Sarah Lawrence College - Yearbook (Bronxville, NY)

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IMPRESSIONS OF SARAH LAWRENCE BY A GROUP OF FOREIGN STUDENTS

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IMPRESSION I I have been asked the following question: what can Sarah Lawrence College give you? Now, many foreign native students have probably been asked this question and through the years I am sure that one quality or another of this College as an interpreter of American life, has been mentioned. Yet I am not afraid that my answer will, through lack of originality, be boring to the reader. According to one’s own special background one is able to get different things out of the same situation or experi- ences. method or institution. Maybe I am wrong in this case in saying “out of the same situation or experience, method or institution, for this college has a unique char- acteristic—Sarah Lawrence is alive! What do you mean? How can an institution be characterized as being alive, in contrast to any other institution? The People who are standing behind the title “Sarah Lawrence College have succeeded not to be, nor appear as people working and struggling along in an institution which has been built and composed some years ago, and which, after having estab- lished certain principles and methods, stays firm and un- moving in spite of the flowing life all around. This usually happens in places which have acquired a reputation some- where in the past, and which then feel bound to that “name. The people in these institutions must move within the line which one traced the “name of this place. If they don’t, they are misfits, for there is no room for individual- ists in the cliche institution. Page Seventy-fi e