The Record of the Hampden-Sydney Alumni Association, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Record of the Hampden-Sydney Alumni Association, Vol. 1: April, 1927She openly proclaims that she' is a Christian college and she proudly displays her banner as such to the scholastic world. Her President and her Trustees believe in intel lectual freedom, but in the selection of her professors they wisely discriminate between freedom and license. They be lieve that it is verily the truth that makes men free, but they believe that the Word is the Truth at hampden-sidney, and no man may become a member of the faculty who does not subscribe to this doctrine.The President and Faculty of hampden-sidney believe that it is within the province of Christian education to make men lovers and searchers after truth, that the Christian3 col lege must be a place where truth all truth, must feel at home and have supreme authority. Hampden-sidney has no quarrel with science, when science confines herself to the truth, but She never accepts a theory or an hypothesis of science falsely so called when it con¿icts with a thus saith the Lord.But, gentlemen of the Board, hampden-sidney is now facing one of the most serious experiences in her history. Her lecture halls are overcrowded, her dormitories are over flowing and her professors are overburdened with work. Increasingly larger numbers of students are applying for matriculation. We have no money with which to supply our needs, and we dare not close our doors to the boys who are knocking for admittance. We cannot stand Still, we must either go forward or go backward. The church and the college look to this body of men to find a way out.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.