Baltimore City College - Green Bag Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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FRANCIS A. SOPER, A. M.

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unfriendly one, the occasion does not seem to call for this particular kind of work. A certain suggestion of pedantry will lurk under any exposition made in this contingency, and the notion that some unfair advantage has been taken of a privilege extended, that we have been lured to a lecture, so to speak, is apt to creep in and maintain itself in spite of honest efforts to dislodge it. This brings us around once more to our original question of “What are the duties and what are the functions of the teacher who contributes to the college year-book ?” His privileges, by virtue of the courtesy extended him by the students, are practically unlimited ; he may do what he will “dishonor shall be humor.” But what ought he to do? I am really almost tempted to say the teacher has of right no place at all in the book, that he should be eliminated, expurgated, done away with, except ,of course, as I have said before, as an objective element. In that capacity, he may be called on to endure different degrees of martyrdom, with the varying comforts of philosophy to support him in his trials. He may have an excellent opportunity for the display of stoicism, or he may enjoy with suspicious hilarity the jokes or grinds at his own expense, but with the traditional good manners of the defunct, he will not interrupt the proceedings at his own wake by any unseemly behavior. This patricular use of a teacher in the year- book I have been led by some experience and observation to understand, and I had almost said I am convinced, he has no other use. Such a conclusion, however, should not be too hastily arrived at or too positively expressed ; for just as there is back of all customs the historical basis of convention, good sense and justice, it is not to be doubted that this precedent of inviting some professor to contribute to the year-book, which seems about to become a custom, has its foundations in considerations which are not always to be found upon the surface. I would take it, in the first place, as a representative act. The honor of the invitation, is, of course, personal and particular, but it goes really as the message of one class of individuals to another, as an earnest of accord and sympathy, an evidence of trust and good faith. It says in effect : Share with us in this work ; let the association of years eliminate all ideas of differ- ence, yes, even the distinctions which ordinarily separate generations. Let the sympathy of a complete fellowship unite us by common ties, mutual interests, similar ideals. So it is most appropriate that the teacher should say something through these columns in recognition of the completer understanding and closer sympathy that bind together the present generation of teacher and student. WILBUR F. SMITH. i

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The Faculty. President, Francis A. Soper, A. M., Maryland Agricultural College. Professor of Higher Mathematics. Vice-President, Charles F. Raddatz, Rostock, Mecklenburg and Halle. Professor of German. Secretary, Joseph H. Elliott, Millersburg Normal School; Sadler’s Bryant Stratton. Professor of Book-keeping and Commerce. Powhatan Clark, M. D., University of Virginia, University of New York. Professor of Chemistry. Alfred Z. Hartman, A. M., Dickinson College. Professor of Latin and Greek. Stephen F. Norris, Baltimore City College. Professor of Mathematics. Alexander Hamilton. Professor of Mathematics. Gerard E. Morgan, A. M., Dickinson College. Professor of Latin. Philip H. Friese, Baltimore City College. Professor of Natural Sciences. Julius G. Miller, Virginia Military Institute. Professor of Mathematics. John F. Arthur, Baltimore City College. Professor of English. B. Wheeler Sweany, Maryland Institute of Art and Design. Professor of Drawing. i3