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University of Iowa handbooks for new students, 1960-1968
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study in what, from an educational point of view, may be called a highly cosmopoliton atmosphere. Third, you will have the opportunity to "rub shoulders" with students from all over the United States and from foreign lands who are interested in a vast array of fields from art through zoology, as well as many professional fields. Quite apart from formal instruction in laboratories and classrooms, this total environment provides a rich educational experience. The University seeks to attract to the campus those young men and women who are seriously interested in the intellectual life. Essentially the University is a community of scholars; it is not an athletic or social club or a center for extracurricular activities. While the University strives to make life on the campus enjoyable, the "extras" are but a means to an end namely, the enhancement of learning. Scholastic standards of performance are high; those students who by their conduct indicate a lack of serious concern about scholarship are carefully and promptly "weeded out". The University is eager to help every student with a serious purpose who applied himself diligently to his studies. It believes that it best serves the state of Iowa and society as a whole by insistence that its students place love of learning above everything else in their lives as students on the campus. Young men and women with a serious educational purpose and a genuine concern about the intellectual life will find their years on the campus to be interesting and stimulating and will look back on their students days with genuine pleasure and satisfaction. [hand drawing]students 48
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study in what, from an educational point of view, may be called a highly cosmopoliton atmosphere. Third, you will have the opportunity to "rub shoulders" with students from all over the United States and from foreign lands who are interested in a vast array of fields from art through zoology, as well as many professional fields. Quite apart from formal instruction in laboratories and classrooms, this total environment provides a rich educational experience. The University seeks to attract to the campus those young men and women who are seriously interested in the intellectual life. Essentially the University is a community of scholars; it is not an athletic or social club or a center for extracurricular activities. While the University strives to make life on the campus enjoyable, the "extras" are but a means to an end namely, the enhancement of learning. Scholastic standards of performance are high; those students who by their conduct indicate a lack of serious concern about scholarship are carefully and promptly "weeded out". The University is eager to help every student with a serious purpose who applied himself diligently to his studies. It believes that it best serves the state of Iowa and society as a whole by insistence that its students place love of learning above everything else in their lives as students on the campus. Young men and women with a serious educational purpose and a genuine concern about the intellectual life will find their years on the campus to be interesting and stimulating and will look back on their students days with genuine pleasure and satisfaction. [hand drawing]students 48
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