COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS NOTICE OF FACULTY MEETING The College Faculty will meet at 4:30 on Tuesday, February 23, in Fraser Theater, There will be some discussion of the sta- tus of the liberal arts college in Amer- jca during the war period, A large at-— tendance is desired, as it is highly imp portant that we thoughtfully face both the problems and the opportunities of these dayse * *£ * kk # CLASS CARDS Class cards are past due in this office, Tf you have not already done so, will you vlease return them at once so we can make the Glass rolls, * * * * % A DIFFICULT SEMESTER We can face our difficulties this semes— ter feeling sorry for ourselves, excusing ourselves and our students for second— rate endeavor and in general with a spir- it of listlessness, or discouragement, which will inevitably result in our doing a mediocre quality of work, If we permit such a spirit to dominate us, we are not worthy descendants of our fathers, who in every generation faced their own difficulties and mastered them, And certainly our own morale will not be high if we do not do our work with enthu- sinsm and with all the energy and devo- tion of which we sre capable, The things that war has done to colleges are done, We can view them, if we wish, as & series of unmitigated misfortunes, and sit down to bewail them. In this direction lie gloom, inertness, and un- manliness, God pity the colleges of America if this be our general feeling, On the other hand, these days may be a— mong the most interesting and the most beneficial to ovr colleges if we accept their challenge and look upon them as Siving us the opportunity to make a vale veble contribution to the winning of the war, and to develop a better and more worthwhile system of education, February 20, 1943 MID-SEMESTERS Mid-semester grades are due Friday, Maroh 12, In order to do the necessary office work with these reports on that weekend, every class report should be in if possi- ble before the twelfth, and certainly not later than that date. Your cooperation is earnestly requested, and we ask that you plan your quizzes so that you will have plenty of time to grade them and make your report very promptly. * *«£ tt %* # Iothink it can bevstated as aimost an historical truism that the greatest oiv— jlizgations of history have been the best educated civilizations, And when I speak ef education in this sense, I do not have in mind what so many today claim as edu- cation, namely, specinl training to do particular jobs, Clearly in a technolog— foal efe like ours, a great deal of train- ing is necessary. Some of us must learn how to be mechanics, some how to be arch iteots, or chemists, Some will have a special aptitude for medicine, And a great many will have--or think they have-- a mysterious talent which induces them to undertake the practice of law, But none of these specialties constitutes true education, They are training for skills by which men live, I am thinking, rather, of what we call the liberal arts, I am speaking of education for its own sake: to know for the sheer joy of under-— standing; to speculate, to analyze, to compare, and to. imagine. Look back across the panorama of history, Is 4t not true that the pinnacles of civ- jlization have been achieved by the cities and states most proficient in the liberal arts and occupations? In their contribu- tions to the enrichment of human life, the Greeks, I believe, tower above us all, Yet this is not because the Greeks were good navigators, which they were; nor because they were great architects, which indeed they were, It was rather because almost all their leaders--and many of their citi~ zens whose names we Go not know—-enjoyed knowledge and reverenced the arts, The Greek cities conquered the eastern Medi- terranean with the sword, But they con- quered posterity with their minds, --From a talk by Wendell L, Willkie delivered at Duke University