University of Findlay - Argus Yearbook (Findlay, OH)

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Twenty AIQIBUS OUR DEAN CHARLES T. Fox NE OBLIVISCARIS Vandyke has Written a very interesting and instructive book, Art for Art's Sake. His legitimate contention is that art or beauty. aside from illustrative and ethical consideration, has its own particular contribution to make to life. Beauty, a peculiar synthesis of form and significance, representing the adequate and harmonious expression of some phase of man's life in true relation to the whole, legitimately can have but one comprehensive, universal appeal, viz. its significance for life. There is but one fundamental question imperatively demanding an answer at the very threshold of every one of our earnest questsiuwhat will my choice contribute toward 1ife's enrichment? This was the paramount burden of the Masters supreme ministry-abounding life. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it abundantly. not in the comparative but absolute degree. Herein lies the hnal purpose of all education. History science, literature, philosophy. art each and all have but one dominant purpose, the enhancement of life's values. If they would fulfill their true province in life's economy, they must lift the mere sordid, groveling for the things that perish with their using to the earnest inquirer from a suit for abiding values-values that increase with their using. Like diamonds which glitter be- cause they are ground, portant, at the present need of the ideal than Would you realize the a Joseph's integrity shines more brilliantly with use. lt is more im- time, says Victor Hugo, to bear in mind that the soul has still greater the real. It is by the reil that we exist: it is by the ideal that we live. difference? Animals exist: man lives. It is not that the real is unim- portant, but that the perishable is only a means, never an end. Eternal values are true ends. There are no others. As only to the closed eyes is there the true vision so only in the realm of the ideal is there an ultimate goal for worthy aspiration. The night is far spent the day is at hand. Let us get rid of that morbid, mawkish, would-be-realistic travesty on what Goethe call.d the eternally CConrinucrl on Page Forty-Fourj

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ADGUS HARVEY L. ALLEN President 1929

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CHARLES S. RICE Prufuxxor of Education J. RUSSELL BUC1--11311 Profcssur of Grcvk uml liihlfml Exvgvxix MADELEINE O'BRIEN Frofcssur of Lulfn and Spanish - ADGUS FACULTY :'.I'1 'L V V :::' ::':' , .. s:, 'E' Ss.,-,-,.,. W. A. BAIR Professor of Arm-rifun Hislory :md .Nlzzllwvmalirs BERNITA DREITZLER Professor of English and Dmn nl' Women ,-:V ? , : :Q TL? CARROLL MOREX' Profvssur of Clwnuislry 1929 A s s CLODEN W1XUGH Profcssor of Bfolnyy H. BRINSER Profcsxor of Erluruli-'ln LAVADA PULMER ixlanl Profussor of Eng I1'sl7 TLvcr1!y-One