Mansfield University - Carontawan Yearbook (Mansfield, PA)

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The traditions of Mansfield State Teachers College have been formed through years of adherence to standards of public and personal conduct as befits men and women who earnestly seek to prepare themselves for the public service of teaching, and of living in conformity with an enlightened social conscience. The College, as a training school for public service, naturally adapts itself to obedience to laws and to such regulations as have the guiding effect of law. This means a college student-body of superior intellect and desires. However lofty this may sound, it is nevertheless true that the students are human and as such make mistakes. Here is where the most cherished tradition injects itself into the picture of college life. The combined Student Councils weigh all matters affecting student conduct, and recommend appropriate action. Their suggestions cannot always be carried out, but this alert group, chosen by the students themselves, keeps the college administration and leadership liberal in the interpretation of student life, but conservative in holding to that which is good. — William R. Slraughn. His Message His Home 27

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The President

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The Deans Their Messages Dean of Instruction Dean of Women The social life of the institution has altered with its growth and the increase of the average age of the student. What was once a private normal of the board- ing school type with both pupils and faculty housed under the roofs of the two school dormitories and eating together in the one dining room has become a state supported teachers college with the facul- ty mostly living in town and a large and growing group of commuting students. With a school population of student, fac- ulty and workers and their families and dependents larger than half the perman- ent population of the town, with the tradition of the rural boarding school and the private normal, it is easy to under- stand and to approve the local conven- tions. Our school song has it — For every law and rule of thine. Is made to fit our life ' s design. and the better one knows Mansfield the deeper one appreciates their truth and understands that Mansfield ' s success has been deeply rooted in the conventions lo which its traditional environment has for- tunately made it heir. — Dr. Belknap. With the help of the Faculty and the Students, the offices of the Dean of Women and Assistant Dean of Women have established a system where-in college activities such as club meetings, social affairs, lectures and visitors mav find a place in the College calendar. Through the cooperation of these organizations one with another each individual student is offered a greater opportunity for growth through the knowledge of outside inter- ests and activities. — Miss Frederick. Dean of Men Conventions may be good or bad — and there are times, no doubt, when even the best of them should be disregarded. Cultivation of the happy faculty of know- ing when to follow the beaten paths, and when to strike courageously away from them, is one of the worthwhile purposes of College education. Growth in this direction, as in any other, must come through exercise, for which there is abun- dant opportunity at Mansfield State Teachers College. — John D. Trimmer. 28