Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Philip Liebeiman

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The ultimate goal of any college career must be to aid the individual toward appreciation of his personal identity. The contemporary liberal arts college stresses achievement ' not in the realm of information as much as in the realm of insight and experience, and this is to be greatly praised. Modern man faces, as his gravest dilemma, alienation — psychological, social, economic and religious. Such alienation can only be alleviated through the self-realization of every individual within the context of his modern life. It is in this realm that college serves as the unique attempt to solve modern problems. The individual is not to be approached as a unit, a number, another student, but rather as a human intellect searching for self-understanding and self-appreciation. This is no mean quest nor are there set pat answers or methods for its successful fulfillment. The college years are four years of agony — years of perplexity, of withdrawal, of excitement, of despair, of hope, of success, of failure — they are years of doubt and frustration, but they are also fruitful years. In truth, the quest for oneself is heightened in college. The easy concession to the status quo. to the fictitious realit of the average American is lost and one is faced with a struggle for existence, a struggle for one ' s soul and mind. To attend a regular college would be to appreciate the agony of only half one ' s soul. Yeshiva College alone is capable of aiding the whole man — the full soul. mind, and existence of the individual — for it alone joins the secular and the religious in recognition of the realities of modern life.