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SERVING THE CAUSE as a basis on which to work." Included in a report dated May 1959 and entitled "Gettysburg College: Its Future," it gained trustee approval a month later.139 While the committee's working paper might easily have been developed into a widely approved statement of College purposes, this did not happen. When the committee finally presented a series of major calendar and curricular proposals to the faculty in December 1960, it stated that "its total educational philosophy gradually emerged from working closely with the specifics of the college curriculum." The members said they had proceeded in this fashion because they early recognized "the difficulty of reaching agreement on all basic objectives."140 The first statement of College purposes which received the approval of representatives of trustees, faculty, administrators, and students was contained in A Projection for Growth and Development, adopted in 1972. Consisting of but three paragraphs, it had the virtue of brevity, but proved in that respect to be too righteous. Consequently, after considerable debate and reworking, in December 1977 the faculty adopted a statement presented by the academic policy and program committee, entitled the "Academic Purposes of Gettysburg College." It appeared in full in the 1979 and subsequent catalogues; concerted efforts were made to use it in making curricular decisions. Although drawn up at different times and by different persons, the statements of 1959 and 1977 are more remarkable for their similarities than for their differences.141 139The calendar and curricular study which a subcommittee of the joint planning committee began in 1957 was continued by the new faculty academic policy and program committee when it began functioning in the fall of that year. Professor Richard T. Mara was chairman of the subcommittee and then, from 1957 to 1959, of the faculty committee. 140The materials which the College submitted to the Middle States Association in February 1964 contained the full text of the 1959 statement. The lengthy section on College objectives in "Gettysburg College: The Direction of Its Future," the development brochure which the trustees approved in the fall of 1964, drew in part upon the 1959 statement and in part upon what the 1961 catalogue committee prepared. 141In submitting its version of the statement to the faculty in October 1977, the academic policy and program committee observed quite correctly that something "finally adopted by the faculty will have an official standing not held by statements written by individuals and editors of College publications acting in the absence of a stated faculty position." 86