Davidson College - Quips and Cranks Yearbook (Davidson, NC)

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Amde. mm The paradoxical requirement for Davidson is that its academic life must not be academic. Courses which invol ' e only the written regurgitation of lecture notes plus perhaps a moderate belching of bland memorization without inter- pretation of outside sources for their successful completion stand little chance of being anything but academic— ad nauseam. David- son must carry out its announced dedication (D.C. Ref. Catalogue, 1964-65, p. 2) to setting no limits to the adventures of the mind. It must not destroy the eagerness for learning of an incoming fresh- man by offering him a maze of sterile facts and petty rules; it must instead challenge him to four years of argument through which he can grow by both win- niny and losing. Classes Editor Brown McCallum Faculty, Administration Editor IJuford Norman

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So cn ' oits arc taken in order that learning be more than Ufcless chiidgery. W ' c haw seminars wliich are supposed to oi x- us the closest personal contact with our professor. AntI c may find tliat tlicN can he |iicasurahlc, tiiat we can he inspired to pursue olm ' suddenly formeil interests usin oiH own abilities. Pajje Fourteen