Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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That tlic founders of the school were well aware of this fact is well attested by this sentence writ on the isle ' s emblem, Non doctior sed meliore doctrina imbutus, that is to say, not more learned, but rather imbued with a better teachint . Here we may see a salutary distrust of all knowledge not grounded in righteous principles and a decent faith in the superiority of truth o cr falsehood. For that a teaching may be spoke of as lictter shews that the founders of tlie school would not agree that the divers belief and practices of mankind are all one, but would say with St. .Athanasius, that it is necessary to believe rightly in order to be saved.

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The isle asserts that it can instruct its inhabitants in the Liberal Arts, which among us means, as a great poet hath nobly expressed it, that which fits a man to perform jnstK-. skillfully, and magnani- mously all the offices both prixate and publick of Peace and War. Thus the mind must be trained diligently to grasp and rightly to judge the knowl- edge and accidents that may befall one in life, and the truest underpinning of such an education is the training of youth to know and live by a moral and religious doctrine. ■

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Yet in truth is the eentral principle informing the isle not a goal of righteous moral indoctrina- tion but on the contrary a continual and morbid concern with fact and empirical obserxation di- vorced from all moral religious judgment, and all this in the name of impartiality. Now leaving aside the obvious fallacy of this last, it is greatly to be regretted that the end effect of this way of think- ing is to o ' erturn the emblem of the isle so that it strives mightily that its students may be more learned but indeed tinted (or tainted) with no color of moral teaching, whether the better or the worse. 13