Excerpt from The Mirror, 1937

It is possible, though hardly probable, that a year book may become an art form. Perhaps when editors are granted the privilege of being true to their own insights into college life, a year - book may some day exalt with restrained enthusiasm the ideal of intellectual honesty and creativity that forever lies just over the hori zon of every college hill. Within these pages we only hope to focus the vision of thinking men to a Bates enlightened by wise teachers, vigorous in its play spirit, severe in its mental discipline, yet patient and encouraging to its failures. Ive hope, perhaps, to suggest an alternative to any drastic change in curriculum that mav result in an effort to meet the occasional decrease in seasonal enrollment. In the very simple arrangement of this book we express our faith that Bates can represent, if it will, the interests of a lower-middle class group in creative scholarship, original thinking, and constructive service in the world of men.

Let us remember both our virtues and our faults. Fortunate are we in a campus cleared by clean winds and lying close to hills and meadowlands and coun try-roads where men may walk with silence and their own thoughts. Fe'have challenged our professors to define an ideally educated man; our returns have been surprising both in numbers and in singleness of high purpose. 'vhen these men are willing to submerge personal differences and departmental jealousies into a larger good that encourages and serves the intellectual curiosity of their students, Bates may well become a center where students are attracted by the light as well as the sweetness of its professors. Ultimately how far up the ladder of light Bates may climb rests with the enthusiasm and scholarship of its undergraduate body. It was not without wisdom that a Garnet writer could suggest: Bates may well raise its C standards, eliminate the unfit ruth lessly, and encourage the young man and woman who is so radical as to believe that a college should organize itself around the studies.

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