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delightful period. It is served cafeteria style, each carrying a
tray and serving himself. Everyone speaks enthusiastically of the
splendid hot lunches being served, and we find we are able to serve
them (at cost, of course) for 20› to students, and 35› to faculty
and office staff.
One noon I had a man and wife, radio listeners visiting
the college, as my guests at lunch. On being introduced to Miss
Lucille Hoover, head of our music department, the wife exclaimed
that she was a music teacher in piano, and had studied at the
Chicago School of Music. Immediately they had a great deal in
common, because both Miss Hoover, and Mrs. Lucy H. Martin, our
librarian, have degrees from the Chicago School of Music. I
explained to our visitors that Miss Hoover had come to us from
Drake University, in Des Moines, where she was head of the
departments of piano and organ. And the Drake Conservatory, I
explained, is a top ranking conservatory in the middle-west.
"Yes," said Miss Hoover quickly, "Drake is a high ranking
university, but I have come to a BETTER college, Mr. Armstrong."
She said it sincerely, and I replied that I felt that was a very
high compliment for our college.
But that is the way ALL our professors and students feel.
In no university in the United States can you find professors of
higher standing, wider experience, or superior ability. True, from
a pure academic standpoint, probably any large university has
professors of just as high academic standing, and probably many
more of them---BUT, what every student at Ambassador realizes and
appreciates is that in none of these larger universities would he
be able to have, in his own classes, four, or five, such high
ranking professors as he has at Ambassador---and, even more
important, in none of them would he find the basic IDEALS and
Christian principles that form the very FOUNDATION of Ambassador
College---and in none of them would he receive the personal
attention and individual instruction given at Ambassador.
Yes, although our professors have been members of the
faculties of some of the highest-ranking and best known
universities in the United States, I have many times heard the
conviction expressed that Ambassador, tho one of the smallest, is
the finest and best college in the whole world! Well, it ought to
be---it's GOD'S OWN college!
PRESENT STATE OF GOD'S GREAT WORK
Now I must close this BULLETIN with a report on the state
of the work, and its urgent need at the moment.
I have told you before how the final cost of the
reconstruction and fire-proofing of the main college building rose
to three times the original estimate---to more than twice what we
were prepared for. The bill for the week or ten days prior to the
opening of college, alone, was in excess of $12,000---more than the
entire original estimate. I was only prepared to meet a part of
this. It simply overwhelmed us.