Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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Summer has sunk us and we !i« I nder the heaps and mounds of mas. Petals like penee upon our eyes. Lungs stopped with leaves, yet while we drown mong the weeds and twines of hay, Vmong the hulks and wrec ks of May. We hear above our going down The rhoirschool blac kbirds high and dr . ( .banting no Dirifip, but ey- Xonnv-nonnr above the may- corks. the tree tops, tlu always falling skv. 7 Joyce Homer. ”Wei June: Kngland

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 Improving international understanding: Foreign Students' Night “In that tradition, then, let me suggest that all members of the College Commu- nity join with me in trying to look ahead, in seeking to discern the future needs of society, and in orienting the College to help fulfill them. This requires a joint ef- fort of self-examination, with one eye on what we are doing here at Mount llol- oke. and one eye on its relevance to the needs of society. Convocation Address, Sept. 22, 1957 . The Mount Holyoke tradition, as I understand it. is neither vegetable nor crackpot; neither stagnant nor muddied.' It is, as good tradition always is. the dis- tillation of enduring values, tested by time, the continuance of that which is proven good, tin rejection of that which is not good, and the constant rc-cxamina- lion. retesting and reassessment, of it-» values. “There i one aspect of tin Mount Hol- yoke tradition which, in this one hundred twenty-first year of the College, merits our especial attention as we start a new year and a new administration. It is an old idea, which, in essence, is always new. ‘ Here it is: More than anything else, it i the Mount Holyoke College tradition to be ahead of its times. Too often one thinks of tradition onl m as a form of looking backward. This our College can do. and with vast pride. But every time we look backward, at the great names o! those who shaped the destinies of the College, we find individuals whose principal characteristic was that they looked forward, farther forward than their contemporaries. They were quiet revolu- tionaries. who sensed a social need and anticipated, through the College, the ful- fillment of that need. »

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President and Mrs. Get tell. Dr and Mrs. Eliot .. Perhaps we need less emphasis on the departmental major as a stepping stone to graduate work, and more on fostering the proeess of learning and developing the art of thinking. hat we need, above all. is an intellectual experience in college that will carry through all the years, and provide tin foundation for a life of continuing growth and enrichment. College work should never he conceived nor presented to the student as a terminal experience, nor as an escape or retreat from the larger world hevond the campus. Nor should it be assumed for all women, as it can be for men. that college training is the prelimi- nary step towards an uninterrupted ca- reer . . . The uncommon woman has much to offer. I f some of our institutions of high- er learning can help her develop to the fullest, and if our society will learn how to make the most of her. she need no longer he under-utilized. She will heroine, in truth, the 'cornerstone' dreamed of by- Mary Lyon . . I hr Prrsidrnt's Inaugural Address 8