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

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.Lf, CHARLES ST. JOHN, A.B., A.M. Instructor in Education Mr. St. john attributes many of the troubles of the average college girl to the fact that she has too many selves She has a Sundayfgoftof church self, a Mondayfgoftofwork self, a home self, and a college self. The real work of the college girl lies in the reconciliation of these various selves. Be yourself! --that is the secret of personality and success. Try to harmonize these selves, not by compromise, but by a careful study of your own individual problem. See that you have one wellfharmonized. integrated self, and-be yourself! This is most important. MONDELL MORTON Bossa, B.S., M.A., PH.D. Lecturer of Sociology What appeals to me in P. A. L. is its spirit of youth, joyous, spontanef ous, challenging, its good number of able students, industrious and alert, the neverffailing courtesy and attenf tion accorded to every one by the staff in the administrative ofhcesg and even the ingenious tales of catastro- phic occurrences, intricate twists of fortune, and peculiar decrees of fate, tendered as an excuse by those who are ,overtaken 'unprepared' by an untimely quiz. We surely are not fond of quizzes! A JOHN PATTEN MARSHALL Professor of Music Professor Marshall: Music ap' preciation contributes to general culture. Students who are training for secretarial work and for business ordinarily do not have sufficient opportunity to keep in contact with the fine arts while they are in College, and after they leave College, they are usually too busy. Interviewer: Whats do you think of jazz? Professor Marshall: jazz is an expression through music of the feelings of these times. It belongs to the class of folk music. Some of it is very enjoyable and clever, even artistic. And, on the other hand. there is a good deal of it that bears about the same relation to serious music as the comic section of the newspapers to serious painting and drawing. 23

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I , 1 ROBERT EDWARD HUSE, B.B.A. Lecturer in journalism Once a week, although a confessed publicity man, I turn lecturer at P. A. L., and once a week I come away from the College with a new increment of inspiration. A captain of industry once said that a Conf gressional investigation is a joke, but that the thing to be respected is a persistent reporter. With nothing to conceal, I now find that my suspicious but unwitting reticence has called for the uttermost enterprise on the part of the SIVAD representative in capturing an interview. Wishing to make amends, I take opportunity to say that the persistence and tact of the interviewer but epitomize the fine qualities which in its students and graduates are making P. A. L. justly famed. An unexcelled student body at P. A. L. finds unusual educational opportunity. This fact, refimpressed unfailingly each week, is invigorating both to the lecturer and to the uni' versity publicity man. The inter' viewer feels unworthy of such praise. ELIZABETH MAODONALD, A.B. Professor of Household Economics Mrs. Macdonald finds at P. A. L. a most unusual group of girls who successfully combine earnestness and fun. This is the only college of its kind, so far as she knows, where this happy combination is possible. At P. A. L. we can find the cultural and the practical training which every girl needs for her ultimate vocation- homemaking. With the girls and the courses ofered here, we are on our way to make history. THEODORE J. KREPs, A.B., A.M. Lecturer in Economics Mr. Kreps was somewhat nonf plussed to be approached by a breath' less interviewer. We gather, however, that he is absorbingly interested in the subject of Money and Banking, and yearns to communicate that fire of interest to the young ladies at P. A. L. He regrets that he is allotted but two hours a week in which to try to focus attention on questions of 22 such vital importance to feminine citizenry. He feels afraid that the girls do not share his regret, although several, he believes, have felt some urge toward undertaking the intolerf able toil of thought. He wishes to express his gratitude for the unalloyed pleasure of contact with P. A. L. students.

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l A HAROLD LIVINGSTON PERRIN, A.B., A.M., LLB., LL.M., Ph.D. Professor of Commercial Law Dr. Perrin gave me the startling and gratifying news that girls learn law better than boys do! This he attrib- utes to the fact that girls are more analytical, while boys possess a more logical turn of mind. Girls also devote more time to law. He declares that a study of law teaches us to know what we are doing when we make a contract. He warns us to be careful of what we say, and to tell the truth-if possible. When asked for a humorous experi- ence, he said he considered being interviewed for his life history one of the funniest. Bridge, chess, golf, and Hshing are his favorite pastimes. HAROLD JUDSON SMITH, B.B.A. Professor of Accounting Professor Smith told me a little story that I think will interest every girl who takes Accounting. When he first came to P. A. L., he was told that girls could not learn Accounting -a fact which disturbed him not a little. After teaching here for three years, however, he has discovered that this theory is wrong. The Accounting Department has grown, and he attributes that growth to two things: First, there is need for knowlf edge of Accounting in business, and second, young women are as keen to see the requirements of the times as young men are. I EARLE OLIVER AMES Instructor in Mathematics and Accounting L Mr. Ames is one of the faculty members who really appreciates our school picnics. He suggested that we have two picnics a year instead of only one. By careful inquiry I learned that his favorite recreation is playing baseball or tennis with the students 24 and winning from them. He hesitated to add anything more, because he approaches a broadcast to SIVAD readers as some people apparently approach their initial radio broadcast -in a state of fear and trembling. EOA signing off.