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

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Because of what we are about, be- se of whom and what we work with, because of the place where we do it, accomplish much more than would be sible given only our limited individual nts. No wonder we come and stay Q H. Ve had better make certain, however, 1 we do not accept very much ap- Jse. And we had better work hard so t the college's capital stock, at the st, will remain intact Q Sarah S. Montgomery lla l If a man value anything above the gaining of Wis- dom, whether pleasure, virtue, freedom or peace of mind, he will suiely lose it. It is the privilege of man that he can possess knowledge, and his good fortune that in seeking it he can find his greatest happiness. Although rare because remarkably difficult, the noblest gift you can give your children is the love of knowledge and its pursuit Q Roger Holmes df 7'iL5r.1.L.f' MW-if!

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l The 127th year of Mount Holyoke College, known in the outside world as 1963-1964, will I am sure be remembered by everyone at Mount Holyoke as the year of The New Curriculumf' Actually the changes in the curriculum which were put into effect in 1963 do not add up to a new curriculum. Mount Holyoke's fun- damental ideas about a liberal education were not changed, but certain procedures and structures were altered, we hope to the advantage of students and fac- ulty members. The new sorts of introductory courses are meant to provide greater continuity between sec- ondary school and college, making it possible for stu- dents to meet the general education requirements by courses which are neither repetitive nor beyond their grasp. As to the shift from a live course program to a four course program, this was meant not to achieve an easier academic life for faculty members and students, but to provide everyone in the college with a less com- plicated pattern of life in which it would be possible to concentrate on and achieve a deeper understanding of fewer subjects at any one time. This has been only the first year of the experiment, but I hope that for every- one who can remember the 'gold daysf' it has proved to be more satisfying, and that for freshmen it has been a program into which they have been able to move with continued stimulus and reward lj Meribeth E. Cameron 20 QJMLJXE Qftwww

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l A Greek has said that Paideia, education, is an adornment to prosperous, a refuge to the unfortunate, this is a truism, but it res berates. A technical or professional degree is an ornament and as to the young and ambitious-but whether much of a refuge in ag adversity is less sure. Happily, however, the education many of have pursued here has been of a different, less practical, sort, it N appreciate in value hereafter both as a daily enhancement of 1 lives, and as a secret refuge and sanctuary until you die. It sho make you somewhat proof against boredom, loneliness, and er against hatred and envy, worst of human vices. May it move you delight in each day's modicum of knowledge, but stir sorrow for shortness of life which must make us abandon unsavored so muc the delectable unknown. Your Commencement will be a sober ini tion into the phratry of the liberally educated: those who are i afraid to see things as they really are, but still see them suffused w the intellectual light of what they ought to be lj Joseph McG. Botti Wana l g'Without inner psychological liberty, outer civil liberties are not enough. We c talk civil liberties, prosperity, democracy with the tongues of men and angels, bun is merely a case of free from what?W and not free for what? if we use tl freedom for no other purpose than to commit television or go lusting after supc markets. ln contrast with earlier eras, ever more colleges want to know: is t applicant well-adjusted, a good mixer, chock-full of leadership qualities? To ai student reckless enough to ask my unstreamlined advice, I can only growl: Your lady, why not for once have the moral courage to be unadjusted, a bad mixer, ai shockingly devoid of leadership qualities. No new trend and no bad trend would be involved if social adjustment w means, not end, that would still allow for ultimate spontaneity and personality. depersonalization characterizing the present trend is the goal of adjustment as end in itself. Thereupon the goal of adjustment, defensible and indeed indispensal as a social lubricant, becomes far more than that, it becomes the prime determir of human relationships, recreations, aesthetic tastes, and moral opinions. From being well-adjusted for its own sake, what a short step to becoming ov: adjusted: The public-relations personality of public smile, private blank. In effer an ecstacy of universal lobotomy. Unadjustedness seems the only personal herois left in a machine-era of which our great American novelist William Faulkner sai We all had better grieve for all people beneath a culture which holds any machi superior to any man. Cl Peter Vierep CThe Unadjusted Man. G. Putnam Sons, 196 kftaem Vfimza 22