Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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H ... in a more dramatic sense than even drama itself. Webster defines an actor as a doer, and to act is to exert one ' s powers in a way to bring about an effect. The university, in ioto, conscientiously exerts its powers to bring about an exalted effect. As the Butler Board of Directors described it, the goal is that . . . the student will leave with a greater desire and capacity to work for the improvement of all mankind. Yet this actor never plays to anything but a one-man audience. He is as excellent an actor as each student permits him to be. His performance is an individualized one, styled somewhat closely to the one-man audience ' s tastes, but emphasizing the most sig- nificant areas of mankind ' s past experience. This actor ' s major roles are academic, social, and athletic. Butler University Indianapolis, Indiana

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The academic role which the university plays is its most important. The proficient actor must search the playwright ' s material, saturate him- self with the inherent perceptions, and constantly move towards the re- interpretations so vital for meaningful communication to his audience. So too must the university in its academic role face this exhaustive process, working not just on one playwright ' s effort, but rather on the vast litera- ture of all human knowledge, to communicate to its audience, the student. P. 10