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

Page 26 text:

at 'H as ,L-fha' 'C if, 72 759115 Q ,., lf- I Q 5 I yt . if ' -.. '. 'ski' rw 0.

Page 25 text:

All human experience is cducatioii in soiiie sense. and a liberal arts education does not c:-:- clude the sorts of learning that derive directly from the process of living itself. lt differs from other varieties of education, however. because it places at its center the content of humane learn- ing and the spirit of systematic. disinterested inquiry. Its ultimate subject is humanityi the works. the acts of human beings. lt is therefore. first. an education in what we are and have been. and in the worlds we inhabit and have created: the worlds of thought and art. the social and phys- ical worlds. It is, further, an education in the means ofexploring those worlds and of creating new ones. Beyond this, it is an education that is evaluative, not merely factual and descriptive it emphasizes the necessity of critical judgment. of respect for the finest in human achievement. together with the beliefthat a sense ofthe finest carries with it a capacity and even an imperative to live and act according to its demands. The college is ideally a society of students and faculty collectively and consciously committed to these convictions: to discovering. exploring. and upholding them. It is a mllegizmz. a fellow- ship. with a proud but not prideful sense of its common purpose and ofthe values that govern its daily life. It brings together those who are serious but not solemn about learning. and hum- ble but not hopeless before the complexity of knowledge: those who want to know what is to be known. It is a fellowship whose members are gentle of spirit and tolerant of human failing. but maintain unrelenting hostility toward any de- struction of human dignity. Such a college tries to encourage in all its members and in all their modes of endeavor not only a respect but a zest for truth and excellence. It encourages the capacity to admire and pursue excellence with intensity but without arrogance. and with some compassion for all who encoun- ter the obstinacy of truth. As a society of those who have come to- gether for the sake of learning, the faculty and students profess and study those special arts of mind and spirit that they believe can free people - at least from ignorance. and perhaps from other poverties. The liberal arts are the arts ot thought. perception. and judgment. the arts that foster humanity and civility of spirit. and it is these arts that Mount Holyoke places at the center of its life. - from a report prepared by The Faculty Study Committee on the Principles of the College. Z1

Page 27 text:

YY :wb Q1 ll 4. Q RER 1:3 '1 Q3 i I if IN fi ,.L. f 31- if NL 41 Q f IIS. 4 , lu Q-.-:swab Q 5' ,at 1 f. 1. , . ' I , ff , I . . L , .-, I s 5' I 'n A 1 C A fs As Ny. N IA N . E ix Zfecvffrggsuii Q :fir f , 521, -.ff if-A ' . 'L'