Evening star., 1934-09-20
MARVIN Welcomes
NEW c. v. j. GROUP
ExhortS Freshmen to Seek
Broadest Possible Edu-
cation in College.

Various groups of George Wash
ington University students were
urged yesterday by President Cloyd
H. Marvin to accept, with high seri-
business of purpose, their responsible
ties toward life.
The day marked the beginning of
the Fall term, with classes and as
semblieS for new and professional stu
dents.
To the freshmen, DR.. Marvin said:
"Your task is to evolve sound phi
losophy and an understanding Of life
that will make for permanent con-
tribution. Your life should develop
while you are here in the university
in way that will inspire confidence
and hopefulneSs in the life about
you"
Warns of Disinterest.
He told the new students they
should keep abreast of events and
developments in the world, saying:
do not let it be said of you as you
go through college what was said in a
report upon one graduating class
that as seniors they knew less of pres
ent-day activities than they had
known as freshmen. The world is
becoming increasingly social-minded,
and this is bringing changing ideals.
The stress and strain of making ad-
juStment to these changes is apparent
today. AS students, you must con-
tribute to the orderlineSs and success
of this process of adjustment, for
change, to be progressive, must be in
tellectual."
His message at the opening exer-
cises of the School of Medicine was
that the medical student should have
IAN especial longing for a complete
and rounded life," since the out
standing physician and surgeon must
be humanist."
only the other day." President
Marvin continued, II heard a ply
sician say that he knew nothing about
literature. He was rather proud of it.
say to you that he missed the point
of his life's training. All branches of
human activity, even those seen
through biological manifestations, are
deeply united and carry back to all
other types of activity, even as the
leaves of the tree are differentiations
of the twigs and these again of the
branches.
Broad knowledge Needed.
You cannot know the biological
man without knowing him as a spir-
itual being and in relation to his
environments. AS life becomes more
complex, more interrelated and more
dependent, there will be increasing
need for the physician to understand
the motives of men, to interpret the
strains and stress under which they
work, for in these elements will be
found the reasons for the breakdown
of the biological machine.
The real professional attitude
which you must have will wisely in
clude understanding as we'll as tech
nique. Spend much time in reading
and thinking for there is much of
value that men of the past and pres
ent would say to you. Live a noble
life, one that commands the respect
OF your fellow men. This type of life
will command confidence, and con-
fdence is necessary as one of the
healing arts"
In an address at the opening ex-
ercises of the Law School, President
Marvin said that the law student
must acquire an added suppleness of
mind and heart to see the world from
other mems eyes, to think their
thoughts with them, to measure and
weigh the meaning of their motives
and desires. The judicial mind is
primarily the one capable of entering
frankly and fully into the thought of
feeling of each litigant as he comes
before the bar of justice. There is no
walk in life in which this power of
sympathy is more necessary"