University of Wisconsin River Falls - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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President J. H. Ames Twentg

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BOARD OF REGENTS OFFICERS Edward J. Dempsey...................................President EDGAR G. DOUDNA..................................Secretary Solomon Levitan.....................................Treasurer PERSONNEL Jerome Baker............... John Callahan.............. Edward Dempsey............. Oliver E. Gray............. Robert Curran.............. William Atwell............. J. H. Grimm................ Mrs. John A. Aylward - - - George B. Miller........... C. R. Falk................. Otto M. Schlabach - - - - Whitewater Madison Oshkosh Platteville Superior Stevens Point River Falls Madison Eau Claire Milwaukee La Crosse Nineteen

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ONE of the great American illusions is the faith displayed in the things that are new. from new machines to new ideas. Up-to-dateness is the greatest virtue. In the effort to achieve this super-excellence, frantic haste is made to discard last year’s model, to reject last year’s book and to deny the beliefs and faiths of yesterday. The chaos which characterizes our social order today may be traced in large part to the feverish haste with which the American people have rejected everything of the past. Schools and colleges have anxiously struggled to head this procession. Methods, materials and objectives have been so frequently changed that all have been confused as to the real aims of education. No philosophy of education should be formulated in any but the broadest terms and based upon the past experiences of the race. The fundamental needs of society and individuals remain constant year after year, generation after generation. Education is a social process, whose aim is to produce not only useful and law-abiding citizens, but also those whose intellectual horizons have been enlarged, whose range of interests have been increased and whose sympathies have been deepened. To fail in these larger and more fundamental aspects of education is to fail all along the line. Colleges must keep alive idealism in the souls of youth and must foster those sentiments of honor and loyalty without which our religious, political and social institutions cannot endure. This is not the doctrine of conservatism: it is a plea that no program for the future, within our colleges or without, can fail to recognize the lessons of the past. Tu»nW‘Ont