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Page 32 text:
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One day this winter a student came into my office to ask me a simple question, which he insisted had not yet been answered by anyone to his satisfaction. What is the use of a college education? This was a pretty big question for ten o ' clock in the morning, and I wasn ' t ready for it. Perhaps I should have warned him that to talk of usefulness is to start off on the wrong foot. Perhaps I should have sent him to read Newman ' s essay, or some of the better passages in our own catalog. Instead, I fell back on an old argument and attempted to convince him in fifteen minutes that the main purpose of a college education is to improve the mind. As I think back now to that conversation, I am less than satisfied with the answer I tried to give. Certainly it is better to improve the mind than to fill it — better to sharpen the mental faculties than to treat the head as if it were a filing cabinet. Yet this fashionable emphasis on the mind as an instrument is beginning to worry me. Not only is the mind no cabinet, it is no pair of scissors, either, no pair of scales. The mind is a place, its own place, as Milton said, that can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven. I wish we could get back in education to a greater concern for individuality as something precious in itself, to a recognition of the fact that each mind is separate, different, a sovereign kingdom. This seems especially important in an age, like ours, of so much pressure for commitment in great collective movements — an age when protest itself assumes the manner and methods of the crowd. Perhaps we tell each other too often that no man is an island. I should be happy to know that each member of the class of 1967 is taking from the experience of the past four years a heightened awareness of his own solitary and inalienable identity as a thinking being. It is difficult to imagine any more precious gift from heaven to man. Nicholas Newlin Acting Dean of the College Nicholas Newlin, B.A., Williams College, 1930; M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1942; PhD., University of Pennsylvania, 1949. Ernest A. Howard Professor of English Literature. Chairman of Department of English. Acting Dean of the College. 24
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Dear Class of 1967: This is the day you have been pointing for — that is, graduation. For the past 1 6 years or so of your life each year has been punctuated by the red-letter day, the close of school. For many of you your formal education will close this June, though others will go on to graduate school. Even so, in the next several years to come you will be learning how to live completely on your own. How well you have been prepared for that step, we do not know. Washington College has tried to prepare you for it; and for some of you it may have done well, for others less than well. It all depends on your own competence and self-reliance. But wherever you go and whatever you do, Washington College will remain a part of your life: in the background, perhaps, but eternally there. With every good wish, then, we salute you and bid you Godspeed. Cordially yours, Daniel Z. Gibson President Daniel Zachary Gibson, B.A., Kentucky Wesleyan College, 1929; M.A., University of Cincinnati, 1939; LL.D., Kentucky Wesleyan College, 1956. President of the College 23
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