Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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However, it must be kept in mind that debate in itself is often excess verlriage. In a more general sense, perlvaps muclv of tlve activity at tlve University is Rexcessvg mucln of it functions not to amplify the educational process, but to distract from it. Before We commit ourselves to the solving of real and pressing problems, We must train and educate our minds.

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1, 4 fl., is Instead of committing ourselvesv to myriad activities and causes, a certain apathy or aloofness seems necessary for proper education. An alumnus of Vanderbilt, while teaching here in 1967, commented on this problem: I think students here have too much to do. There are too many lectures and musical programs and visiting poets. And there is not enough time for casual reading . . .U -Allen Tate, interviewed in THE DIRTY VUE'-IUN, March 20, 1967 if 5 'its a ., A 1 M, W H-'gm yn rf-it , J,. -sv 9 W i f-fffffffvef-wif and perhaps serious meditation?