September 29, 1949
Dean Marion Tait spoke at Convocation as the college began its 85th academic year, urging that “in education, as in any enterprise, the really important first things are the quality and sincerity of our mutual care and respect for each other as individual human beings. This is what any kind of creative living depends upon, and it is what will finally determine our effectiveness in approaching our ideal of democratic living.”
Her freshman auditors numbered 392.