Occidental College - La Encina Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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1 the side of forbearance. But she will not shirk the task. She will face the problem, not as a corporation, heedless of the student's diihculty or the parent's anxiety, but moved by kindness and a living sense of obligation. The third fact to be reckoned with by everyone seeking an Occidental diploma is a well defined task, worthy his noblest powers. It is not the same task for all, since all have not the same capacities. Certain subjects can not be omitted. Among these the place of honor must always be assigned to that Divine Word which contains the wisdom of the ages. A few other subjects also, which time has shown to be indispensable for manly and womanly culture. of the highest order, are the same for every student. To omit them would be to make freaks of our graduates instead of normal human beings. Haste toward early specialization is one of the abnormal tendencies of the times. Producing a hump on 5 child's back is not true development. Neither is it giving him an education to raise a. bump at a selected spot on his otherwise healthy cranium. Forcing a one-sided growth without providing for the symmetrical development of the whole man is only fastening de- formity on an imbecile. The Occidental idea is men first, specialists afterward. DEAN W. D. WARD. l H .r.:f ..a....- ,.S.-kLS:Q -......- ..- ... .-....., . 5-,,.. 11

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