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he 1 3 rJLeaendi f PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR CLASS OF WELLESLEY COLLEGE WELLESLEY, MASS.
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COPYRIGHT, 1939 by CAROLINE CONKLIN Editor-in-Chief MARJORIE KELLOGG Business Manager
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PREFACE According to the old scholastic ideal, devotion to learning was the highest possible form of life. It was a rich, per- sonal subjective experience. Today, having lost none of its personal values, scholarship has become enriched by its interest in practical problems in such fields as economics, sociology and international relations. Our institutions of higher learning include not only colleges and universities, but normal schools, teachers ' institutes, and professional schools. Higher education continues, it is true, to concern itself with unfold- ing a way of life. We receive a cultural background of liberal arts, we learn how to live well-adjusted lives as individuals, we derive the deep satisfaction of knowing the best in literature, art and music. But we study, too, socialism, fascism, communism and capitalism with an eye to the bettering of social systems. We examine psychology to help adjust the young, the abnormal, the underprivileged. We study journalism, architecture, engineering, law and medicine. We study zoology and botany, chemistry and physics, in order to understand our world, and the materials with which we work. Our knowledge of physical and social science trains us to meet specific problems. It is our goal to define those problems and to face them. Today they are the world ' s problems; we view them objectively and think that we can either ignore their challenge or accept it. Tomorrow, auto- matically, they become ours. We have a choice of two large fields in which to work. There is the prob- lem of setting our own house in order, which means taking an interest in our national government, and in furthering the democratic ideal of America by acting as progressive citizens. Or we can turn our eyes abroad, endeavour- ing to reach a solution to the international tangle — a solution which is neither
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