Boston University College of Practical Arts and Letters - Sivad Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Exclusive Interviews With P. A L Faculty By N. CASE c Shfh! Don't tell-but do you know, Weive got the shyest, most selffeffacing Faculty to be found in any college. Why, the members of our Faculty just hate to talk about themselves! The mere sight of the ' 'Interviewern was enough to prompt some of them to retire into a cloud of reticence. Now take the Short' hand Department, for instance .... Surely the instructors in that Depart' ment should be hardened to the sight of a student with a notebook in her hand. In fact, one would think that the mere sight of said student Cwith said notebookl would bring about the learned response of dictating. But no-the way of the Interviewer is hard. She must be amiable, tactful, and, above all, persistent. She must know how to seize time by the fetlock-and not let go!

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1 . i MARJORIE KBNNEY ' Eh? MIRIAM LAURETTA SCOTT ' Secretary to the Dean Vocational Counselor Ailminiztratiuv E Staff ALICE EMMA DYER CLARE IRENE PERRY Assistant to the Registrar Acting Librarian 14

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to f I JOSEPH RICHARD TAYLOR, A.B., A.M. Professor of English You ask for 'an experience, an anecdote, an impression, or a mes' sage.' Ch yes, there is no lack of any of these in my memories of P. A. L. An experience: The day when Kathryn Stark, '23, joined the brick layers' union and laid the corner stone of our fine new P. A. L. building. An anecdote: Cn a bright December day we P. A. L.'s all marched through the streets, Dean Davis at the head, on our way to Boston Common, where we appealed to the squirrels and the pigeons and the other habitues for contributions to the Boston Post Christmas Fund. And we got them, too! An imprgs, sion: P. A. L. is an Aer College, well managed, well taught, well equipped, with an Aer Ere department well 'manned,' or perhaps it would be more accurate to say well 'girled,' but I can't find this word in the dictionary. A message: Tell the world about P. A.L.! Show them what our graduates can do in business and in teaching. Bring father and mother and friends to the College, and let them see the beauty and the good cheer of our college life. EBENEZER CHARLTON BLACK, A.M., LL.D. Professor of English It gives me sincere pleasure to hand to the students of P. A. L. two significant quotations from my recent reading. The first is from a note that Dr. Benjamin jowett, the great Cx' ford teacher, sent to an old student who had complained of failure to obtain a position that would enable him to become all that at College he had dreamed he might be: 'I hope that you will not allow yourself to become the most miserable and conf temptible of all characters, a disapf pointed personf The second quota' tion is from Morley's biography of Gladstone. Referring to Gladstone's patience and courage during the halffcentury of obloquy and seeming neglect through which he passed before he became Prime Minister, Morley says: 'Through all these years, he upheld a golden lamp. He was inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling-not a mean and grovelling thing that we are to shuffle through as best we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny'. HENRY ROBINSON SHIPHERD, A.B., A.M., PH.D. Assistant Professor of English Yes, indeed, come right in. Born in the country, with red hair, and never got over it. Worked twelve years as a printer and linotype operator-can still tell a book from a sandwich. Learned A B C's at Harf vard, married in Brooklyn-never got over either one. Most interesting work? Crganizf ing the 8oth Division, A. E. F., and 16 later the First Army, into a studying army-trying to help three hundred thousand of the boys get ready to come back to the home jobs. Why am I teaching? Because I enjoy the English language and its literature, and like to share my pleasures. Not at all. Good luck, and goodfbyf'