Syracuse University - Onondagan Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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COLLEGE

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Liberal Arts The College of Liberal Arts is the oldest college of the University. Its faculty has increased from five members who attended the first faculty meeting in 1871, to one hundred and eighty at present, while the student body has grown from four to one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. The aim of the College of Liberal Arts is to offer in- struction in each of the great fundamental divisions of learning — in History, Mathematics, Science, Philosophy, Philology. The method of approach differs from that of the professional college or the trade school. It at- tempts to stimulate intellectual curiosity and to satisfy this curiosity, to train the student in close and logical thinking, to teach him how to find information which he may need, and to make him feel at home in educated society. To derive the greatest benefit from the training of the college, the student must play the game fairly. He must be honest and painstaking. He must grow tolerant, even of his instructors, and must not magnify small inefficiencies or injustices until he becomes blind to the unselfish devotion with which most members of the faculty. perform their task. All young persons who have not made definite choice of a profes- sional career, who have at least moderate intellectual ability, and who are willing to take the time necessary for full development, will profit by a course in the College of Liberal Arts. ?K f? yA i u p t William P. Graham Acting Dean Business Administration Business was not so long ago thought of as merely the act of mak- ing profits out of buying and selling goods and services. Not infre- quently was business regarded as a game of mere luck. We no longer have such a notion of business. We now know that business has become a definite occupation, that luck plays no greater part in it than it plays in any other occupation, and that its success depends not upon a game of chance but fundamentally and in the main upon brains. Business has not only become a matter of the brain for the man who is engaged in it, but it has also become a vitalizing force to many other people. Our resources, our means of communication, our trans- portation between peoples, and our political and social organizations are all intimately and profoundly affected by the business occupation. The business man today must understand not only the physical conditions which surround his business, but also the social and political conditions. The conduct of such a business calls for men and women who can think broadly and who can hold a sure grasp of all the facts involved. Business has be- come a matter of brains; its practice has become a science; its administration has become a profes- sion. Charles L. Raper Dean Twenty-two