Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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My greatest reward after thirty- eight years of teaching at Dart- mouth is the satisfaction that I will live in the memory of my stu- dents and that I have had a part in making their influence for goodness and wisdom felt in so- ciety, to the greater honor of themselves and Dartmouth Col- lege. A.L.P. C uc - ■ Jl When Aegis-bearing Athena appeared to the wily Odysseus, even he was startled. When the AEGIS ITSELF appeared in my office, I was alarmed. What is it ' s power and secret? All I know is the word of the poet-philosopher Rob- ert Graves: The Aegis is a goat-skin bag con- taining — a serpent. T.S.S. 15

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In a viable concept of liberal edu- cation there is no room for medi- ocre intellectual standards, and the best that the mind is capable of is only good enough. But there must be pleasure and proportion in our work, and more than lip service to such ideals of fullness and breadth as animated the Greeks. We nuist also train our minds to operate in a context of responsibility. Sheer intellect can be both joyless and insensate, in a word, inhuman. F.G.R. When the editors cant manage to write their own damned copy for the yearbook, things have gone too far. Dartmouth needs more men who can think for them- selves and women. T.K.L.