Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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SITE OF GOUCHER. BEFORE THE COLLEGE WAS BUILT THE BUILDING OF GOUCHER HALL

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The Bell of the Rottmda By Kate Waters F ROM a college where llour young menll are trained for the work of God to one where flappers are turned into philosophers is quite a jump, but the little bell always was adaptable. 1t tinkled the earnest youth of the class of 1776, of Cokesbury College, the first Methodist college in the country, to classical studies with the same spirit with which it summons the Goucher of 1922 to her studies of Evolution and Revolution. During the first days of Goucher the little bell came to know names that; the young ladies lovedeDr. Goucher, Dr. Van Meter, Dr. Welsh and Dr. Froe- licher. From its lofty station over the alcove by the front door, it saw unhygien- ically-clad maidens sweep their long skirts through corridors, and into sunny class-rooms where, as now, they listened raptly t0 the learned dissertations. Always the college stood for progress. The courses of study became broader. The young ladies gave up croquet and enthusiastically embraced basket-ball and other rough games. But after a while dark days came. The enormous sum of one million dollars must be raised immediately, or Goucher College would die as a gallant attempt. The little bell rejoiced to see all the school united in a mighty effort. It remem- bers girls who made sacrifices cheerfully; it holds those sacrifices as an integral and valuable component of Goucher tradition. Finally, one man came whose strong efforts saved the college as a heritage for the future. Today the bell is happy again. It knows that Goucher is to move to a Prom- ised Land of woods and streams and meadow. Surely the 01d order changethll and the little bell knows it changeth for the best. Its jingle has taken on a new and deeper toneethe keynote 0f the Goucher of tomorrow.