Seal of the AAUWyKH N
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cc SELL OF THE AIERICAN ASSOCIATTON JF WrVERS !TY WOTEN
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The G'reck words, as the :\appear on the seal o -;r.' the
car letters
.Aso oc*a*,* am""
on from 'top to bottom are in Gi:,,eek ca,,-. U
as I 0110-vTs
KA I F k-, A 7 0 Y
In the capital and. lower case., the motto would be written
thus:
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The motto is the counsel which Socrates repeat -.9 in the
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Phaedo as having come to h ' !.m often in dreams, I'make and cultivate
music-" Socrates goes on., "and hitherto I had imagined that this
was only intended to exhort- and encourage -me in the study of
philosophy, which has alinTays been the pi).rsuit of my life, and is
the noblest and best of roasA.Le » but I was not certain of this,
as the dream rfLight have meant music in the popular sense of the
word o o 411 ( Jowett' s Plato., Phaedo,, 60 Eo)
The ordinary geek sense is artistic and literary culture --
any art over which the muses presided, is more than
Implving labor and devotedness., `Thus, , the motto seemed
fitting f or a society of women., holding a cenlCoral and, as it were
a harmonizing position in the educational field,, and, devoted to
the other aims implied. in this counsel of perfection.
The design was chosen as combining positive artistic excellence
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with a suf J-icient symbolic element in the Greek temple and the closely -
bound fasciculi.
The design was made by Bertram G.. Goodhue of the architectural
firm of Grail;., Goodhue and Ferguson, and was adopted by the Association
at its meeting in Washington., Noverdber., 1902.
Information from the ACA Magazine,
February 1903 page 98
February 1908 page 106