. Highland Echo 1915-1925. BLUE RIDGE AND THE AVERAGE STUDENT Nobody doubts that members ofthe Y Cabinets, future AssociationSecretaries, and all others of theirlike should go to Blue Ridge. Thisis taken for granted, just as it isassumed that teachers will attendnormal school and Sky Pilots theSeminary. But what of the averagestudent, prej)aring at Maryville forjjiofessional or business life— of•what value will ten days at thesummer conference be to him?There must b(> some good reason to(iiaw hundreds of students fromcolleges all (Aei the South—regard-less of their present or future con-nec
. Highland Echo 1915-1925. BLUE RIDGE AND THE AVERAGE STUDENT Nobody doubts that members ofthe Y Cabinets, future AssociationSecretaries, and all others of theirlike should go to Blue Ridge. Thisis taken for granted, just as it isassumed that teachers will attendnormal school and Sky Pilots theSeminary. But what of the averagestudent, prej)aring at Maryville forjjiofessional or business life— of•what value will ten days at thesummer conference be to him?There must b(> some good reason to(iiaw hundreds of students fromcolleges all (Aei the South—regard-less of their present or future con-nection with Association woik, andin spite cf time lost from summermoney-making-- to swell the lanksof these conferences year afteryear. It would seem thai the result oftile attraction of lUue Ridge fortlieni is two-fold. In the first placethey turn to the summer thoy find it to be the gather-ing place of the cream of The men and wonu n withvision and ideas—the students oftoday
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