Mid-West Quarterly, The (1913-1918)
Date of this Version
1914
Abstract
The Arts College - the Arts College. There is without doubt a savour of feebleness and effeminacy in the phrase. And on the countenance of the college itself there is beginoing to appear the intense and baffled look of the subject of comedy. It is beginning to pay the price of its court of the current romantic eccentricity, of its wanderings from its ancient concern for the larger visions of the human spirit. In its older allegiance it had stood in the midst of the chaos of life, stably anchored in the flux, offering to those who came to it that detached, clarified vision and perspective to which it itself had attained. Its point of view was neither wholly resthetic, like our modern romanticism, reveling in sensuous reaction to the drift of phenomena; nor wholly intellectualistic, like our modern science, throwing out of count the intangible elements of the human consciousness with its emotions and affections and its spontaneous intuitions; nor was it temporal, like our modern vocationalism,concerning itself with the practical affairs of making a living. It was humane. It had reached the center. It saw life steadily and wholly, for it had attained to a point of view from which to orientate the chaos.
Comments
Published in THE MID-WEST QUARTERLY Vol. 1, No. 3 (April 1914).