Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - Installation of UI President (1931) [PAGE 9]

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1 neglect, r h> v\ ong mcth. vtt ideals 1 r which tin university is strn ii in ii ' rooi i , im) >rtan< foui itudent envi nm it ( mot 1 r. looked. I htto b n powerful a en for thi aking < of men and vi men. The task of n snivel strict S) >urse, nlj a min r probl in w\ I is itiaU work ofstimulati n, coordination, and guidance. Ah rail, we have hct\, not nly tudeni but a stunt community, and w have a n : ibility > t community. In it, as in our cla r < we are making men and women. Out of that C mmuni 01 h t t o come people with habits of self-reliance ami with w llingm to assume responsibility. The task ftheUniver is not merely the m ativc one oi preventing an punishing breaches of discipline. It is al » the m re dirl cult one of helping to secure in that environm it happines stimulation, adjustment, proper living and working recreational conditions and portunities, and the formation of ideals and character. If I have dwelt this morning chiefly on the i possibility of the state university to its ud< I . it is 1 ai it has seemed to me appropriate to c ler toe obligations to the state, and of th< e our It for the students who come to us is the t . I pelled to add this word. The ch id which) now entering is, in my judgment, i it al : r tli St universities. Under the influence >fthen< al phi losophy of America toward highei h it confronted by a definite choice. I her they i cept the challenge which the public mt jhei education has thrown them, and do their u : dc 1 with the vast and complex problem of , u | *l education, or they will retreat from realit) int t imc world that sighs for simpler p r M, \c[

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