Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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They occupy t he working minutes of our lives at Duke. In their classrooms we learn the accumulated knowledge of the ages. West Duke, Carr, Social Science, Divinity, and Gray, are signposts along our road to wisdom. Across from its twin, West Duke in all its gray brick splendor guards the entrance to the Women ' s Campus. Carr bustles with activity when the bell rings between classes; its halls are polished by a multitude of feet every day. On West, next to the new, rapidly rising administration building is time honored Social Science, where classes are carried on in a battle with carpenters and bulldozers for su- premacy of the sound waves. Together, Divinity and Gray are on the right of the Chapel, sometimes resting beneath its shadow. These are Duke ' s centers of Liberal Arts, her strongholds of the humanities. WEST DUKE on East Campus contains classrooms, offices for English, philosophy, history, psychology departments. CARR BUILDING, East Campus, contains classrooms for SOCIAL SCIENCE, predecessor to new Physics Building, liberal arts courses, offices for language departments. holds economics and sociology departments, ROTC units. IN GRAY AND DIVINITY BUILDINGS ARE SCHOOL OF RELIGION OFFICES, CLASSROOMS, WDBS STUDIOS. mmkm m

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. ' ■ -4 -.;»ri«- :m n I i •!»•••» jAiS l.it)cral rts The haunt of the patrons of the finer things o hfe, Asbury is set apart from the main quadrangh of East campus. Headquarters of the Aesthetics, Art, and Music Departments, this gracefu old building is a symbol of the fine arts. Two of the thousands of feet that daily cross th doorsill may be those of a future Picasso or of an aspiring young Toscanini. In the classroom: are piles of frayed scores and even more frayed instrument cases. Trills and arpeggios echo through the listening halls, in spite of the soundproof practia rooms in the basement. Enthralled students cluster around a phonograph, listening t( records from the extensive music library. Pictures are displayed on the walls. Here Duk( endeavors to train talent in the fine arts, and here it displays the fruits of its endeavors

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HOW DREAMS ARE RORN Liberal Arts expose us to ideas and ideals of world Life is built on dreams and hopes. It is built on the ideals that spring from the seeds of thought. The thoughts of men living now — or ten, or thirty, or three hundred years ago. It is built on the ideals of men that believed in a god, men that believed in an idea. It is the realization of one ' s own thoughts and one ' s own ideals. It is the acceptance or rejection of new and contradictory ideals. When students come to college many of them are able, for the first time, to throw off the swaddling- clothed ideals that have bound them since they were born. They learn the meaning of the word think, and they begin to look for the whys and wherefores of their own objectives and ideals, and they find out why others differ from them. Through literature, and through philosophy and religion they can sec where some of their ideals originated and why they originated. They learn the meanings behind their own beliefs and those of others. They learn to understand and to tolerate, to accept and reject according to their own interpretation of knowledge. RADIO BROADCASTING class, under Professor Weth- erby (right), gets experience before the mike in WDBS. COLLEGIATE COUPLE further their liberal education in Chinese Room on second floor of East Campus Library. DEPARTMENT CHAIRMEN (from left): C. Vollmer, Professor of German; R. S. Rankin, Professor of Political Science; B. R. Jordan, Professor of Romance Languages; K. E. Gilbert, Professor of Aesthetics, Art, Music.