Undergraduate Liberal Arts

Famous quotes containing the words liberal arts, liberal and/or arts:

    “Barnard’s greatest war service ... was the continuance of full-scale instruction in the liberal arts ... It was Barnard’s responsibility to keep alive in the minds of young people the great liberal tradition of the past and the study of philosophy, of history, of Greek.”
    —Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877–1965)

    “We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.”
    —Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)

    “Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.”
    —Eliza Farnham (1815–1864)