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When Grinnell College framed its charter in the Iowa Territory of the United
States in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for the different professions
and for the honorable discharge of the duties of life." The College pursues that mission
by educating young men and women in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open
exchange of ideas. As a teaching and learning community, the College holds that
knowledge is a good to be pursued both for its own sake and for the intellectual, moral,
and physical well-being of individuals and of society at large. The College exists to
provide a lively academic community of students and teachers of high scholarly
qualifications from diverse social and cultural circumstances. The College aims to
graduate women and men who can think clearly, who can speak and write persuasively
and even eloquently, who can evaluate critically both their own and others' ideas, who
can acquire new knowledge, and who are prepared in life and work to use their
knowledge and their abilities to serve the common good.
February, 2002
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