Lawrence University - Ariel Yearbook (Appleton, WI)

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'me VIKING ARIEL ww ' fillw wmwmdllm- x . X NIARGUERITE Woonwouru Dean of Women A small college is uniquely able to create an atmosphere which is rich in the intellec- tual, spiritual and aesthetic values which each of us wishes to realize individually. Un- hampered by the number of centrifugal forces which enter into life in a large university, we live in an environment which is selective. We do not have all the music there is, but we have the best that the world offers. We have few pictures in our dormitories but those few are by the masters. If our social contacts are limited, we are able to enter into more meaningful and genuine relationships with our fellows. Intimacy with each other, as teachers and students, gives stimulus to intellectual activity, and makes for a better under- standing of our mutual efforts toward self-realization. In the small college we may experience many direct personal appreciations of art, of persons, of organizations, of the things of the spirit and of the mind. These appreciations lead to the development of standards which are adopted not because they are conventional, nor because they are considered earmarks of culture, but because they are personally known to be of worth. If we allow to enter into our environment at Lawrence only the best things, we may not only mature our intellectual powers, but we may in the process acquire a sense for beauty and a sense for conduct. MARGUERITE Woonwonrn Page.19

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'Th -1mrH51 ' MID e VIKING ARIEL 1-nw J s DR. HENRY RQERRITT XVRISTON President of Lawrence College College is more than the curriculum and its studies 5 it is more than activities,- athletic, dramatic, musical, or other. College is four years of life in a unique society- in circumstances conditioned, consciously, to be different from the life of the Workaday world, yet withal, sampling the situations that must later he met. So college opens the Way to intellectual enlightenment, to social experience, to finan- cial and economic responsibility, to the development of aesthetic taste, to character growth. It is a controlled experiment in the art of living. V To be effective it must be Varied-for life is a jewel of many facets, its cuttings are complicated. It is not wholly a record of triumphs and achievements, or joys and pleas- ures. If it Were, it would not he valid experience. This record, like most data for history, is not complete. Each who reads it must supply parts that will never be known to others-for him they will be essential, but not for all. But here is the broad outline, and many enlivening details of trial life , which is college. ' HENRY M. WRISTON Pagei18

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'The VIKING ARIEL ww 5 s --mrmmwmnimmpl muy l Dr. W. S. Naylor Unity is as Vital a principle for a campus as for a nation. The interest, the welfare, the success, of students and faculty are one. We are an indivisible unit in the purposes, programs, and results of campus life. Our division into faculty and students is only super- ficial, that the more experienced may guide the less experienced into fruitful lines of application and endeavor, but both are headed for the same goal-the good-of-all. Any diversion from the path that leads to that goal is in that measure the wreck of the good-of- all. Any sentiment, any movement coming either from the more or less experienced that separates our total corporate body is destructive and subversive of the most vital interest and achievements of all. One cannot undermine the house he lives in without serious personal danger to himself as well as to those who live W th him. We are one, students and faculty, that is, We are all students in the great problems of life, only with slightly different relations of time, experience, depth of thought, and degrees of solution to those problems. We stand or fall together. Any action, any word, any sentiment, given expression, that discounts the integrity or worth of either integral part of this unity is a thrust at the very life of our Alma Mater, and discounts that much the value of belonging to such an institution and undermines the future value of degrees from or in connection with it. We stand together or we hang separately. It is to the highest interests of all to promote the interests of each. A blow at the other is a knock-out for self. Don' t knock. Boost! VVILSON S. NIXYLOR Dean of the College Page 20