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Show School of Arts and Sciences 1} Dean James L. Gibson ELF-PRESERVATION may be the first law of nature, but it is neither the highest nor the last. Primitive society concerns itself almost wholly with questions upon whose immediate answer depends the matter of race-survival, and spends its energies upon methods of attack and defense and in wrestling from nature a mere livelihood. Advanced society answers with little effort the most pressing questions of race-survival, and uses its so-called leisure in attacking problems whose immediate utility is not always obvious but whose solution, as history shows, has given us our present enlightenment. Advanced society is interested in good morals, the ethics of public service, the fine arts, the lessons of history, philosophy, the humanities, and the various branches of modern science. The School of Arts and Sciences, whose function it is to provide opportunities for a liberal education, permits of specialization in the departments which deal with these subjects; and its curriculum is intended to produce intelligent home makers, a cultured and broad-minded citizenship, and to give to our State, leaders in its intellectual activities. This school was never better patronized than it is today, and we trust that its future growth will indicate the desire of the people of this State for the higher and the better things in life. Page 28 Digital Image © 2007 University of Utah. All rights reserved. |
