Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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THE ATHENA PRESIDENT ELAIER BUKRITT BRVAX Doctor EluuT llurritt Bryan is rounding out his twenty-eighth year as a university administrator and his twelfth year as presi- dent of Ohio University. That tlie past year has been one of the most trying and difficult in the history of American education there can be no doubt. At Ohio University, however, the per- plexing problems of administration have been wisely and calml) ' met by a leader whose courage is sustained by a marvelously fine and comforting philosophy of life and education. All members of the campus community freeh ' acknowledge their indebtedness to him for the inspiration of his words and of his example. Under his leadership the University has enjoyed a large mate- rial growth and prosperity, but, what is even more gratifying to the friends of the institution, there have come, during the past decade, almost all of the high academic recogni tions that can be accorded .American universities and colleges. To this educational statesman, this rare friend and counselor of young men and young women, therefore, the students of Ohio University desire to pay sincere tribute. Parje eighteen

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THE ATHENA THE COLLEGE OE AETS AND SCIENCES The College of Arts and Sci- ences aims to give the student an acquaintance with the civil- ization of the past and the present, with the sciences that have made man the master of the earth and sky, with the things of nature and the nature of things, with the arts that feed the soul with beauty. A liberal education should free one from herd opinion, super- stition and fear, and should give one self-mastery, the pow- er of self-analysis, suspende d judgment, and urbanity. Thomas Huxley, years ago, gave a remarkably fine defini- tion of the liberally educated man : That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been, so trained in youth that his body is the ready ser- vant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is ca- pable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the an- chors of the mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who. no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience ; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to re- spect others as himself. It may be advisable for the student to defer the selection of his major inter- est until his junior year, for college life may well be a voyage of self-discovery. In this voyage of discovery the student may discover his limitations as well as his aptitudes and powers. The more one knows, the more wisely one may choose. Dean Edwin V. tts Chubii Page twenty