COLLEGE

THE LIBERAL ARTS

A student reared on deficient spiritual
and intellectual diet is an easy prey for
proponents of the totalitarian view, If
his skills only are developed and his
mind filled only with technical informa=
tion, he will know nothing of man's emo~
tional history or his practical experi-
ence as a gregarious animal, Not realiz~
ing the profound truth of Pascal's saying
that human nature is both the glory and
the scandal of the universe, he will tend
+o the extremes of blind utopianism or
bitter cynicism, His development as a
free man is crippled,

The ideal educational process should ins
clude at each level of maturity some cone
tinuing contact with those problems of
human nature and human destiny which man
has assembled under the headings of lit
erature, history, and philosophy, The
student in high school, in college, and
in graduate school should be concerned,
in part at least, with the words "right”
and “wrong” in both the ethical and math=
ematical sense,

Unless he feels the importance of thosé
general ideas which have been a deep-mov-—
ing force in the lives of men, he runs the
risk of partial blindness, Unless he has
been concerned with evaluating human
thoughts and actions, he will not under-
stand the essential dignity of man, He
will, therefore, fail in his comprehene
sions of the real basis of American dem-
ocracy3; he does not understand the cause
for which we fight,

~-President James Conant
Harvard University

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HERE IT IS AGAIN

Please have them in the office, if possi-~
ble, on Thursday, March ll, and not later
than Friday, March 12, Please remember
that green cards should be used for the
mid-semester reports of Freshmen and Soph-
omores and white cards for all others,
Thank you,

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NO MARCH FACULTY MEETING

We will not hold our usual monthly meet-
ing in March,

COMMUNICATIONS

March 6, 1943
PROFESSORS A AND B

Professor A is prompt and efficient in
his dealings w ith the College Office,
His class cards are sent in when they are
due, excessive absences are recorded and
reported as they should be, his mid-semes—
ter reports are in the office a day ear-
ly, withdrawal cards are signed and re--
turned the day he receives them, and the
grade on his final grade sheet agrees with.
the grade he reported on the withdsawal
card, Being human, he once in a great
while may overlook some detail, but the
word "business-like" comes to mind every
time we think of hin,

Professor B is tardy and inefficient in
most of his dealings with this office,
His class cards, due at the end of the
second week, are still safe in his pos-—
session, and they probably won't be sent
in till we call him up and ask for then.
Excessive absences are either not report
ed at all, or are reported several weeks
too late to allow us to do anything con—
structive with the student, Mid-semester
reports are usually a day to a week late,
The first withdrawal cards lie around his
desk till they are lost, so duplicates
and even triplicates must be sent hin,
and the record of withdrawals is cften
not recorded in his grade book, Being
human, he once in a while looks after one
of these matters. promptly, but the word
"unbusiness-like” comes to mind every time
we think of him,

They seem so different--these Prafessors

A and B, And they make us wehder, We won
der if they are just as different in plane
ning their courses, in their daily prepar-
ation, in their class presentation, in
their ohecking of each student's work, in
their entire job as teachers, We wonder

if their students, too, see these differ—
ences, and if they, like us, don't often

‘wonder about the relative efficiency of
Yes, it's time for the midesemester grades,

Professors A and By

A stinging nettle stings when touched
lightly, but it doesn't hurt when grasped
firmly, Professor A grasps these nettling
business details firmly, decides then,
gets them off his desk and then off his
mind, Professor B lets them lie around
his desk indefinitely, accidentally keeps
touching them lightly--and keeps getting
stung, He seems to enjoy their continued
tingling, Funny chap, he,

P.S. In spite of the above, Professor B
is a most interesting man who helps to
make a cracking good faculty,