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THE CHOWANIAN, APRIL - MAY 1959 Physics And Chemistry Are Fields of Opportunities! Choose a Christian College? By JOSEPH GODWIN Dean of Men Gardner-Webb College What are the advantages to be gained by attending a Christian college? That is a question to be faced by boys and girls who con template college training and by their parents. In our Baptist colleges we teach math that is just as mathe matical, biology that is just as biological, English that is just as grammatical, chemistry that is just chemical, psychology that is just as psychological, and his tory that is just as historical as that in any other college or uni versity, regardless of size or con trol. In the academic realm we do not profess to do any better job at this than other colleges are doing. Baptists believe, however, that there is more to an education than learnmg facts. This is true regardless of the number of facts learned or the discipline in which they are learned. Facts are to an education what a foun dation is to a house; We have no education without them. But it should be remembered that one can hardly look at a founda tion only and clearly visualize tne completed superstructure. What are the elements of an education tnat our Baptist col leges give that are not always found in other colleges? Some say that it is a point of view—a perspective. Others say that it is a proper sense of values. What we are doing seems to embrace all 01 these, and we do it by teaching differences. We teach the difference be tween doing wrong and violating a law or a rule. We deny that doing wrong and getting caugnt are one. We teach in our Baptist colleges that there is a differ ence between being popular and being right. We also try to teach what that difference is. We teach the difference between going to school and get ting an education. There has al ways been a difference between these two, and that difference is aDout as great now as it has ever been. There is a difference between growing older and growing. Our day demands—and cries for— men and women who have grown in maturity, wisdom, judgment, patience, courage, and faith. Hu man beings of lesser qualities cannot perpetuate our culture and civilization in times like ours. We teach this difference in our Baptist colleges. There is a great difference between making money and be ing successful. A person can learn to do both. Also, he may be either a success or wealthy— either without the other. If total cultural and personality develop ment is one’s goal and he attains it, he is successful without too much wealth. If wealth alone is one’s goal, and if he is satisfied with that when he attains it, he is sealed in intellectual and mor al mediocrity, though he may be a multi-millionaire! There is a difference between price and value, also; and we teach that difference. We know that there is a differ ence between what is convincing and what is true. Hundreds of millions of people in Italy, Ger many, Russia, and China have discovered that difference too late. These critical days demand critical thought and critical ex amination. No point is ever “proved” anywhere except in the mind of him who is con vinced. In this mind, through honest, open-minded search and research the difference between convincing propaganda and truth can be known. We teach Him who is Truth in essence. No Christian nor American pagan would deny any other man the privilege of self-expression at the poin,t of conviction, but this freedom of speech does not remove the difference between expressing an opinion and mak ing a contribution. It is much easier to tallf than it is to say something'.. V?e want the differ ence recognized, and then we try to enable every student to do both. We, in our Baptist colleges, teach the difference between speed and direction. This is the age in which people knock them selves out hurrying to nowhere in order to have more time in which to be bored stiff! Speed is important. But speed in the wrong direction only hastens catastrophe or sorrow. The only safe direction for man or for nations is the direction of God’s Will. The speed is determined also by that same Will. He regu lates, not only the “what” and the “where,” but also the “when.” Thus we believe; and thus we teach in our Baptist colleges. Teaching these differences makes the difference between education and Christian educa tion.—Biblical Recorder OUTSTANDING — Named as an outstanding student by Mrs. Lillian Ross, professor in chemistry, Chusak Chavengaksongkram of Thialand carefully mixes chemicals to get just the correct amount of each for a desired formula. WHAT NEXT, PROFESSOR? - David Futrell, Chowan student from Ahoskie, appears to be studying a chemistry project given him by Professor Lillian Ross. From equipment such as David is using there has come some of man's progress through chemistry. By F. MILAN JOHNSON Chairman Science Dept. This is a day of increasing awareness of man’s physical universe. Physics presents a panorama through the study of mechanics, heat, sound, light, electricity, magnatism, and mod ern physics. Modern physics is a study of the atom, radioac tivity and similar topics. An ap preciation of the basic concepts in these areas helps one under stand and appreciate the tech nology and mechanization of our civilization as well as the pub licity given to rocketry and space travel. Enrollment in physics has steadily increased as the Science department doubled over the past four years. The new Green Science building with spacious rooms and adequate storage space has been one of our great est assets. Significant amounts of equipment have been added. Every effort is made to pro vide the greatest possible num ber of experiences in the various fields. Experiments are conducts ed singularly or in small groups. Students are encouraged to con duct experiments or projects on their own. Many times, labora tory equipment is available for these experiments. We look forward next year to an even greater enrollment in the Science department and an increased interest in physics ANOTHER HOW-COME — Energetic staff photographer becomes appalled at squirrel running up tree, shoots'this picture and calls it — yep — Freeway for a Squirrel. WORMY PROJECT — Harold Williams of Prince George, Va., draws a section of an earthworm as he sees it through the power ful microscope. Have you Registered for '59-60? CHEMISTRY By LILLIAN ROSS Professor in Science A student’s progress in Chem istry depends to a large extent on how well he masters the basic fundamentals. If the stu dent misses out on some of these, or if they are passed over too rapidly the student will not acquire this basic knowledge so essential to a later understand ing of the subject. The students have learned how to solve most types of chemical problems and how to complete and balance the equations for many general reactions. They have some appreciation of what is meant by the conditions under which a reaction takes place, and understand that many com mercially important reactions would not be called general re actions and would not generally take place, unless conditions had been specially adjusted to favor the course of the equilibrium in the desired direction. The students have improved greatly in their ability to apply their knowledge in the labora tory, although some have com plained that they do not under stand what they are doing. Of course is much harder to apply knowledge than it is to memo rize it. However a student’s ability to apply what he has learned is the real test of his learning, since a student who is an encyclopedia of information without the ability to apply any of it is not very useful. The Organic Chemistry stu dents have learned many gene ral reactions of various classes of compounds. In the labora tory they have learned most of the basic techniques of Organic Chemistry, and one student sep arated some components of chlo- rophyll by Chromatography which is one of the newer tech niques in Chemistry. They have learned to work on several ex periments at the same time and understand the mechanisms in volved in the reactions. They are now synthesizing some fair ly complex compounds and they expect to synthesize some in gredients of perfumes in the near future.
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