Bates College - Mirror Yearbook (Lewiston, ME)

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DEDICATIIIN To Dr. IIZIXIJUYII ZQPITN. who has t1'z111sh1t1-11 into his life the patient intellect of the scientist. the l1a11'1111111'v of the artist. and t11eic-11111pussi011 of the C'h1'istiz111. XY:- hwc the lllilll. and for hi111 111111 ill his 11211110 we il2lYf' tried to 11111111106 the iclez1lis111 of this hook.

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T1 DR. RAYBORN ZERBY, Ph. D

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PREFACE Page Four The 1937 .llirror is an interpretation. YYitl1in these pages you will find no exaggerated element of color. spectacle. or buffoonery. No conscious attempt has been made. moreover. to vent personal bitterness on any group whether they be the fellersf' the faculty. or the grinds. Our medium. to be sure. is still the lens of the camera. and page after page will tell a fairly complete and comprehensive story in pictures. But underlying every picture and far more fundamental to our purpose is an idea . . . perhaps an ideal . . . that strives to suggest to under- graduates and faculty alike the possibilities of a Bates not merely glorious in its yesterdays and todays. but rich in its promise for tomorrows. It is possible. though hardly probable. that a year book may become a11 art form. Perhaps when editors are granted the privilege of being true to their own insights into college life, a year-book may some day exalt. with restrained enthusiasm the ideal of intellectual honesty and creativity that forever lies just over the hori- zon of every college hill. Within these pages we only hope to focus the vision of thinking 111en to a Bates enlightened by wise teachers, vigorous in its play spirit.. severe in its mental discipline. yet patient. and encouraging to its failures. We hope, perhaps, to suggest an alternative to any drastic change in curriculum that may result in an effort to meet the occasional decrease in seasonal enrollment. In the very simple arrangement of this book we express our faith that Bates can represent, if it will, the interests of a lower-middle class group in creative scholarship, original thinking, and constructive service in the world of men. Let us remember both our virtues and our faults. Fortunate are we in a campus cleared by clean winds and lying close to hills and meadowlands and coun- try-roads where men may walk with silence and their own thoughts. lYeihave challenged our professors to define an ideally educated man: our returns have been surprising both in munbers and in singleness of high purpose. Wvhen these men are willing to submerge personal differences and departmental jealousies into a la1'ge1' good that encourages and serves the intellectual curiosity of their students. Bates may well become a center where students are attracted by the light as well as the sweetness of its professors. Ultimately how far up theladder of light Bates may climb rests with the enthusiasm and scholarship of its undergraduate body. It was not without wisdom that a Garnet writer could suggest: Bates may well raise its standards. eliminate the unfit ruth- lessly, and encourage the young 111311 and woman who is so radical as to believe that a college should organize itself around the studies. Let us take great care. even at tl1e risk of a few lean years, to prefer a thinking to a drinking population. The college must function in tl1e interests of truth. By truth we mean an approximation of first principles, an attempt to give reasonable 2iI1SXV6I'S to our questions, the application of the ordering synthesis of our minds to the irrational nature of our sensations, the gift of form to experience. Always before us, student