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Yale Ideals BY PRESIDENT HADLEV, OF YALE UNIVERSITY What are the things that Yale stands for? First and foremost, in com- mon with every other college and university worthy of the name, Yale stands for the pursuit of truth. Xo school or group of schools, however brilliant, would deserve to be called a university if it simply taught its students how to earn as large fees as possible in their several callings. It must in- spire them with a higher ideal and a deeper motive. It must make them crave to see things as they really are and to do things as they really ought to be done ; to make truth and right the objects of a man ' s effort, instead of sub- ordinating them to the pursuit of money, pleasure, or power. These are the ideas which underlie all good college teaching, in science and in history, in poetry and in philosophy, in morals and in religion. Yale also, in common with other universities, stands for breadth of culture ; for a wide view of life and of what life means. The man who goes to college has the leisure to know many kinds of men and to study many kinds of things. If he uses this leisure badly it results in mere dissipation, physical or mental as the case may be. But if he uses it rightly and in our American colleges the great majority of students are helped to use it rightly it means culture. Culture is essentially a power to enjoy the best things in life on as many different lines as possible, instead of confining our interests to a narrow range of things which are immediately before our eyes. Some of this power of enjoyment is learned in the class-room itself. ' Some is learned by 1 PRESIDENT RADLEY
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ACADEMIC COLLEGE CAMPUS independent reading and thinking. Some is learned by personal contact and con- versation with instructors and with fellow students. Some often a Very large part is learned in connection with the social and athletic activities of the student body. Any of these activities, when pursued in an honorable spirit, increases a boy ' s range of appreciation and enjoyment and tends to make him a broader man and a more cultivated gentleman. Finally, Yale stands for training in citizenship. It aims to prepare its students to be members of our American democracy. To a greater or less degree every college does this. Every man is a better citizen if he has learned to love the truth and to broaden his points of contact with life as a whole. But men may pursue the truth either separately or shoulder to shoulder with their fellows. Culture may be sought either by the individual for himself alone, or by the citizen for himself and those about him. Yale encourages a man to choose the second of these alternatives to do his thinking as a member of a community rather than as an isolated individual. This is the most distinct, if not the most important, lesson which Yale teaches her students. From the day when a boy comes to Yale as a Freshman, he is made to feel that he belongs to a closely knit commonwealth. He enters into a heritage of traditions and sentiments common to the students as a whole. He finds himself face to face with a body of public opinion which he is given his share in molding and to which he is expected to conform as far as his conscience and his abilities
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