Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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room, relaxed peaceful doze. CONCENTRATED CRAMMING When you got to the library and had read the same page for the fifth time, you found that copy of your favorite magazine in your pile of books. You flipped its pages and laughed at the cartoons while half of the other students in the room glanced at you with intolerance, even though some of them were thinking about getting a daie for the next movie or dance. Maybe one of them was thinking about the next vacation he would have from assignments and tests and term papers, the next time he would go home. You tried the textbook again after hiding the magazine from your- self, and after a while you felt sleepy, and it was a temptation not to rest your head for a moment on your arms. And so you crammed for your tests. Perhaps for you this wasn ' t the three-point year. Some students failed, and certainly almost everyone flunked one test or another over the year. Perfect test grades were rare, and after the year was ended, indeed after every test was returned, you wondered how much better you could have done if you had worked harder. Still it took a lot. Study was, is, and always will be hard work. And how determinedly you proceeded to study depended upon whether you had fortitude. Behind these windows, some napped, some looked out, some did research, some studied, some necked. 15

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' A HAPPY COMBINATION ' When John C. Baker became the fourteenth president of Ohio University, the Alumni Bulletin of the Harvard Business School described him as a happy combination of a hard head and a warm heart. The conservative Ivy League administrator had to call on both these attributed facilities in his first days in Athens. He assumed the presidency just three months and one day before the end of World War II, and he had to con- sider both his 1 37 1 students and the nation ' s nine million soldiers, sailors, and marines in making necessarily abrupt decisions. There was not much time for long-range planning in those first three months, but in the optimistic years just after the war, while he successfully expanded facilities for an influx of war-weary, knowledge-starved veterans, the man from Harvard initiated building and educa- tional changes and improvements that are only today nearing completion. The happy combination in the man who was, when he became president, a trustee of Juniata College and of the Boston School of Occupational Therapy, a director of the National Blank Book Co., and president of Avon Home, has wrought dividends for OU students. In 1955, the combination took on a wider scope, when Dr. Baker became U. S. Representative to UNESCO. 17