| |
| |
Caption: Convocation - 1927
This is a reduced-resolution page image for fast online browsing.
EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:
to be entranced; to touch t be ome a poet or a paii There is much to be aid about the influence of a great personality on th young. But that influen e is not felt certainly not in my it degree, und r such circumstances is 1 have just described. The individual must come into clos contact with a real personality if he is to understand in what the gn ness consists and to be inspired to strive to its attainment. Thoroughness in your work, then, evidence of appreciation on your part of the value of knowled e, evidence of your development as an individual personality as a result of your studies, are the things that we recognize today Thoroughness implies accuracy, truth, and other qualities which make men dependable in what they say and write. But scholarship, in the large sense, imports more than thoroughness. It implies a development of personalit; through the acquirement of a knowledge of the world's experience. It implies a person's ability to appreciate and adapt himself to all relations of life. We are told in our dictionaries that scholarship means accurate and well-disciplined learning, especially in the liberal studies. Again, scholarship is contrasted with the knowledge or attitude of what are called "men of affairs." Again, in the words of Charles Sumner: "By scholar I mean a cultivator of liberal studies, a student of knowledge in its largest sense, not merely classical, not excluding what is exclusively called science in our days, but which was 1 unknown when the title of scholar was first established." There is truth in these statements, but they are not satfying, to me at least. Scholarship is all of these things, but it is more. By scholarship I mean that accumulation of varied knowledge in many lines of culture, set in such relationship with one another, under the logical control oi a well-balanced judgment, as will produce a personalit> independent, individual, yet in harmony with its social environment; a personality emancipated from control b\ herd opinion, self-mastered, self-critical, with balanced judgment and urbanity. 'Sumner, Orations, Vol. I, p. 137. { r, )
| |
