Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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5 Ns Y .rss M7-xi F1 H n fn 4'l fV - n n V' - .Q.. . r r DES- - qaae eademae yea? - W E feel that .IDONNYBROOKS of previous years have ov-erstressed social and athletic events, and have not given enough attention to the scholastic side of our college life. In order, therefore, to remind the student body of their academic joys, we attempt a description of a few courses, notable either forytheir popularity, or for some pleasing innovation introduced this year. A very delightful memory is that of Miss Tucker's English '19-a classroom where Miss Tucker sits in silence enshrouded in a veil of mystery 'and wisdom and all the air a solemn stillness holds. Ah! how valuable to the student are those moments of meditation I-for int is then that she can plan her new evening gown, decide how many times she can afford to go to movies that week, count the days before the next vacation, or the freckles on her nose-in fact, decide any vital question that she has not had time to decide before. Now and then Qto carry out the above metaphorj a voice wheels its droning flight. If it is her own voice and the spirit has moved her to speak, the student may be' somewhat startled when she Ends that she is Hhemming and hawing g but no one expects her to say 'anything worthy of note anyway.- Should it be the voice of a neighbor that drones on and on in endless monotony, who could wish for more freedom of thought, more communion with one's soul? The hours of careful consideration that Dr. Thomas has given to his course are numbered by the hairs of his head. It is in his classroom that just govern- ment of the majority rules. A ballot decides even whether the window should be opened or closed or whether the class should subscribe to the Suffrage Paper. The student may not have wanted the Suffrage Paper and it may .have remained uncalled for until the mail box could no longer hold the accumulation, but she was pleasing Dr. Thomas and swelling the coffers of the just Government League, and this thought in itself is an extremelpleasure. Then there is the little red book in which the student siigfns Hunpreparedi' before the class' begins. She derives from it all the pleasures of a lottery without the expense. The trium- phant joy of marching, carefree, out from a Hsprung quiz, when chance has favored her, far outweighs the gloom of the many times when she has remained to bluff it out, and has divided her time between an original solution of the labor -movement and an attempt to penetrate the mysteries of the system which announced a quiz on that particular day. There is encouragement in the English 6 course for every blooming oi budding authoress whose imagination has been neglected in her youth, for the new plot-box furnishes material for many thrilling stories at the mere exertion of a thumb and forefinger. Five innocent-looking scrolls of adjectives, nouns and verbs, held in place in a box by still more innocent-looking hairpins, when turned reveal such thrilling plots that Dr. Gay, assures us that anyone can write a story from them. To show what clever ideas can be obftained we here quote some of the plots: Impetuous cook abuses melancholy baby. Zig-zag maid kisses resentful barber. Dizzy dancer rescues regretful teacher., Bushy singer fears. nervous horse. Happy broker mangles clever dentist. Quarrelsome devil strikes unhappy corpse. ' IZ3

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I a - - . 'Sw its lfif ui: 41 ,Q Aunt Mary's course in Eng- lish History has two very im- portant virtues. It is a practical lesson in self-control, when one Q YL , has left it one knows how to 69.1.8 - 3 C r yawn gracefully in .company i without being immediately de- XX I 5' Ag' tected. But above all, it teaches I f 'G' ' one to be historical-minded and A 11 to look at things from a broad 'I .h, 3 point of view. The accompany- V inc: pictures are given as evidence 4, L P . i . . G l . P ' ot what interesting inteipieta- JE D tion may be gained of important , . . If historical events. 'T xr L. n,uAx Dr. Welshls course in Hygiene is perhaps the most valuable in college for its varied information and for the wonderful training it gives the students. The only -l . W . way to give due credit to such an Nl,f-y'f4-rx-'QT incomparable course is to quote vvv' 'K verbatim one of Dr. VVelsh's lec- King Edward Throwing the Royal Seal into the Thames. tures. Who is that com- in in late? Miss Smith! i Will, Miss Smith, what 0? waxes' excuse have you? All ', C, right, if the car was de- -if Iii: i layed, of course that's not JE.. your fault. No, don't sit N-fi- irf-'ww back there in the corner. 'N' Y ' I -X Come up front. Why is it :lg L ,,x,.v,g, you girls always sit where there's no ventilation and no light? There's not enough air in this room, anyway. Open that window -you, there by the radiator. Don't waste time with the stick, get up on the radiator, you're athletic. Now, where was I? Oh, yes-Miss-What do you mean by yawning at nine o'clock in the morning? There are only two reasons for that. You're either bored or youive been up too late the night before. I know how to keep you awake. 'All I have to do is to talk about diseases and abnormalities and you'll all prick up your ears. Very well then- if an abscess should form in the mastoid bone, a-nawful consequence might arise. Don't ask your friends' advice when you have an earache. The watch- word of good health is AVOID MEDDLESOME INTERFERENCE? See a doctor hrsjt. One of the greatest drawbacks to the advance of medi-cal science to-day is the faith of the lay people- in these rocking-chair philosophies! Now there was a theory, about twenty years agio, that in such a case-however, that has now been relegated to the dust-heap. Well, now-you're all sufhcientlv awake, I suppose. Miss-a-Brown, what is this bone called? I see you donit I24