Illinois Wesleyan University - Wesleyana Yearbook (Bloomington, IL)

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.lerry Stone, LL.B., University of Oklahoma, Ph.D., Northwestern University . . . Chairman of the Division of Humanities. THE DIVISIO OFH MA ITIE The term humanities is derived from the Latin word humanitas. Classical man was aware of his humanness through participation in the insight, vision, and moral passion contained in the Graeco-Roman literary tradition. Today, the humanities include the art, literature, and languages of all cultures. The humanities share in the vision through which others have experienced life's meaning. The humanities strive to free man from the provincialism of his particular time and place. Indeed, the term uliberal arts means the discipline of those skills which bring increased freedom fliberalsl. In our Humanities Division each department seeks through its particular skills to help develop freer men. The separate divisions at Illinois Wesleyan reflect the various contents and meth- odologies of the academic disciplines. The controlled methods of the natural sciences and the tools of the social sciences also afford a deeper understanding of our human situation. The humanities respect the role these disciplines play in setting men free. Nevertheless, the humanities insist that the humanness of man is not fully understood through any one methodological approach. Humanitas is not reducible to a particular sociological, psychological, or scientific interpretation. Although divisional structures are helpful, they remain somewhat arbitrary. Vision and imagination are present in the scientific method QEinstein-Polanyi-Schillingl. The significantly Nhumanv cannot be divorced from the political, sociological, and economic dimensions of life. K For Aristotle, man is a political animal.l Inter-divisional dialogue, aware of the proper differences between methodologies, should also explore the common structure of knowledge shared by all disciplines.

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l 'wss-'-,,,.wqr Gregg C. Gardner, M.B.A., Bradley University Y ,, M., Oliver Luerssen, M.B.A., University of Chicago . . . Business. . . . Business. Dennis LaVigne, M.A., Miami University . . . Economics. I-. i Donald Snyder, M.A., Miami University . . . Donald Strand, Ph.D., University of Economics. Minnesota . . . Insurance.

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Randell Barnett, M.A., Kent State Uni- versity . . . English. v--1-1--.--E?--.,.. , Y Larry Goldberg, M.A., Indiana University . . . English. I J E Jiri? ku, 0 James McGowan, Ph.D., Rutgers Uni- versity . . . English. 1' 1a?-.s,, I Harvey Beutner, Ph.D., Northwestern Uni- versity . . . English. 15. K .,,.5: Harold Hungerford, Ph.D., University of California at Berkley . . . English. E I, Joseph Meyers, M.A., Princeton University . . . English. ul? Robert Burda, M.A., San Francisco State College . . . English. 43' David K. Jackson, M.A., University of Wisconsin . . . English. s-'W Justus Pearson, Ph.D., Columbia Uni- versity . . . English.