| Show rapid increase e in knowledge stimulant to adventurous thinking in youth 1 by DR JOHN GRIER HIBBEN president princeton Prin coton university the rapid increase in the scope of our knowledge today tends to provoke in youth a spirit of venturous adventurous ad exploration of every phase of life IP fathers athers need not he be unduly alarmed if their sons hold views not in in conformity with their own when colleges are doing their utmost to arouse students to independent thought on all the subjects of their studies it is impossible to confine their thinking to any watertight compartments the essential objective of a college education is the development in the individual student of his potential capacity evidenced by a growing intellectual vigor and integrity of character it has a value to the individual himself in creating inner sources of satisfaction in ills hia own life and a value also to the community in which lie he lives tile the pursuit of an intellectual interest is aldaya a moral safeguard without which the temptations of our college life cannot bo be withstood we are not fully aware of the fact that in the things of the mind we IM moving forward with a rapidity which surpasses even the material progress of this rapid age the fact that our students live in this age of ex exciting elting and stimulate sti mulat ing discoveries in e very every field of study brings to them a challenge which they are meeting with a renewed interest and in many quarters with enthusiasm thusia sm |
