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CORNUCOPIA 1972 DELAWARE VALLEY COLLEGE DOYLESTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
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DELAWARE VALLEY COLLEGE To the Incoming Freshman Class of 1972 Sunday, September 15, 1968 James Work Members of the Freshman Class, Parents of the Freshmen and Members of the Faculty and Staff, I see I am on the program to extend a welcome to all of you and I want to do that first, then I want to make a few remarks. I know that you freshmen will be loaded up with plenty of information and advice in the next few days around here, so I shall touch on only a few subjects that are of interest, not only to you mcoming students, but, also to you parents. There are points in which I feel every parent should take a deep interest, because your sons are going to find that without your support in the right manner they will have a tough time breaking away from their mother ' s apron strings and going away to college. And very often we find that the mistakes of the boys are due to poor advice that they have gotten from their parents, par- ticularly in respect to several matters upon which I would like to touch. In the first place, we are here, the College is here, to educate the students, to guide you, to help you in every way that we can. To this, our faculty is dedicated. In many colleges the faculty is dedicated to research work, to writing books, or they ' re active as political and educational consultants. Around here our faculty is here for one reason, to teach. We have some research projects, but only those in which the student is involved. And we feel that the graduate is the end as far as this institution is concerned, and the building program, the faculty, the administration, and everything that you see around you is simply the means to the end, and that is to turn out a good graduate. Secondly, we insist on good behavior and good citizenship, and we attain these ends through the cooperation of the student government. So, we expect every student to support the student government. We wish to maintain the best of communications between the faculty and the administration and the student government, and through the student gov- ernment with the student body. Now, naturally we require certain academic standards. You only have four years here. We assume that you came here for an education and these four years are going to pass only too quickly. So, we hope that you take advantage of every day and every week and every month in these four years. And the next point in which you parents are interested is that we, at the College subscribe to the philosophy of in loco parentis. In other words, the College, within our ability and within our limitations, takes the part of the parents while your boy is away from home. Many colleges, and few right near us, I am sure you read the papers last week about one of our biggest universities in Philadelphia, have departed from this philosophy entirely. And they feel that a boy comes into this college, or any other college at the age of 18, fully capable of handling all of life ' s problems . They take no respon- sibility for his behaviour or for his actions outside of the classroom. We feel that we should take that responsiblity . This is a very old fashioned viewpoint. But, many of the things which we do around here, and which we insist upon, are proba- bly considered old fashioned by what is known as the new left or the liberals in education. I believe that one of the things that you parents want to know, and that I walways wanted to know as a parent, is where is my child? Where is he tonight? And today there are too many parents who do not know where their children are, and who care less. While the boys are here we expect them to conform to all of our rules. We expect to know where they are most of the time, and we expect you parents to help us in this program .
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