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Caption: Booklet - Installation of UI President (1931)
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Qv lni ^}' l0 d n 0' atv o.' tc ti < >per sc hat inithe tion ha: the )orthe itic ust nts ond< blithe Jut icjy jne ize ()C. • he is injjj, zation. Both in our professional and in our liberal eduition the conditions that confront our gradual s ar in many respects essentially different from those of even ten years ago, and in another decade the; will have undergone still further radical alteration. The day is m definitely over when curricula can ever Ion unchanged, or when methods and theories that have about them only the merit of antiquity should survive. A state university, of all institutions, cannot take refug* in the easy formula, " I t has been so," as an excuse for evading its plain task. Universities like this, new as many of their problems are, m 0 their own precedents. They must be judged, not by facility in imitation or by adherence to tradition, but by whether or not they exhibit that quality of Un mindedness which is essential in their situatr versities today are not cloisters. They are instruments for the adjustment of young people to the complex and bewildering life of twentieth-century civilization. With the processes, the needs, the problems, of that civilization they remain out of touch at their peril. The intricate task of a university like Illinois can be met only through the resolute determination sible opportunity to study and to experime own processes. Unsupported opinions, and adhered to merely because they are traditii much out of place today in universitie: industry, and are fraught with the sam For the University of Illinois there is s of resoonsibilitv and oDnortunitv. Th Al tude toward its studen this campus there are living together more students than are gathered in any area of similar size in the United States. No one who knows anything of young people can be blind to the fact that, during these formative years of college life, the influences that play through this environment cannot be overlooked. In such an ment are opportunities, either for multiplying ment to modern life, or for (9)
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