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

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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

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l I keep coming back to the view that philosophy is not an isolated, wholly ob- jective and impersonal activity, but rather a way of life--a commitment of the widest and deepest sort-whose ade- quacy is determined by how well it fulfills oneas need for self-expression. If, as I be- lieve, the aim of philosophy is self-knowl- edge and self-control, then philosophy must neither be separated from the other activities of life nor identified with any one of them. All our yearnings, religious and scientific as well as moral and aes- thetic, must be satisfied Q Richard Robin Q? gf 02? . l A LIBERAL EDUCATION-old as the Greeks, new as lun exploration-gives knowledge of the physical world . . . understan ing of man's relation to man . . . recognition of values wheth artistic or ethical Q l A LIBERAL EDUCATION is concerned with the specific achiev ments of the individual and with their proper use in the society which she is a part. The liberally educated person knows the excit ment of creativeness and the thrill of pushing back the barriers knowledge Q I A LIBERAL EDUCATION makes a demand upon the indivi ual to take an active part in the mainstream of life. A liberal educated person realizes that progress comes from the efforts of t individual to join the tested values of the past to the changing nee of the present Q Victoria Schu. ZA 24