University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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Stiulciits .uicl faculty, orking together, complctcil in No vembcr a thorough self-analysis of the university called the University Functions and Policies Committee Report. This was not just another endless report made by an unhe.ird-of suli commission. Taking two years to complete the study, the committee told frankly what was wrong with the university as well as what was commendable, and surprised both the faculty and the student body by doing so. In terms of what can and should l e done, there arc faults in the University of Wisconsin enterprise, the committee, headed by Dean Mark Ingraham of the College of letters and Science, reported. On the whole, though, the committee be- lieved the university to be an extremely useful community of scholars ' whose functions and policies in terms of American educational standards today are uniformly sound. The report titles its last chapter Ideal and Actuality. In this chapter it sets forth the first challenge to the university: Three basic and interrelated objects of education are to train the individual to earn a living in a socially useful manner, to develop in him the highest cultural and intellectual interests, and to make him .1 moral, intelligent and well-informed citizen with a deep sense of his obligation to the community. How well is the University of Wisconsin succeeding in living up to these ideals, the report asks. In training students to earn a living the report said, Yes, the university ' s graduates are well placed and seem not only to be abreast of their subjects but to have the background to develop in their chosen fields. In spite of cramped quarters and an inadequate library the committee gives an A to the uni ersity in vocational training. As to developing in its students the highest intellectual and cultural interests, the committee believed the university must recognize a large measure of failure. The report stated the readmg habits of the average American College graduate, in- cluding those of this university, are insufficient in quantity, Irothy in substance, and undiscriniinating in taste. The arts the committee found, attract attention from the educated public, the sciences are for the expert, and scientific curiosi- ty, a whim of the few. . n aerial view of lower campus, University of Wisconsin. The tur- retc l , rmory in the foreground and the YMC. behind it will be razed to make way for a new Wisconsin Center Building. Ihe iludents at Madison are many. As part of the varied extra- curricular program the Campus Carnival was presented in the Field- house. Its success is shown by the picture above.

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change is the most changeless of things - The main reading room of the hbrary of the University was cited as |)]tifully inadequate for a University the size of Wisconsin. Aniniij; the cuhural opportunities offered to Wisconsin students is the Pro Arte Quartet, a great favorite among the students. ' Mi Available at the university are opportunities for cultural education such as courses in the humanities, hearing good music, reading good books, and attend- ing public lectures in almost all realins. The commit- tee, however, adds that the elective system in Letters and Science, Education, and Agriculture does only little to insure contacts with our cultural heritage. The advisory system does not help much and the curricula in some of the professional schools preclude any substantial amount in cultural fields. Textbooks arc often inforinative but dull and the library is not conducive to browsing or establishment of good reading habits through easy contact with books. M.inx well known person, iges in the lichi of music and art come to the Union theater pictured at the left. .Miove is Josef Zigetti who was oni of the pcrfornuTs of the Memorial Union Concert .Scries this year.