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Show CUEST SPEAKER OUTLINES FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATION "More effectively than most people have been able to do. the Utah pioneers kept their dreams and their ideals before them, even ev-en in the face of immediate, pressing pres-sing .realities-," said Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the University of California, last Sunday, Sun-day, speaking of the idealistic founders of the Deseret territory and the University of Utah. Dr. Sproul spoke at the inauguration of Dr. LeRoy E. Cowles as president pres-ident of the University. The speaker outlined the functions func-tions of education, and particularly particul-arly of universities. He emphasized emphasiz-ed the fact that schools still free to carry on their proper functions must preserve for the future the culture and the wisdom of the 'past. The Universities of the New World must carry on while those old centers of culture in Paris, Warsaw, Prague, Heidel-burg, Heidel-burg, and the East remain instruments in-struments of propaganda, he said. "Universities are not luxuries to be sacrificed in war times," Dr. Sproul added. "It is their task to hold aloft the light of truth, by which man may recognize recog-nize his kinship with the eternal." eter-nal." The universal brotherhood of man may be said to exist at the present time only in the worid of universities, where scholarship, not power, is the ideal, the speaker speak-er continued. It is the fellow feeling feel-ing between scholars of all nations na-tions which will help to unite the rifts now being created by nationalism. na-tionalism. It is the function of the University Univer-sity to preserve the truth and culture of our civilization. This is one of the most powerful war and reconstruction weapons the country possesses. "Victory in war is only a means and an instrumentality in achieving achiev-ing what we are fighting for. After victory, it will be the work of our educated leaders stuck in the quagmire of hate and ignorance," ignor-ance," Dr. Spoul declared. Dr. Cowles received the keys of the University from the hands of Roy D. Thatcher, chairman of the Board of Regents. The new president said, "The world looks foreward to a better and a happier hap-pier future. I dedicate all my efforts ef-forts to making this vision a reality. real-ity. m I |