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“The highest
function of higher education is the teaching of things in
perspective, toward the purposes of enriching the life of
the individual, cultivating the free and inquiring mind,
and advancing the effort to bring reason, justice, and humanity
into the relations of men and nations.”
The Fulbright
College mission
from the writings of Fulbright
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Fulbright College dedicated the peace fountain on October 24, 1998,
in tribute to the legacy of J.
William Fulbright. Fulbright
believed that education, particularly study abroad, has the power
to promote tolerance and understanding among nations.
The Fulbright Scholarship Program, now in its 59th year, operates
in 151 countries. More than 250,000 people around the world have
won Fulbright grants, including professors, scientists, musicians,
ambassadors and artists.
At the fountain dedication ceremony, Edward T. Foote, Fulbright's
son-in-law, said he liked to think of students “sitting and
admiring the magnificent monument, talking and thinking in this
place of books, in this place of ideas, in this place of human understanding.”
FOUNTAIN FACTS
• Donations from 115 individuals and 18 countries
• Size: Consisting of sculpted bronze links
atop a granite base, the fountain is 41 feet high and weighs nearly
12,000 pounds.
• Designed by Fay Jones and Maurice Jennings
• Constructed by Baldwin-Shell
Inaugural poet Miller Williams wrote these lines in memory of Fulbright:
Think of students with minds made darkly rich
by cultures not their own, and who can say —
given the sweet contagion of a thought —
how far away
the tremors of opening minds may resonate?
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