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Show Rapid Increase in Knowledge Stimulant to Adventurous Ad-venturous Thinking in Youth By DR. JOHN GRIER HIBBEN, President Princeton University. The rapid increase in the scope of our knowledge today tends to provoke in youth a spirit of adventurous exploration of every phase of life. Fathers need not be unduly alarmed if their sons hold views not in conformity with their own. When colleges are doing their utmost to arouse students to independent in-dependent 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 in-dividual himself in creating inner sources of satisfaction in his own life and a value also to the community in which he lives. The pursuit of an intellectual interest is always a moral safeguard without which the temptations of our college life, cannot be withstood. We are not fully aware of the fact that in the things of the mind we are moving forward with a rapidity which surpasses even the material prog ress of this rapid age. The fact that our students live in this age of exciting and stimulating stimulat-ing discoveries in every field of study brings to them a challenge which they are meeting with a renewed interest and in many quarters with enthusiasm. |
