Case Western Reserve University - Lux / Differential Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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ZjllCS7331llN'lllHlCGDNKi' 'X DR. ROBERT E. VINSON, D. D., LL. D., L. H. D. PRESIDENT OME time ago, addressing the students of Adelbert College, President Vinson spoke of the nature of higher education in America--its' origin in the cultural influence of the English university, modified later byfthe French tradition of public support, by the German tradition of specialization and regard for expansion of things known, by the development of denominational colleges educating leaders in the newer settlements, and by the forces inherent in American life. And he called. emphatic attention to the opportunities today challenging the social as well as physical sciences. Our own Western Reserve University, since its establishment as a college in 1826, has been a symbol of the growing civilization in this region, sprung from the Great Tradition of the Western World and modified. by the unique forces giving us our identity. An historian of our social life might not be badly fortihed if he pos- sessed the documents and catalogues of the University, and noted the growth: the nature and the year of organization of the hundreds upon hundreds of courses, of the numerous new departments, and of the several under-graduate, graduate, and professional schools and colleges instructing in the wide domains of the arts, sciences, and social sciences. But schools and departments are developed in terms of current needs. The con- stant factor in determining value is the quality of the graduates: their integrity, sanity, wisdom, social-consciousness, and cultural responses. President Thwing, at the close of The Anzerieeen eznei German Univermjf Cl928D, clearly aware of world-history of universities, wrote with conviction yet admonition for the future: Education, using the force and material of learning, will become a greater and greater power for human enlightenment, for the discipline of individual character, and for en- larging and enriching the mind of the race and of the races .... Especially neces- sary is the co-operative effort of every student, of every scholar, of every teacher and of every lover of men unto the attaining of this human and divine consum- mation. Lyon N. Rieloezrelson. WVIESTPIEIRN RESERVE U N JI VIE IR S I 'llf Y

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114933341 NTIIHICCDN SIDNEY S. WILSON HIOFC- WWIESTIEIRN TRIESIEIRWIE U N II VIE IRR S I T Y 5 WINFRED GEORGE LEUTN ER Western Reserve University, now that it is more than a century old, may appear to have grown intoa tem complcx institution. lt includes thirteen schools and colleges either directly operated by the University or afhliated with it, as are Adelbert College, the Cleveland School of Architecture and Cleveland College. In reality, howexcr, this xerv com plexity we regard as a source of strength, hee tuse each collcgc retains its own identityg its faculty is responsible solelx for the interests of that college and its students The students and faculty of each college are not lost in the mass hut function as well-knit independent groups in cooperatixe rel tttons mth all other groups of the University. Two buildings in a pathless orchard made the campus of 1884 and I was one of the fewer than a hundred students Todav as an ofiicer, I rejoice in the growth I have seen, our increased acreage, our line structures, our daily population of more than live thousand. Attendance costs are higher, much higher but the opportunities and quality of instruction haue risen ftr The lighter side of university life changes the least students i play the same pranks, enjoy the same pleasures they did in 1884,--'pleasures that in 1933 still seem delightful to me llut I observe one outstanding difference, the ohlective of the student today is not scholarship alone, but definite training for leadership and success.