“I come to you as an optimist. I believe…that education is one of the few processes developed by mankind that offers opportunities to find meaning in the chaos of life.
Diversity does not mean an extraordinary range or number of courses or departments.
It means diversity in people – in faculty, in students, in administration.
Immerse yourself in the diversity Manhattanville affords…See the interrelatedness of things. Risk ambiguity. Judge temperately.
Find values you can live by, yet never fear to question them.”
- Convocation Address, September 12, 1973
“I always think of reality as so much larger than the human mind that, therefore, the more viewpoints on reality a student receives when being educated, the more truth.”
-Elizabeth McCormack on "Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.," November 30, 1970
