Mansfield University - Carontawan Yearbook (Mansfield, PA)

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II II II ri m- rr jrm J II II XX I I JLI l L XX II II II II »» ul Student life at Mansfield State Teachers College is based on the fundamental principles of American democracy. Most respected and worthy of these principles is the preservation of human rights, which emphasizes the value of human per- sonality. Accordingly, each indivi- dual is influenced to develop his personality so that it may inspire the respect of others. Important qualities to be considered are hu- manity, humility, and humor. By developing these qualities, one finds his college experience assuming new meaning and his conception of citi- zenship in a democracy taking on new significance. America is preparing to defend democracy. This brings us face to face with the problem of defining democracy. College men and women all over the country are asking themselves the very important ques- tion, ju st what are we preparing to defend. To answer this question, it would seem necessary for each and everyone of us to re-state and prac- tice the principles of democracy as they were laid down by the found- ing fathers of our country, and as they have operated to obtain and conserve those liberties for which many peoples of the world have sac- rificed so much. May we in our college activities learn to think and act democratically, and rededicate ourselves to the preservation of the liberties which democracy has brought us.

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A. T. BELKNAP Modern democracy, the outgrowth of many centuries of hard and bitter experience of living together in which men have slowly learned both to obey and to command, is a practical recognition of individual dif- ferences in human beings whereby the superior powers of superior indivi- duals may be used by them and by their fellows consciously, willingly and cheerfully for the mutual advantage of all. The practical blending of initiative and conformity with the proper adjustment of conflicting wills and varying talents to mutual necessities whether in a Norse ship, an Anglo-Saxon village, an American town, a European State, or a modern college is democracy. Like a ship, any democracy needs both captain and crew. For a true democracy all must lead and all must follow as they are able. Obedience and initiative are equally needed. The resulting conflict of patterns which is the history of the world has gradually produced the current frame of democracy in its evolution, past, present and future to- ward a more useful and comfortable human society. As longer time is spent now in school, years which other generations spent in work and in war, it becomes constantly more important to have in education that give- and-take which produces and which is democracy. This is not a model ' democracy, falsely so-called where the model has been sometimes defined as a little imitiation of the real thing , not a liberty which is license, nor fruitless bolsheviki player camouflaging tyranny, but real democracy which is the use of the common wisdom of the common mind working for the common welfare. Here not only in state and church, but in business, edu- cation and social life, everywhere, government is of the people, by the people, and for the people. This is a soundly democratic and progressive philosophy of education and life based on mutual good will, trust and con- fidence, respect and assistance which by the blessing of God shall never perish from the earth.

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Faculty ALGER, HUGH W. Science and Supervisor of Eighth Grade ALLEN, ELIZABETH S. English, Assistant Dean of Women ASHENFELTER, MRS. NELLIE Music, Elementary and Junior High School ATWATER, CORA Voice BELKNAP, DR. ARTHUR T. Dtan of Instruction BEYER, LEONARD K. Biology BOWERS, HELEN Office BROOKS, MARJORIE C. Harmony, Dictation, Music History BUCKINGHAM, LILLIAN E. Chemistry BUNN, MARGARET M. Office CASS, GEORGE W. Social Science CASWELL, WILLIAM E. Indastvial Arts CHATTERTON, IRVING T. Oral Expression CURE, JOHN English; Education DARRIN, CHARLES Head of Publicity Department DAVIS, PAUL J. Social Studies DIETSCHE. HELEN F. College Nurse DOANE, STELLA Librarian DOANE. DR. JOHN H. Physician ; Health Education DOANE. ALICE H. Latin ; English DOUGHTON. DR. ISAAC Director of Laboratory Schools Instruction