Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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' J lmlllfzlim 'lf When he was a boy of thirteen, he did wood-engraving, which is now sup- planted by photography in advertising but coming into vogue again as an artistic expression. At that time, everything that is now photographed had to be drawn for the plates for the advertisements and to this early training may be traced his flair for etching, oil-painting, and sketching. He takes an intense delight in this Work and rather specializes in exquisite book plates. Everyone knows and loves the slender spires against the sky, 4-2-1 illustrations, and sketches on some of the Goucher stationery, but few people know that Dr. Guth himself is the artist. In the summer he sketches and paints under the clear skies of Maine. Last year, Mrs. Guth, Helen Louise, and he took possession of an aban- doned farm, down in Maine, unoccupied since 1910. The summer yaca- tion found the Guths pioneering. A long-cherished interest in chopping trees was there indulged and, not content with amateurish efforts even in this. Dr. Guth took lessons, during the summer, from two Maine woods- men, who had, as the saying is, gone into the woods when they were boys, so now he exercises professional skill in felling trees. When he isn't paint- ing nor wood-chopping, he swims and hikes and once he constructed an astonishing raft, on which he rode safely to the middle of an artiiicial lake on his grounds, but had to swim to shore when the raft became Water- logged and sank 5 one always likes to hear that his watch didn't even stop running. Such splendid ability for work and for play and for the happy com- bination of the two is a rare and wonderful gift. This brief glance into the life of a man whom we see so often and of whom we know so little, may serve to show of what stuff great men are made, for he is called a genius who can do one thing very well and Dr. Guth does not one, but many things, and excels in every one. - Twevzty-four

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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

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