Excerpt from The Liberal College
The title of this book was chosen by the managing editor of the series to which it belongs. It is appropriate, I think, that the title page of the first of the Amherst Books should thus express the authority of the Board and of the purpose by which the series is to be dominated. Amherst College enters upon the publication of these books with very high hopes. It is willing to set aside desires far more compelling than that of a writer for his title, if thereby something may be attempted in honor of the legend Terras Irradient.
The editor"s justification of the title is that it indicates accurately, as it does, the subject-matter of the book. The writer, however, would have preferred another title. He would have chosen the name "Making Minds," and that largely because it invites misunderstanding. I am sure the editor will reward the willing submission of the writer by allowing him to use a few words in the Preface to indicate the notion which he would have liked to express.
The book itself is a collection of papers and addresses dealing with the liberal college. From cover to cover it expresses the conviction that liberal study enriches and strengthens the lives of individual men and of groups of men. It is based upon the belief that for a man and for his fellows it is well that he have a good mind, if possible an excellent or even a distinguished mind.
But with respect to such a belief as this misunderstandings flourish and abound. In general people have a peculiar interest in the processes by which they themselves were made. And the discussion of those processes and especially the suggestion that they might have been better than they were does not, for obvious reasons, conduce to calmness of mood.
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