Caption: Book - Four-Year Report of UI President (1950)
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What Arc tin ItffW ami Purpos* l of the Uni $rsity? A university pi ially a l a n d - r i a n t institution lii the Univcrsit) of Illinois is a complex enterprise that all ts the l i \ r s Of students and citi/ens in main ways. T U T VIRST 0OA1 First the University educates its students. This has alwa\s been ; lxoogniird as a prime function and it is not narrowly concei\ A w Centun ago Jonathan B, Turner, a at and ardent ad\ He state universities, wrotCj "The end ot all i lucation should he the development of a true manhood, OT the natural, proportionate*, and healthful culture and growth oi all the powers and t ulties of thr l human being, physical, moral, and soeial. . . ." The 1945 report of the University of Illinois Committee on Future Programs states, " T h e University has as its first large responsibility the education of its undergraduate and graduate students* 11 In its role as educator, the University aims fully to meet the needs of young men and women o r the breadth oi their psycho> l < al natures. Some of the needs oi vouth are intellectual, Young people need to know and to develop a creative imagination that leads to action. They nerd to use their minds to full capacity The) need to know the enduring satisfaction that stems from productive effort to discover the unique effectiveness <^i learnin in human affairs, Some oi the needs oi youth ai personal, Everyone el a strong and healthy body, a well-adjusted personality, and a sense of abilit) to achieve, Above all else, the college experience is an exeit in lf-rcliance and self"disco very, Some* of the needs are soeial. Young people* like to nuk< friends, to work and plav with others, to heeome members ol UpS that try to improvt ome aspect ol living,. Tin v seek satisfactions m personal and so ial pr« jrcss. Some (A the needs are emotional. It is important to m i | members oi the opposite sex under wholesome circumstanc< so u ••••••••MnniiH 'Jonathan B, Turner, Industrie Univtrsititt for th« V, A/,. Tackma. v .n [UlnoU, 1833
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