University of Maine at Portland - Reflection / Umpire Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures 0 very tender plant, easily kiIIed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere wont of Sustencince; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away it the occupations to which their position in life has devoted them, and the society into which it has thrown them, are not favorable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise. Men lose their high GSpirotions as they lose their intellectual tastes, be- cause they have not time or opportunity for in- dulging them; and they addict themselves to in- terior pleasures, not because they deliberately pre- fer them, but because they are either the only ones to which they have access, or the only ones which they are any longer copobte of enjOying. John Stuart Mill Utilitarionism 086$ Man's condition is inevitably bittersweet. Nevertheless, on individual should build integrity into his very being and seek the sweet life. The sweet is the moral, the aesthetic, the spiritual, the intellectual - which mark out the truly human from all other life forms. Though hard to achieve, it is the only pursuit that has lasting value. Integrity structures such 0 life; for, it molds and maintains a free and agreeable spirit that is copo- ble of becoming the life-style which is one's own self in the highest sense. A continuing, liberal education encompasses both in- sight and knowledge, through direct involvement and by indirect description. And it, more then anything else, aids in identifying what is really sweet and in trans- forming the bitter elements into the ultimately sweet existence. John Sweigort Deon of Instruction

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David R. Fink, Jr. Provost William L. Whiting Associate Dean