Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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mix? 33Hill Ggreater nguther 3321mm Erma in the Ehealia nf 30km glfmnklin Qmerher? HANS FROELICHER OUCHER College belongs to a group of institutions for higher learning in the east which have the same general educational objective and policy. What distinguishes Goucher College from other colleges is not. therefore. its curriculum or its academic eminence, both of which it shares with other east- ern colleges. It is rather its atmosphere, its way of looking at the world and responding to its environment, its individual attitude to- ward the problem of the education of women, its reaction upon the revolu- tionary modernism in society and in education, especially higher education. During the last decade and a half a changing world has compelled a modification of educational policy. The western democratic ideal of edu- cation, the Great War and finally the new political status of women are threatening the traditional educational ideal of the east with an annihilat- ing levelling process. It is diiiicult to say whether it is a freshening high tide or a devastating tidal wave. In its beginnings a small college, founded as a non-sectarian institu- tion, by the Methodist Church, made possible thru the liberality of Dr. and Mrs. Goucher, established in the city of Baltimoreethe gateway of the south with its historic traditions and 01d aristocracy survivingeit pos- sessed a most happy mixture of elements from both north and south of Ma- son and Dixon. Under influences both liberal and conservative, in an at- mosphere equally far from the ruthless energy of the north and the then still prevalent indolence and reactionary social attitude of the south, it promised under favorable auspices, an educational product no less efficient because of its being sympathetic, gracious and gentle. Indeed, Dr. Gou- Seventeen