, with a marvellous grasp of any problem to which he gave his thought, a little wonder that he made a complete mastery of the sub- ject of agriculture and allied industries. Fifteen books on agricultural subjects are in use in our best institutions. A mass of technical and popular articles published in the best journals have reached and inspired hundreds of thousands, and they are but a pait, and a part only, of the splendid legacy he has left to the world. Even when sick- ness came and when he could not but realize that the end was approaching, still he worked on and many of you have read with- in the last few weeks articles in the local paper that he penned upon his sick bed. He began his teaching work in Ontario, the birthplace of his friend, Mr. James J. Hill, and twenty-five years ago he came here to take his place as a leading authority on agriculture in the Northwest. He had the confidence of the great and the small. As author, editor, professor in the Minnesota Agricultural College and ag- ricultural expert for the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads, as lecturer and guide, he has influenced the whole Noth- west as few men have been permitted to do in the same way. Rut it is net of this great and important side of his life work, vastly important as it is, that I would call your attention in this service of memorial. It is something better, • thing greater. As Ins pastor and friend, I want to emphasize that which he always emphasized under every condition, his re- ligious life and work. The Church of Jesus Christ was to him Cod's groai means for winning the world from sin to redemption. MACALESTER COLLEGE BULLETIN To the Church he gave his choicest thought. Jjl he Church he gave unsparingly of his tin:e, ability, means and service. For twen- ty-tree years he has been a ruling elder in the Central Presbyterian Church. Dr. Mel- drum said of him that he was one of the most remarkable men that he ever knew in a session; and I can bear testimony after eleven years of close companionship with him that this is now true. He loved the Bible. It was to him the Word of God. He knew it as few men knew it. He studied it as few 'men studied it. He taught it with a vigor, and freshness and unction that few men have brought to its teachings. For many years he has con- ducted the Bible class, and he made it known far and wide as a place of sane, pow- erful presentation of the inspired Book. One message I would bring to you, a mes- sage he himself uttered at the Fiftieth An- niversary of Central Chtirch. "Here is what a layman can do. He can give of his gifts to Christ. I do not speak of money gifts now r . -I speak of gifts that are of far more value than any money gifts, and that almost anyone can give. Think of it. Work that the angels of heaven would gladly come down and do if God commis- sioned them. That work is within your reach." In these words we reach the moving pow- er of his whole life. Among the books he has left behind as a product of his ability and toil is one that he himself prized beyond all his other work, "Polishing Gems"— a work that sums up his religious ideals and experiences. Let me bring to you from him the closing message. It will cheer and comfort you. "Oh the height, and the depth, and the length, and the breadth of the tenderness of that bond which still binds the living to the dead. Shall we not praise God that it is so? Is it not evidence of the imperishable nature of the chain or better still is it not an evidence of the imperishable nature of the chain that binds the living here and those who have gone to live in the land of over there? Let those who will cherish the cDmforter's belief that this life tells the whole story, ours shall be a faith that cher- ishes the conviction that life here is but the vestibule of the imperishable eclipse be- yond." 1 Macalester Men in Service Macalester's part in the great world war is shown by the following table: Army Capt. Infantry 1 Artillery and Ordnance 1 Cavalry Signal Corps tank Medical and Hospital 4 Aviation 2 Engineer l Lieut. Sergeant Corp. Private 19 13 2 45 6 3 .. 5 1 2 .. "i 1 .. 1 4 5 l 19 5 1 .. 11 114 7 Total 80 15 1 5 2 33 19 14 Marines Regular. Aviation' 2 169 19 3 Navy Regular. Aviation Hospital Ensign 2 31 10 3 21 33 10 3 Nurses. . . . Chaplains. V. M. C. A. Civilian . . 46 3 2 5 Army Marines Navy Miscellaneous 169 21 46 18 Total , 254 3 0112 105876384 MACALESTER. COLLEGE BULLETIN PROFESSOR THOMAS SHAW Elected member of Board of Trustees 1898 President of Board of Trustees from 1901 to June 12, I918, when he was made President Emeritus