Washington and Jefferson College - Pandora Yearbook (Washington, PA)

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l w RALPH C. HUTCHISON PRESIDENT WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON TO THE CLASSES OF I935 AND I936 Speaking of the philosophical development of Marius the Epicurean, Walter Pater uses this sentence: He was acquiring what is the chief function of all higher education to impart, the art, namely, of so relieving the ideal or poetic traits, the elements of distinction, in our everyday life-of so exclusively living in them--that the unadorned remainder of it, the mere drift or debris of our days, comes to be as though it were not.', This ability to bring into relief the ideal and the significant is only the mark of the educated man but is essential in the very process of education. The college experience which lies behind this book has had, inevitably, much of drift and udebris' in its days. The attempt here is to leave that behind. With high ability the editors have brought out those features which are permanently valuable and which must not be forgotten. It is our wish and confident expectation that the class which has done this so well in this book may achieve it even more successfully in the personal careers of its members. To the graduating class to whom this book is a farewell greeting we express a similar hope. While not avoiding a courageous and meticulous attention to life's routine, may they yet find the poetic and ideal traits of existence obscuring and obliterating the drift and debris of their days. Their cultural victory will be through the discovery of those ele- ments which are supremely and unquestionably good and- exclusively living in them. RALPH Coomm HUTCI-nsoN. 1 Page 29 b

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4 Page 30 D Jke FACULTY EDWARD MOFFAT WEYER, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy Dean CLYDE SHEPHERD ATCHISON,,Ph.D., LL D. Professor of Mathematics OTTO F. H. BERT, A.M. LeMoyne Professor of Applied Mathematics Secretary of the Administration JAMES CLYDE MCGREGOR, Ph.D. Linn Professor of Political Science M. ALLAN DICKIE, Ph.D. Professor of German Language and Literature ' Head of the Department of Modern Languages Director of Evening Classes and the Summer Session. ALEXANDER HOLLAND WRIGHT, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry EZRA KEMPTON MAXFIELD, Ph D. George M. Laughlin Professor of English Language and Literature. LOUIS FREDERICK KIRCHNER, M.D. Professor of Hygiene