Clemson University - Taps Yearbook (Clemson, SC)

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ADMINISTRATION

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THE TIE THAT BINDS, the common brotherhood of edu- cated men, the fraternity of in- telligence, has not been lost by the introduction into colleges of a wide and varied curriculum. In earlier days all college graduates had taken the same subjects; all had studied the classics and moral philosophy. The classic allu- sions in the orations of Burke and Webster were understood by their readers. Milton ' s work on freedom of the press he called the Areopagitica — a word understood then but not used now. Science has supplanted the classics and some feel that college men no longer possess the unit} ' of the former generation. Today there are technical, vocational, and professional colleges, and inde- pendent schools in the same college or university. The students in one school may never come to I o( ii V. i iir Sim s, Ph. I )., LI. I) President COMMUNE VINCULUM know the students and teachers in the other schools. Neverthe- less, there still remains a unity on a different basis. The scientific method of approach to all prob- lems furnishes the common bond. Research, in- vestigation, observation, fact-finding, and inter- pretation make up the procedure of the educated modern. The result of this scientific method is that the sciences continually undergo changes, that most of our so-called history has to be re- written, that economic and governmental ma- chinery demands revision, and that even so con- servative a subject as Theology must be revised. The scientific method of investigation is the com- mune vinculum that unites all scholars today and supplies the common method of attacking all problems.