Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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, R NORMAL OFFERING BOARD EDITORIAL ISOAR IJ Edito1'-tin-t'l1ie-f HELENA REDDY Assistant Eduitor . .... . Businvxs R'I?ll'l?l,Q'GI'l NVIIIFRED H. HRAYICH Assistant IMISIIIPSS RIVHIHIQQOI' ..... Advertising Manager Photograph Editor . Art Editor . . . . . Assistants MARGARET DVNHAM I Fimmvial SGl'l't f2Il'.V LEO IIEAIIY IIIIt'l'il1'y Editor ALIVE DIVKINSON BICSSI E t,iliRIII3IlC R ELWIN M. KERR NVILLIAM ALTIER . RUTH REECE DORIS L. lIEA'VIT'I' EIINIVE K, SXVIFT Assistant Igiterzlry Editor ,.... I . MAI'iGARE'l' IJIINHIIM Sport Editor ........ GERALD O'lNbNNEI.II Favulty Advisors MISS DAVIS I MISS POPE MISS NYE MR. KICLLY

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NORMAL OFFERING 1926 Not to be Ministered Unto But to Minister Perhaps this motto of ours is more clearly engraved upon our minds since the destruction of the material inscription over the school door. At any rate, there is a decided change in the attitude of the student body toward being good leaders. Each one seemed to heed the plea. of our principal for co-operation in time of such disaster. We have always stood for the development of leadersg but now more than ever have our students shown their true worth in coming forward and giving whatever assistance lies in their power. It has been especially helpful this year to the faculty to know that they have had groups of girls and boys whose earnest endeavor was to aid in any possible way. VVhat a satisfying 'thing it is to know that everywhere around one is a feeling of co-operation! XVe agree that it is expected, but very seldom do we find a thing like this in its fulness as we have found the good spirit of the students this year. From nine to three-thirty, We have been attending classes in the basement of NVoodward Dormitory, where heat, light, and v-entilation have not been what they should be, all year have we been going to school under these conditions and, mark you, for the better part of last year, too. Some wag has dubbed our source of learning Basement College , therefore be not sceptical but believing when you hear some of the fair ones say that they go to B. C. However, be it said to the well-deserved credit of our principal and friend, Mr. Arthur C. Boyden, that even though we were out of school three weeks because of the tire and its entailing losses, we never missed one lesson. Mr. Boyden told the public that we were to begin our work where We left it perforce. He was doubted as making rather a radical statement, yet when we returned we began again as if no tire had taken place. Nothing was omitted from the curriculum except observation in the training school, and that had to be omitted because there was no more training school building. Time, however, will remedy that. The greatest blessing that the tire brought was a decided increase in school spirit. It has not been an easy matter to be attending a class, separated only by partitions from two others, and at the same time be conscious that some one is stuttering for the right Word to finish his French lesson, across the way: while in still a third corner of the room an ambitious youth is learning that he is not a Daniel Webster, and may never hope to be. Still, we have seen it through. NV-ei have respected each other's hardships, How well it has sounded to us to hear our Dean say that she was so proud of the way in which class-es were carried along, especially in the absence of the room teacher. Initiative has certainly been brought to the immediate foreground. Again. This time it is to speak of something which, ,when we think of it. saddens our outlook on the coming year's work. Longfellow has truthfully sail that into each life some rain must fall. XVe are to lose our Dean and faithful guide, Miss Pope. Lose? N03 not quite so bad. NVe are lending her to Columbia University to study for a year. Here again is the remarkable school spirit shown. Every girl has promised to do her best in helping to direct affairs next year. A year or two ago. and many would have been afraid to undertake such a responsi- bility. But we have learned that we are here, Not to be ministered unto, but to minister. Although we shall miss our guiding hand, we shall all strive to work if she were present to bring out the best in us and in others. ln due course of time. conditions will be altered. Presently, other things being equal, we shall enter upon our life in the new buildings. which are about ready no '