University of the South - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Sewanee, TN)

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J. VIEW OF THE MOUNTAIN EIFE Hpv If one looks at Sewanee superficially, he will see students going to Science Hall, or to check mail, or walking across the campus, hut if he peers deeper, he will find more. He will see a living ideal: a belief that both intelligence and morality are necessary because the mind without con trol and motivation of spiritual ideals is a negative or destruc- tive agencv. and because spiritual idealism without intelli- gence is weak and futile. He will encounter a sense of pur- pose which the University Senate clearly expressed in these words: ' We are definitely committed at Sewanee to the Col- lege of Liberal Arts as a distinct unit in the educational system of our country, with a contribution to make that can be made by no other agency. In an age when the demand for the immediately practical is so insistent, when the in- tegrity of the College of Liberal Arts is imperiled by the demands of vocational training, we adhere to the basic function of the College of Liberal Arts: the training of youth in Christian virtue, in personal initiative, in self-mastery, in social consciousness, in aesthetic appreciation, in intellec- tual integrity, and in scientific methods of inquiry.

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CONSTANT STUDY SI III l« III S 0 Since the greatest gift that a university can give, is to afford its students an opportunity to learn. Sewanee men, like all other serious persons, must study. In these pictures we see ourselves at work at the job of studying — perhaps in our r n. in the Supply Store getting books, in the lab or at class. Our university offers us a sound liberal arts course covering the major fields of human endeavor. Before us is presented an opportunity to study the great literal) works of mankind in both ancient and modern languages, and in our native tongue. Mathematics and the sciences, and the technology developed by Man ' s rational, inventive mind are offered. The study of the history of Man ' s achievements in past civilizations, and in our own generation, and of the social sciences is here for the taking. For us the arts of the educated man — music, art. drama, and speech — cry for our interest and attention. And lastly, the power of the philos- ophy of the world ' s great minds and the religion of supreme peace and justice imite our inquin and devotion. Il is through these course-offerings and student application that a school, dedicated to the arts and sciences, helps its stu- dents lo master the liberal arts.