I'm Ruth, a new Admissions Counselor in the Office. I'm currently reading the Course Catalogue (for business) and The Idea of the University of Chicago (for pleasure). Or is it the other way round?
For your consideration: "I still think, as I have thought for many years, that the motto of the University should be that line from Walt Whitman, 'Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a new world.'"
Clearly Robert Maynard Hutchins (President of the University of Chicago, 1929-1951) would have written a mean Uncommon essay question. But is the question...
a) What do you think should be the motto of the University?
b) Just how bad for PR is it to market ourselves as "solitary"? "In the West"? "Singing"??
c) But does Whitman translate in Latin?
Or
d) [Suggestions welcome.]
In any case, never forget: Let knowledge grow solitary from more to more singing and so in the West strike human life up for an enriched new world.
