University of Wisconsin Eau Claire - Periscope Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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In seeking out in a less intangible, abstract way for the answers to this question, we have set up three possibilities. The first of these is that Y SCEC is AN ACADEMIC ADY ENT L RE. But we felt that although the basis of an educational institution is its intellectual life, the social forces therein are of a major consequence as well. There-• f . J ‘JrfjU e, we have included the concept of our o l being SOCIAL GATHERING. ; f ' BtA lie« realizing tlia! the college would .V. ----- l r v i. r ncl activity without the per-so,,,h sfudents. faculty, aod ad- ministration we.have aisled a third i ijcept tll;.t of the iih r mI vf l IC'O fl m CI V' TF.'R to our basic -criteria .x y . I So follow us on our sci irch for fhr anJ-to this all important question of seff-knowf-edge. WeTI stop at points and check our progress and to perhaps joint out scenes of particular interest. Come along, the trip should he interesting . . .

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Before sharing our college with the reader, we of the 1960 Periscope staff fell that we must first explore it ourselves and seek out the answers to this pertinent question. WHAT IS WSCEC? Searching for this philosophical concept of self knowledge is not a new one. It is to Socrates that the phrase “know thyself1’ is attributed. Perhaps he gave a command of this nature to his young followers in the Athenian streets where he taught the answers to the same questions of a consequence to us centuries later. Later, Diogenes said “Thales was asked what was most difficult to man; he answered: fcTo know one’s self!” Thus although an ancient concept and one which is perhaps the most difficult to man, the importance nor gravity of self-knowledge has not waned through the centuries. It still stands as a challenge for the mind—be it young or old.

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WILLIAM R. DAVIES President Dorics s i) c a Is i n g at the groundbreaking ceremony of the library last fall. President Dorics is shown here in his office ot the college.