Chatham College - Cornerstone Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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DEDICATION During the last several years, a great deal of time and effort on the part of both professional educators and the critics of American education has been de- voted to the task of re-evaluating the educational sys- tem and its philosophy. The impetus has arisen from many directions, all of which point to the fact that we have been forced into a heightened awareness of the shortcomings of oin ' institutions and into making an intensified effort to improve them. The techniques and philosophies which may be adopted to resolve the crisis cannot help but cause students to re-evaluate their own goals and the aims of a liberal arts edu- cation. The colleges have been compelled to empha- size to their students that the purpose for going to college is not to fill up four years of space or to comply with a family tradition, but rather to learn how to learn, how to understand, and how to tind the answers that a new generation of educated adults will be expected to find. For each individual the personal goal may be somewhat different, but the unifying factor should be the end to which a liberal arts education is dedicated. To pmsiie knowledge in a liberal arts school is not to learn a particular trade or tc become expert in some specific field. To expect this is to expect something far from the goals of this kind of institution. Rather, it is to ]:)in-sue a way of life — a manner of thinking which leads the in- dividual concerned to a more complete and workable way of coping with a constantly changing world. For the graduate of a liberal arts college, learn- ing should not end with the receiving of a diploma. Throughout life there should be a growing enthusiasm for the continuous sense of disco ' ery and the satisfac- tion of knowledge. The liberally educated person has been given the foundation, and it is an individual re- sponsibility to Ijuild upon it. Therefore, we dedicate the 1959 CORNERSTONE to you who are most committed to the pursiut and commimication of knowledge . . . The Faculty.

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E:ich tall, cars coiuainin;, iicsh- iiKii viiul tluii a uj) Wdotllaml Road loatlcd with the luccssiiifs lor living at Chatham. Excittil and apprehensive, Ireshnien meet tluii Big Sisters, student (onnsellnrs anti one or assorted rooniates in the s]jace ol a few miniites. Harrasscd lathers luiload sets ol kiggage, kitchen e(|iii|)nient, hi-li ' s and hula hoops while worried niotliers lon- teniplate the si e ol the tlostts. Finally, exploration ol the campus begins, freshmen receive their dinks anil Avith a tea at Mellon, the vear Ijc-L ' ins.