Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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D'OZVIVTBROOK FAIR 1924 iiNatulre has set no limit to our hopesi, HINK of us whom you call tin singular and plural alikey, .1 faculty :- think of us not as members of the masters. but of the students' guild. Do not be disappointed if we fall short of eneyelopaedic omniscience, for it does not exist 011 earth; I have known even the Britannica to err. XVe are a group of people. hungry for Truth; we strive to arouse that divine hunger in you, rather than to satisfy it. For those who have never felt that hunger or.believe they have satisfied it are dead, though they know it not. It is our mission as teacher to show you how fair Truth is, 110w elusive and mocking, yet how altogether lovely and desirable, holding in her hands rich benefits. Some of these she scatters and those seize who pursue her, though they may never lay hold upon her. If we awaken within you that craving. if we point out the path she has taken along which the pursuit must follow. if we can bring you close enough so that you, too, may gather some of the rich gifts she strews behind. we have done all that you have a right to expect of us. And we have done much. for we have placed you on one of the roads to more abundant life. i Think of us. too, as good comrades. Books must always be your main business and ours, for they eushriue the experiences of myriads of minds in their quest for Truth. Had we all eternity: we might possibly dispense with books and experience everything at Erst hand, but life is so brief that we must needs do it vicariously. making use of the experience of others. Yet outside of books, each of us has the right to that narrower, but more Vivid contact with life, which is our personal experience. VYe want not only to lead you to the experiences of others as contained in books ; we want to share your own experi- ences in daily life. For we are not only fellow-students. we are fellmv-travclcrs and friends. Perhaps along this more personal path, you may stumble on some fresh approach to Truth. for her avenues are many: give us the privilege of being with you when you End it. EUGENE N. CURTIS. Seventeen