Mary Washington College - Battlefield Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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Dr. Grellet C. Qimpson CHANCELLOR OF MARY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

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THE THEME 18 GET AT THE CHANCELLOR ' 8 CONVOCATION September 20, 1962: The Questing and the Questioning It will be tragic for our world ... to lose sight of or to submerge the concept of the college as a place of questing and questioning . . . where truth is pursued for no other reason than the love of truth and the beauty that emanates from the pursuit. September 19, 1963: The Intellectual Climate of a College An education liberates each of us ... to learn to know and respect complexity, to reckon with anx- iety, and profit from it — and to serve our day and our age in a manner that is for each of us — our finest hour! September 17, 1964: And That is Saying a Very Great Deal Instruction and the act of learning must awaken and develop the intellectual and the spiritual powers in the individual before he enters upon his chosen practical career, so that he may bring to that career the greatest possible assets of intelligence, resourcefulness, judgment, and character. September 16, 1965: Education: An Odyssey o-f Fascination and Excitement The experiment of knowing will be only partially valid for you, if you find only that part of Truth that has been, and can be, revealed by discovery — and if you miss part of the odyssey of fascination and excitement which concerns itself with the concept of Truth as creation and generation. It is not only desirable — it is essential for the future of our civilization that our educational oppor- tunities provide . . . Informed intellectuals, whose experiment in knov ing will be both discovery and creation — not one or the other — but both. You have a marvelous and wondrous odyssey before you in the years ahead — and I trust the journey will be as fascinating and as exciting as it was for Homer ' s Odysseus as he journeyed across the wine- dark sea.