Lawrence University - Ariel Yearbook (Appleton, WI)

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711.2 VIKING ARIEL ww cm mnmmmvzm- , K Dr. R. C. Mullenix The position of Dean of Freshmen was created at Lawrence College in recognition of the existence of a difficult gap between high school and college and with a view to bridging that gap. Several distinct aims are constantly in mind in dealing with freshmen from the time when the prospective student makes his first request for information concerning the college to the time of his promotion to sophomore rank. The effort is made to bring to young people a realization and appreciation of their own powers and possibilities 5 to inspire them to an earnest purpose and a worthy ambition, to acquaint them with the aims and methods characteristic of college as distinguished from those of the high school, to aid them in adjusting themselves to the pace of college and to its standards of performance, to train them in systematic and thorough methods of study, and to develop in them a true sense of values-the power to discriminate between the fundamental and the incidental, the essential and the accessory. The Freshman Week program represents an intensive effort for the achievement of these aims. Throughout the year, however, by means of specially called meetings of the class as a whole, by means of personal interviews, and by such other devices as may from time to time suggest themselves, a constant effort is made to aid the freshman to adjust himself to the situation in which he finds himself, to discover and correct the causes of any lack of success on his part, and to measure up to the standard of achievement that has been set for him by his parents, by the college, and by himself. TTOLLIN C. MULLENLX Dean of Freshmen Page 21

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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

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