Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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We Who Have Gone Before In future days, beneath dim, rosy sunsets Gouchefs gray towers, tall, shall pierce the sky; And the long cherished Greater Coucher symbols, Hallowed by all these dreams of days gone by- Glow with old Coucher's farereHected spirit, Formed by strong hopes, and eager hearts, and true, Gateway to dreams fulfilled, and missions ended; A place insured for Gold and Noble Blue. But we, the first to enter through the archway Of visions substantialized and hopes secured, Shall not be blinded Wholly by its glory; Shall not forget the past, the future it assured. To older Gaucher now deserted, sacred, The home where dreams too sweet to trust grew true, We shall proclaim our wealthier tribute, And know a deeper love for Gold and Noble Blue. m:l Seven

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DONNT'BROOK FAIR 1924 The Story of a Dream REATER GOUTCHER has become a magic word. It is idelltihed in the thought of the present college generation with broad spaces, far Vistas, quiet Cloisters; in a word, with all that we now lack. It is a sort of open sesame to the ideal. Incredible as it may seem, this phrase, so much a part of Goucher thinking in these later days, has in reality been on the lips of students and alumnae for a scant two years. h421ii has had as yet only one birthday. But the ideal back of these words is older than the phrase. The dream of a greater Goucher has had a long history, without which the slogan itself could have little vitality today. Step by step during years of tireless effort the dream has become actual until today tt421 needs neither argument nor justification. Believing in the certainty of a NGreater Goucher is no longer an act of faith, for in a very real sense the Greater Goucher has already come. The casual Visitor of an hour sees that we are bigger than our surroundings, and that moving day has become imperative. But ten years ago when one room in Goucher Hall housed the entire college library, when the third floor was only a storeroom, and the Rotunda offered ample audience room for Agora plays and the like, it required faith to dream of a greater Goucher. The college of that day would have looked rather lonesome set down in the midst of four hundred and twenty-one acres. Moreover, if the Vision of a greater college had been concerned in the beginning with a spacious campus and noble bnilings only, we might never have needed them. It is because the dream was rather of an institution that deserved to be known and sought more widely, that such a college has come to pass. Now it is time to think of slogans, of campaigns, and of our ultimate transplanting. The Hnew campus is the first pledge of fulfillment, and t0 the students of this college generation a very dear pledge. The present Juniors and Seniors will always feel that the campus itself with its cornfields and its uncharted spaces belongs to them in a peculiar sense. Their sister classes will, we trust, have the same intimate memories of corner-stones, steel framework, and scaf- folding. In turn, the classes to come after them will each treasure its own unique participation in the ushering in of the ner day. Those of us who share in the large satisfactions of Goucheris present and anticipate eagerly her more triumphant future, take joy in remembering that this vision of larger things has been from the beginning pre-eminently the vision of the one under whose wise generalship the college of today has been led to the very threshold of her larger hope. After ten years spent in the laying of broad foundations, it is more than ever his dream and his one absorbing ambition. But no longer his alone. He has made his own faith and enthusiasm for the new day, the faith and enthusiasm of the hundreds who belong to the college of yesterday and of today. Since 1923 marks the com- pletion of his first ten years at Goucher, and since the rounding out of a decade always invites to retrospect, it is pleasant in this anniversary year thus to pay tribute to the courage, the faith, the large Vision of President Guth. As the great public campaign opens, he has in larger measure than ever before, our admiration, our co-operation, our love. OLA E. WINsLow. Nine