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PART I.-ARTS AND SCIENCES
Chapter 1.-Introduction
Much of the general pessimism about the present function and the
future destiny of arts and sciences in American education centers
about conceptions of the college of arts and sciences as a unit of
institutional organization. Agitated discussion of the topic has quite
frequently forced into the background the more important matter
of the functions in higher education of the areas of learning that
are included in the vague term arts and sciences. This review is
concerned both with arts and sciences as a unit in land-grant institu-
tional organization and with the functions of the arts and science
subjects in attaining the objectives of other forms of land-grant
college education. Consideration of these two aspects of arts and
sciences in the land-grant institutions may be clarified by a pre-
liminary summary and definition of various conceptions of arts and
science education.
It is possible to segregate four points of view: First, arts and
sciences is thought of as a unit of institutional organization that
includes a body of knowledge designed to provide four years of
general higher education; second, arts and science education is
thought of in terms of a 2-year junior college unit designed to pro-
vide and in a sense to complete general education preliminary to but
not necessarily as preparation for vocational or scholarly specializa-
tion. This conception differs little from the first except in the length
of the period allowed for completion of the process; third, arts and
sciences is thought of as a unit in which are assembled for adminis-
trative purposes a variety of humanistic, social, and scientific sub-
jects intended to serve the needs of the technical and professional
schools and colleges; fourth, arts and sciences is thought of as a unit
offering four or more years of preparation for a series of its own
specialized vocations. These vocations include those of research or
other creative activity in the fields of the several arts or in one or
another field of the social or physical sciences.
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