Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-15
FACE TIE DAwNiNo
 AND THE SUN Then What We Dare to Dream of We Shall Dare to DO, Says Dean Nye.
(speclal to The buIIetin.l

Connecticut College For Women, Feb. 14.--df our college shall face the dawning and the sun, then what we dare to dream of we shall dare to do, said Dr. Irene Nye. deans in an ad- dress to the students of Connecticut College for Women. gathered at week. ly cenvocation.
 In his opening address te the stu- dents of the first class of the college. the late pr. F. H. Sykes, then presi- dent, gave the following bit of advice to the eager, ambitious audience of fyoung wonens itch your wagon to star. and wl1enever7y you do. do 1t
 beautifully" l The students of the col- lege hslvc striNen successfully under | this inspiration. BeSn Yves words are but an added incentive to the high
 spirit of ideals which glow with
 steady bright flame in the college on
 the hill by the sea.
 Said Dean Nye in part:
 There has never been college
 where every student continually re-
 garded the laws Of health as sacred
 and kept both mind and body clear
 and strong and perfect for her work. ! Yet we may have one here. There Ihas, never been a college where every student realized that self government.
 means strict government and the ab-
 solute subduing of Individual ineltna-
 tion to the general good. Yet we
 may have one ,iaere. ss
 There has never been college where freedom of speech was absolutely as- j sAred and thought not prejudice, ruled lsuprems Yet we may have one here. | There has never been a womans university where each woman follows the work she has chosen with a pas I.sionate eagerness, because 1t is not Eonly a part of her life. but the great lest. part of her life on which her share of the future of the world de- l bends, where faculty and students
 alike, disregarding grades. honors, prizes. ranks and salaries work for the joy of working. Yet we may have
 such college here.
 I used to write in my copy book 4 What man has done man can do,'s Ibut now in. full sense of the ability and promise of this college I say unto : lyou, What man has not done, man can do" All the prospects I have of : fered you, are yours for the taking, unless we prefer toi fake, as our chief , interest, dances and callers. leisure and fine clothes.
 fl. What this college is ato be depends : not on the trustees of the college not ! on the friends and faculty. but on
 
 : you want I say quite simply and truly, You have it in your power te
 give this college a character that nc other college has ever had before, l a character that as surely as it shal , exist will make Connecticut College 5 unique and shining among the colleges 7 of the world. Why did the faculty } grant student government to the stu, detn body? To give our students 2 l true idea of life. Life means respon. : sibility, decisions, inevitable -conse- | quences. As a result of student gov ernment,a a student comes to do righ I hecause they want to do right ana know what is right without being told
 If faculty government were substitutet : ithe habit of the graduates statet : would be, T will 6o only what is al e lowed by those in authority" We, be : lieve in discipline but as a great mod : ern philosopher says; The desirabl V kind of discipline is the kind tha e comes from within. which consists il y the power of pursuing a distant objec
 steadily, foregoing and suffering man. e things on the. way" Such disciplin e springs from ones own will, not iron 2 outside authority. Student govern ,. ment preserves independence, inten e ture and impulse sto<
 . Closely connected with student gov n ernment are many questions whicl ]. arise concerning g. personal behavior n Morality, propriety, medest;T, etiquette t honor, common sense conscience goo t taste, -deeerurn and department ar g phrases of student government whicl
 bear and have become widely differ : ent interpretation in different land e and countries. The only standard fo s us is the standard of our time and 0 o our country the judgment of the ma : jority. To be unconventional has n s virtue in itself. When an unconven 2 tionaI act is manifestly more, sensi e ble, it soon ceases to be unconven : tional. There has never been a col 5. lege where every student habituaH : informed himself fully and though e over the information carefully befor l. lannouncing a decision. We may hay n such a college.
 If our college shall face the dawn V ing and the sun. then what we dar O to dream of. we shall dare to do.