Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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vs . 'fu fa h e l 1 a it ff Jie Ri fi X235 brook!! 5 1 .film X mimi, lm 2317. Qguthf-the glillan QSM- ww ITH Dr. Guth as the president of Goucher College, I Q J we, as students, may claim a certain acquaint- X. , ' U ance, but the majority of us are familiar with QE iii this aspect only of a truly many-sided man. While fs -'?,f.. so many of us waste hours happily reciting all Q ul we have to do, the president goes ahead quietly X ' and does things. The Stanford Al'ZLlll7Z'MS credits , Q him with substantial achievements as a journal- JLT' .Q ist, a lawyer, a clergyman, a scholar, a teacher, a Us eo college executive, an author, and a lecturer and it emphasizes the fact that, above all, he is not a skimmer and flitterf' Here is an imposing list, and these varied occupations have been founded upon and have led to a multiplicity of outside interests-for even the president of a college has extra-curricular activities. Due to lack of time and a need for a more complete escape, in his leisure hours, from the necessarily exacting duties of his work, Dr. Guth has not published recently. He has, however, established his reputation as an author by numerous magazine and newspaper articles and by four books: The Assurance of Faith, Spiriftaal Values, Revelation and Its Record, and The Teachers Teacher, published between 1910 and 1914. An elaboration of his doctor's thesis, Die aeltere Schficht in den Erzaeh- lzmgen aeber Saul and David, is quoted by Professor Stanley A. Cook of Cambridge University, England, in his article on Saul in the Ency- clopedia Britamzica.. His reputation as a scholar is based largely on his work along these lines. After he had received his S. T. B. degree and had gone to Europe for further study, he found philology particularly helpful and so special- ized in Hebrew. When he had received his Ph. D. from Halle, he spent several months travelling through Asia Minor, Africa, and Palestine, con- tinuing his studies. This explains his interest in books on archaeology, which make up a large part of his library. He has a large library of biography and autobiography and is par- ticularly interested in personal reminiscences, as well as in books on archaeology and art. With the pride of the true collector, he tells of two out-of-print and long sought for volumes of the memoirs of Napoleon, telling of his expedition to Egypt, which were picked up for a song in a book store by the Seine, just because the binding happened to attract the eye of the book-lover. The books on painting are of interest to the artist, for, though Dr. Guth has never studied art, he has worked in every medium except pastel. Twenty-three