Bates College - Mirror Yearbook (Lewiston, ME)

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and teacher alike, should be the educational ideal: men balanced with an enthu- siasm for life itself and a compassion for human frailty: men patient in the beautiful dullness of acquiring the facts and wise in the intelligent application of their ex- perience in their dealings with other meng men superior to. yet conscious of tragedy. who without Pollyana optimism can see beyond immediate disaster to the wonder of universal law: men who have l'9ilSOI12Il3l6 faiths and reasonable doubts and find the highest satisfaction in life to be a perpetual striving to understand God. Finally. whenever and wherever the college directly affects the state. it must take great care to serve the state wisely and well. With such an understanding Bates will not recommend to the field of public school teaching students whose college record reveals meagre background and whose interest in teaching is purely a matter of earning a living. For all practical purposes this world may run on a dog eat dog basis. Yet. if we, the student and the teacher, are more than mere hyprocrites who talk delightful theory, no man or woman will make an exodus from Bates into the teaching field upon thc sole recommendation that after certain courses in educa- tion plus the receipt of a diploma, our teaching bureau will secure graduates a job. Unfortunate is the falsehood retold on many campuses each Commencement. The college diploma does not signify an educated man: rather its significance lies in the hope that those receiving it go into the world with a love of truth. a sense of justice, a capacity for thorouglmess, and a desire to create the perfect and the beautiful. In these terms we deliver a year-book. Bates stands on the verge of a renaissance. Insofar as both students and professors will join hands in mutual contemplation of beauty. truth, and farsighted application of theory for the ulti- mate good of the state: we prophecy that Bates will have a place in contributing to man's understanding of man and his adjustment to his universe. Page iqliff'

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,XT 1: 5. FACYLTY T I5 THR purpose of the 1937 lfi1'1'm' to lllililltilill am intellectual tone: to uc-eeut the place of sc-llulzlrlv lnterests il Liberal Arts College in u ur society. To uid in this we have asked the 111e111t1e1's of thef ' 2lClllJlj' to answer one 0 t these two questimls. t1,bU'l1az' do you c'mz.v1'dc'r the 1.11001 Qf flu' I.I'lll'I'lIl -bl rfs C '01 I eye? QQ D U'l1f1f ix flu' I'lIl'IlH'Ij ezlllf-rife!! man? t Bates: illlfl tu establish the position of the