Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

 - Class of 1964

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woman ' s college M. Maroarkt Bail, Ph.D., Dr. iur. Dean of the Woman ' s College Following are excerpts from an ad- dress by Dean M. Margaret Ball at the Honors Clonvocalion, September 30, 196.3. The Woman ' s College was estab- lished to facilitate the education of those students at Duke University who happened to be women — not to draw them out of the larger University community, but to give them the op- portunity to develop their several talents both within the smaller com- munity which is the College and within the larger one represented by the University. The College was created not with the thought of developing a different kind of education for women than for men, but of safeguarding equal access with men students to the University ' s best minds, while providing facilities designed to promote both the Intel- m El.I.KN H. llnc:KABKE, M.A. Dean of Undergraduate Instruction Jane Phii.pott, Ph.D. Associate Dean of Undergraduate Instruction lectual growth and the capacity for leadership of the women members of Duke ' s academic society. . . . As a center of extracurricular educa- tion, the Woman ' s College is, and should remain a place where Duke women, with or without the presence or concurrence of their peers at the other end of the bus line, may con- sider and take positions on matters of interest and importance either to themselves or to society at large — not with the thought that Duke women have the answer to all of society ' s problems, but that as women and schol- ars, they have a valid interest in both the problems and their solution. As an intellectual community, the Woman ' s College has operated, and will continue to operate on the assump- tion that the best road to education for most undergraduate women is through the study of the Liberal Arts. Not because knowledge of the Liberal Arts is a special responsibility of women in an age in which the nation ' s culture tends to be left more and more in their hands as potential or actual wives and mothers, but in the con- 20

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fantastically complex tradition of thought and experience, is able to bring out of it a new kind of basic insight about the nature of things. This is the precious simplicity of truly creative thought (and thought is, I suspect, an inadequate word for it); it is the clarity which comes only at the far edge of human accomplishment, but it exists. It is our greatest reminder that all the fragments of thought and experience which are the common ma- terial of our lives can be caught up in some one pattern of coherence, com- JdiiN N. Macdi.h., M.M.E. Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering pleteness and therefore — in the deepest sense of the word — sanity. This kind of sanity is a return to the root of things; most of us are allowed only glimpses of it; but the university must give constant testimony, and must be a constant witness, to its presence in our world . If the process of university life is a constant alternation between frontier and heartland, if the daily task of a university is the assimilation of knowl- edge into new patterns of order, then I suggest that its final, almost mystical obligation is to the recognition, and indeed the veneration, of significance itself. This is the sense in which a uni- versity is most truly a religious in- stitution; within and beyond the welter of experience, it testifies to coherent reality. And it testifies to that reality wherever it can be truly found. For us, the common distinctions be- tween the sciences and the arts, be- tween theology and engineering, be- come meaningless. We do not choose among a good poem, a great bridge, a brilliant equation, a conquered virus; as educated people we owe our respect to them all, and as members of the university community we owe our understanding to them all. From these qualities and loyalties of the university world flow all its prac- tical, public achievements, and all its relevance to our inner lives. The scholar and the student are at the universitv ' s Earl I. Brown II, Ph.D. Chairman of the Department of Civil Engi- neering Edward K. Kravhii.l, M.S.E. Assistant Dean of the College of Engineering heart, not just because our society depends upon educated people, but above all because human beings crv out for knowledge, order and insight. Our kind of education is not, then, just the means to life; it is a way of life. The whole universe is its prov- ince; but it is justified only by what it brings to pass within us. As we come to love equally the bright field of knowl- edge and the dark wood beyond our understanding, as we develop the courage to confess ignorance, and the modesty to articulate true learning, then we begin, not only to under- stand the university but to embody it. And this we must do, we who have the rare privilege of being here. It is the expectation put upon us all, and as I accept my share of responsibility this morning, I ask you to remember your own. For this brief moment of time, we are Duke University. May men say of us in years to come that, every man according to his talent, we made a place of wit, of wisdom, of high civilization and great service. 19



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viction that the Liberal Arts curriculum is the best yet developed both to ac- quaint students with the heritage of Western culture and to instill in them those disciplined habits of mind which can, and should, enable most persons subjected to it to come to grips with the problems which they will encounter in that portion of their lives that comes after College. . . . The present members of this College, whether students or administrators, have inherited from generations of Mary Grace Wilson, A.M. Dean of Undergraduate Women past Students and from the two dis- tinguished women who guided them — Dean Alice Baldwin and Dean Flor- ence Brinkley, a College with a fine tradition of excellence and intellectual leadership within the University. It is my present concern that this tradition shall both continue and be reinforced — that this College shall continue to be — not predominantly a geographical expression — but an open community of mind and spirit. . . . We shall continue to work on pro- grams of various kinds designed to enlarge the horizons of students living on this campus — perhaps in the form of resident scholars brought to live among us for a time; perhaps in the form, .so successfully employed in the past, of sponsoring symposia of interest to various an d sundry disciplines; per- haps in the form of student exchanges of one sort or another; perhaps in the form of other programs designed to bring .students into closer contact with people of other nations; perhaps in still other forms. . . . Holding fast to existing programs of proven value, then, we shall none- theless look for new ways of furthering our principal objectives, of realizing our intellectual potential. For we are a College in transition from the excellence that has been, and is, to the excellence that may be, if we — faculty, students. Administration — have the insight and will to achieve it. We are, after all, a Communily of Scholars. Lillian A. Lee, M.A. Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Women 21

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