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2? ! . m ?X?) I: A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR HERE IS a bit from Cowper which Sir WiUiam Osier, the great physician, was never tired of quoting. He said no one ever drew a more skillful distinction. Knowledge and wisdom, far jrom being one, Hat ' e o t-tnnes no connexion. Knou ' Iedge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men: Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has earned so much: Wisdom is humble that he nows no more. Has any one told you that ignorance is sin? If you have missed that you have missed fellowing with themost inspinngteacherof the western world. He used to put it differently. He said, Knowledge is virtue. You will doubtless say, as many have said before you, That can ' t be true. If you say that, it is because you think of knowledge as acquaint- anceship, whereas Socrates thought of it as convic- tion. He did not make the distinction that Cowper makes. To him the only thing worth caring for or struggling for was a mmd possessing its own certain- ties and constantly engaged in knowing more and more. The greatest difference between men and stones is that men choose, they prefer, and when they choose, they reject and turn their backs upon more, much more than they cleave to and struggle for . To do that they must value, and to do that skilfully and un- erringly, their awareness of values must be unerring. Knowledge is right valuing, said Socrates. Knowl- edge made our own, deepened into conviction, is wisdom, said Cowper. That is the priceless thing, for it alone enables man to chooses aright and guide his life with holiness and strength. Aeschylus agrees with them, for he concludes that the spring of all wrong-doing is false coinage; that is, putting the wrong stamp on things, trying to make them pass for what they are not. This is a pretty solemn message to a graduating class, but graduating is a pretty solemn business. It invites one to box his compass and to note the course he has been sailing and the direction in which his wheel is set. If you have learned to try to distinguish right from wrong, true from false and beautiful from ugly deeds and hopes, you are in the way; you will make harbor. The years which are behind have not been easy and those which are ahead will not be easier. Life on this planet when it is on-going has never been other than a war- fare against our members to make them do what they must do. We received it from men and women who struggled with a wilderness and made it a habitation, who knew penis and journeyings, hunger and weari- ness, deprivation and watching. They set before themselves a great hope and relentlessly they drove them- selves to realize it. They gave us what we have; they made us what we are. They call us to value life as they valued it, to struggle unweanedly for understanding and with devotion to whatsoever things are pure and OR. ERNEST C. MOORE, PH.D
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A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE THE colleges of Liberal Arts in America are finding increasing difficulty in meeting the claims of the many new vocational enterprises. There is a per- ennial and persistent demand that the vast amount of modern knowledge concerning the physical order and the many other achievements of men be consid- ered, in a much larger method than hitherto, a part of liberal education. It is, there- fore, ' difficult, particularly in a State University, to stand uncompromisingly for the liberiil arts ideals of a century ago. The serious risk in our College of Letters and Science is that we may attempt to meet these pressing demands too rapidly and embark upon work that is, after all, alien to our central interest and for which we really are not prepared. We de- plore the fact that today so many students want an education because they believe that thereby they may become equipped with a better set of tools for the economic struggle. In keeping with this conservation plan, our College of Letters and Science has added but three new departments to the list of the thirteen departments which originally were authorized to offer majors. A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN OF WOMEN Dean C H. Rieber Dean H. M. Lauuhlin THE editor of the Southern Campus has asked me to make a statement of what 1925-26 has meant to the women of our beloved University. This is a pleasing task but not an easy one, for it is impossible adequately to discuss your many ac- complishments m the space of this article. Last semester this institution enrolled three thousand nine hundred seventy-six undergraduate women students. This number exceeds the enrollment of undergraduate women at the University of California at Berkeley. Yet, so harmoniously have you worked and played that even the members of our own company do not realize that you probably form the largest group of women students gathered on one campus anywhere. Highest commendation is due for your standards of behavior and dress. High stand- ards do not just happen. Yours are the result of a well organized and never ending cam- paign, the effectiveness of which is all the more laudable because of the quiet manner in which It has been conducted. National sororities have signified their approval of you by granting charters to twenty-five local groups in less than three years ' time. Additional locals should be or- ganized if you are to offer sorority privileges to all who desire them. Highest praise should be given Phrateres, an efficient, democratic organization that has done much to make your slogan, Famous for Friendliness, a vital force in your University life. Prytanean deserves approbation for the unselfish service it has rendered in coaching deserving students. You have had the honor of entertaining the Intercollegiate Conference of Associ- ated Women Students and the Western Section of the Athletic Conference of Ameri- can College Women. In each case you reflected credit on yourselves and on the Uni- versity. This is a fractional part of your story, but I have already exceeded my space allotment. J jU- I 201
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