Rockford College - Recensio / Cupola Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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v 4 Senior Day 'Our tears of narrowness in college are largely illusory. Experience in the colleges of France, Ger- many, ltaly, anrl lfnglancl shows that the big clilterence between them ancl the American institutions lies not in the intellectual equipment of the stuclents but in the very subject ot my tallc, the rlelinition of llrearlth ot Mincl. ln Europe the professor neecl not play the part of a monthly magazine for the stuclentg much oeneral introcluction to suhjects not his own the stuclent piclts up in the cliscussions of the collegiate societies' the rest he gets lay reacting, not only while a stuclent, hut cluring the clecacle afterwards. The gate leacling to Freerlom ol the Mind is understood to he a strait one: once a fundamental subject is mastered a young man or woman is thought competent to tincl his way into halt a clozen others., Gorcton Keith Chalmers

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mi. V. Fl'ElI'lCCS Blilllff Presitlent of College Government Association Anne Petersen A President of Juclicial Council College Government Association and aicling in tlme clexelopment of that gox ernment. Vxfe, the sturlenls and faculty of Roclulqorcl College. recognizing that its excellence ancl efficiency rest on tlae sense of civic priclc and responsilnility of tlwe incli- xiclual memlners do tierelny estalnlisla the College Government Association of Rockford College., i Every community wlaicla enjoys the privilege of governing itself derives value from participating in 1' I I D v

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Junior Day 'ln that struggle loetween intellectual lreeclom anal its enemies, l liope you will enlist for llie tluralion ' tlwe war-wlaicla means lor tlie cluration ol your lives. But it is tlac clanger from willwin l wisli to emplm- siie. lf Conlusion anal tl'1e lowering ol stanclarcls go on invreasiug in tlae worlcl algoul us, we Can lgeep our Commonwealtla an islancl ol salety only if we loola llie clanger squarely in llie lace anal summon all our in- telligence ancl energy to meet it. Nvliat is to save us? Vxllwat but lwonor? One miglwt call it conscienre oi cluty or responsilpility or lay some ollwer name, lgut wlaatever it is callecl, it is inclispensalple., Elizalpclli P. Bruslw ol