University of Delaware - Blue Hen Yearbook (Newark, DE)

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I SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS President ...,.. ...............,............. H ARVEY DAY Vice-President . . . . . . ROSALIE SHAFER Secretary .... . . . NANCY PETER Treasurer ..... BOB PAULES

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SCHOOL CF ARTS 81 SCIENCES Francis Hagar Squire Dean .ln an era of educational endeavor key- noted by specialization, it is of primary im- portance that students be introduced to the broader aspects of their traditional culture. The School of Arts and Sciences, With curric- ula extending from the Fine Arts to mathe- matics and physics, strives to provide a background of combined aesthetic and in- tellectual interest in which individual special- ization may be supplemented by related Work. Four general fields of knowledge, em- bracing Literature, Languages, Natural and Social Sciences, Philosophy, Mathematics, and the Arts, are designed to give the maxi- mum training for a liberal education. The Arts and Sciences student is encouraged to take a deep interest not only in contemporary prob- lems and developments through a general effort on the part of the faculty to bring many courses up to date, but he is also guided in the study of the classics and the humanities. He is thus introduced to study which should round out his education in whatever field he concentrates his attention as Well as give him a deeper understanding of the life which he sees going on about him. Patterns Work themselves out in the history of ideas and in the progress of thought Which provides meaning to the ages of progress that have preceded, and to comprehend this meaning and to determine on a basis of an understanding of it the value of modern insti- tutions, it is necessary to go back. A Liberal Arts education is essentially a process of go- ing back, in its first stages of importance. But it makes, further, a supreme demand: It requires that the mind and intelligence ex- pand to give facts acquired place in a system, it requires that a broad understanding of the present be sought in terms of the past and on the basis of an intelligent comprehension of the thought of the past. lt should be, in the fullest sense of the Word, a rounding-out. Stu- dents Who have dipped deeply into the Arts and Sciences may meet their Worlds strength- ened-and, intoxicated, but With an Attic dignity.