Bates College - Mirror Yearbook (Lewiston, ME)

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l'l'BLlSlllNli ASSUYIATIUN age Nf'1'f'r1ty-fnltr lfroni Iilllll' Kennedy, Kenseth tl'rr.v, p, Stockwell tNrr'.l liuwk 11'on'.' Mr. Yyhitbeek, Kennedy llrlifl'-1,I'l'N. l, Mrs. Roberts, Luuko. The Publishing Association is tl1e governing body controlling all under- graduate publications. lts membership comprises three faculty members of per- manent standing and five students in the junior and senior classes selected by the entire college. Primarily its duties are financial: secondarily it serves in the capacity of advisor and on rare occasions invokes its powers of censorship. No similar body on campus is as 1m1cl1 maligned or misunderstood. Clear- thinlqing students will understand that it is the far-sightedness of this group that prevents college publications from going on the rocks with a natural after-math of debts and disgrace both to Bates and the student editors involved. As for its ap- pointments of editors either to news-paper. year book. or literary magazine, by general precedent the Association usually accepts the recommendation of the out- going editor: it retains, however. the constitutional right to reject any editor's recommendation when his candidate can 11ot meet valid requirements of experi- ence. ability. and constructive leadership. The Association meets at the discretion of its president. Achievement is quietly recognized when the campus publications meet their expenses and avoid immature quarreling with one another and the college population. No member of this organization 11eed expect thanks for his efforts. and only those with the thin, bright faces whose satisfactions are not measured by popular applause should express willingness to serve. As for its value to the college-it is once more this group that assures Bates of healthy, enlightened publications financially secure.

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TIIE GA IINET Front H0112 Sutcliffe, Dias, Kenseth iffililor 1, Kennedy. Scoulfas. lim-I: Razr: UuXYors, l ishman. Heed. The history of the Garnet would show a tendency reflected in any art form, college. or social institution of today. For years the literary magazine has swung a pendulum between literary expression for its own sake and divers attempts to make articulate ideas prevailing among the undergraduate group. Always. with the continual change in the college population. there has been a constant. re- definition of purpose. methods. and ends in view. This year has been no exception. lvuder the editorship of Arnold Kenseth the magazine has changed both in form and emphasis. The field of controversial ideas has been accented in the belief that a Garnet staff can. if it will. fulfill a serious and healthy function by translating its thinking into creative editorial opinion. Bands in Flzapel in the January issue suggests the possibilities of such thought-provoking commentary. Here the purpose is not. tolerance: here is no middle course . . . no balanced point of view to please both sides. The 1937 Garnet has taken a stand to approximate truth and will apologize to no group for its positive support of the intellectual life. In our particular search for the value underlying the liberal arts eciucation, we have naturally invited the mature interpretation of faculty writers. Thought- ful readers will t.urn again to essays by Professors Angelo Bertocci. George Vhase, and Rayborn Zerby. Student writing. ever of doubtful quantity and quality. has been unusually prolific. While the exodus of the seniors. Dias, Scoulfas, Bliss Isaacson, and Sutcliffe takes from Bates writers talented in sonnet, essay, and scholarly prose, there is a promise of equal maturity. beauty. and youthful wisdom in under-classmen-Dorothy Kennedy. Richard DuYYors. Ruth Robbins, Fred- erick Preble, Frank Cofiin, Eleanor Cook. Barbara Rowell, Stanley lYass. and Donald llaggs. Page S6l'BI1f'Il1ffl