title:
Berea Quarterly, 1910-05 (Volume 14, Extra Edition)
creator:
Berea College
subject:
Periodicals, 1895-1916
subject:
Pearsons, Daniel K. (Daniel Kimball), 1820-1912
description:
Berea Quarterly, May 1910, Volume 14, Extra Edition, RG 12.21, Berea College Archive; An address by Dr. Pearsons, information about Pearsons Hall, and four student addresses comprise the majority of this issue. (29 pages)
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Transcript: 20 THE BEREA QUARTERLY little, and there is opportunity for earning part of this. Besides we have the best teachers in the country, men and women, who are thoroughly in sympathy with the ideals of a Christian education. They are instructors of remarkable character, with pronounced teaching abilities; their salaries are small, they live simply and happily, and their work is their life. Thus the earnest students are getting all the training necessary for the upward climb in life. Our school is becoming increasingly popular with the mountain people, and is doing a work for them whose value to the country is beyond calculation. We believe Berea has a great future, and is in condition to do as good work as any school in the southland. Some one has said that the greatest thing a man can do with a fortune is to get rid of it and in some good way. And if Dr. Pearsons could go through the rugged counties of Kentucky's hills, he would see that his investments in Berea are increasing many fold. For some of the most ambitious boys and girls have made their way at Berea. Most of them plan to become teachers in the public schools; therefore they take a course in the normal department as soon as they are advanced enough for it, then go back to their home counties, and teach their brothers, sisters, and neighbors' children less fortunate than they, and thereby spread the christian influence of Berea college as a great power throughout the state. Not only do we congratulate Dr. Pearsons for what he has done for us; we most heartily thank him for one of the greatest gifts he has ever given any institution, and we do no think there is anything that would bring him more joy than to bathe his face and quench his thirst in the pure rivulet that from the hilltops five miles away comes bursting forth in living springs upon our campus. ADDRESSES BY STUDENTS 21 Berea situated upon a shale ridge two miles long, with an elevation of eighty feet above the fertile blue grass plain, has always had a serious time obtaining water, want of which has been a great menace to the community. As this pure spring water comes bubbling into our buildings, we can but think of Moses when he smote the rock and the waters gushed forth. For it not only brings cleanliness and health of body, but cleanliness and vigor of life. It serves our buildings as protection from fire; it also protects the inhabitants of our town and school from the dreaded typhoid fever. Each year the number of students is rapidly increasing. Berea college, by these generous gifts, is inviting mountain people of Scotch-Irish blood, with large families of children to come and drink of its fountain of knowledge. The progress of the South has reached a point of great interest, and the work of Berea college for Kentucky in the next decade will be of utmost importance. James Russell Lowell said "That once to every man and nation comes the chance to decide between right and wrong," and Berea is helping the Kentucky boys and girls to decide for the right. The doors of opportunity which have been "slammed" in the faces of Kentucky's children are now opened wide. Interest is aroused. Kentucky is awaking. The lamp of hope burns brightly. The influence of Berea college is saving the Kentuckians from corrupting influences and is helping them to re-enforce the best elements of the state. On behalf of the student body of Berea college let me say that we appreciate the helping hand of Dr. Pearsons for right here in this school he has a work richly deserving his time and money in the army of young men and women gathered for an education.
description:
Original Size: 9x7 in
publisher:
Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College
contributor:
Pearsons, Daniel K. (Daniel Kimball), 1820-1912
contributor:
Barton, William Eleazar, 1861-1930
contributor:
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
contributor:
Harrison, May
contributor:
Henry, Herbert Lee
contributor:
Patin, Ralph Barthey
contributor:
Washburn, Lillian Cuthbert Chrisman, 1884-
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date:
1910-05
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type:
application/pdf
format:
pdf
identifier:
BC-1221-May1910
identifier:
identifier:
2623.pdf
source:
Berea College Records: RG 12/12.21: The Berea Quarterly. Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Berea, Ky
language:
en
relation:
Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College
coverage:
Berea (Ky)
coverage:
Berea College
rights:
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