Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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2, T5-53-S NE ingredient of university life is the voluntary cooperation of those individuals who comprise it. There should be strong 5 QQ! bonds of friendship between faculty and students. A univer- sity must be such a unit, or it becomes the workings of automata, mere mechanisms, recording and being recorded. Yvhen such a mechanistic stage is attained, all semblance of individuality, of voluntary cooperation within a teleological concept becomes lost. The student no longer attends a university but a brainery', specializing in the output of formalized intellects. It is an unsmiling school indif- ferent to that sympathetic understanding which tempers the hearts of young men and Women. Unfortunately many institutions of higher learning cannot escape this indictment. Education is not a mere storing up of information. Education is the art of making living itself an art. It is a spiritual adventure, equipping one with a broad view of the many ways in which men have striven to create meaning and value out of the potentialities of human experience. To benefit the greatest number of people, regardless of race, creed, or color was one of the motivating forces of the founders of Boston University. The administration has struggled against great odds to create an all-University family feeling, but cooperation and coordination have been impeded by the lack of a campus, or focal point around which all university activities might be centered. One may wince occasionally at remnants of departmental provincialism, but the housing of all Departments on the new campus will, We trust, do away with petty animadversions. We hope not for tolerance which connotes condescension but for a more genuine departmental appre- ciation. It is appropriate to recall the words of President Marsh to the trustees of Boston University in his first annual report Wherein he declared that our Alma lNIater is not only greater than any of its parts, but greater even than the sum of them.

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N N and FIIRTY Portrayed on these two pages are those people and events which focused My warning to B. C. is- We'll be hard to beatl themselves upon the mind's eye in a quick glance over the past year. Selec- tions were made from the Administration, the Faculty, the Student Body, and in two or three instances from outside the University, but the devotion to Alma lllater of those in this latter category no one will question. All the individuals on these pages have contributed to the prestige of Boston Uni- versity during the years nineteen thirty-nine and forty and have made her name to shine with brilliant splendor in the intercollegiate world. l Theology Centennial Sargent College dancers for School of Medicine Fund Faculty procession at formal dedication of Hayden Memorial Co-ed Colonel Commands the Corps 1 I

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AIIMINISTRATIUN and FACULTY