Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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We are committed to providing gifted students with as gifted teachers as we can hnd, men of liberal and scholarly distinction, concerned to nurture the growth of young men in knowledge and wisdom, ememplifying the integrity, conviction, and generosity of gentlemen. XVc must support these teachers to the full, giving them the tools they need for reaching, and opportunities for their own growth as scholars and persons. We must give them full responsibility and freedom to teach, to think, and to speak as the judgment, the conscience, and the character for which they are hired may dictate. President Victor Butterfield, The Faith of a Liberal College

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Orientation is a challenge, and it should be. Those who sit in rapt attention will become Wesleyan's scholarsther contributions to the world of wisdom personified. Those who sleep will become her C+ gentlemen, rewarding the school in later years with rich endowments. Now they are all just Freshmen, with 700+ college boards and a National Merit semi-fmalist certificate under one arm, a long list of high school extra- curricular activities under the other, and a National Honor Society pin on their Chests.

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The faculty, both as a source of learning and as a catalyst in the learning process, must bear major responsibility for the quality of a Wesleyan education.