Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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anced by the success we are promised in this great undertaking. In truth, I will confess to you what befell me this morning as I walked beside the marble pool amidst the beauties of the sunken garden. The towers of the chapel glistened so alluringly and the blueness of Loch Raven shone so clear in the distance that I forgot completely the manner in which I should disport myself. I removed my sandals and waded in the water! Imagine my discomfiture, then, when the wife of our good Sheyk Doctor McDougle passed by with the baby, on their morning outing. But she smiled very sympathetically, and not at all disapprovingly, and I have concluded that the inhabitants of our Faculty Row are rather more human than we have guessed. HI heartily commend your conclusion, my very dear sister. I fear some- times that we are hasty and slow to appreciate our advantages. Only today, when I was doing research on the customs and traditions of the Pageant of the May, I came upon a quaint bit of history in an old Donnybrook. I had no idea, my dear sister, that the name was of such ancient extraction. Are you too engaged in your work to hear this tale? HTruly, not. I have been forced to read from the writings of another of these Western philosopherswone Plato, whose profundity is very depress- ing. I had thought to take myself to the golf course, after a while, for rejuvenation; but listening to you, fair sister, is much more to my liking, for in the telling of a tale you are ever a close rival to our lady Scheherazade. Proceed! ! l Jh'stozy 01f 4:24 OKING down the pathways of tomorrow, we see in the distant horizon, Visions of lofty spires and ivy-clad walls; yet our dream of a Greater Goucher is such an omnipresent reality that we are prone to forget that there ever was a yesterday, with one master dreamer to fashion the fabric which developed into our own cherished UFour-Two-Onef, If we would discover the entire history of this movement, we must look back fourteen years to the report submitted by Dr. Guth to the Board of Trustees, citing the desirability of the removal of the college to a less con- gested area, which would not only facilitate inevitable expansion, but also more adequately cope with present needs. This report was presented in Decem- ber, 1914, one year after Dr. Guth had assumed the presidency of Goucher College. However, the financial status of the college was not of suflicient E501

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1w9 .1 , Jamaapnf c t y cc Open ylesamely n Y DEAR SISTER, said the Princess Periezade. uI have stirred myself from mine alabaster couch to greet you with most amazing tidings. Our good father, the Emeer Four-two-one of Campaigna, haS'sent us a Maypole 0f the rarest sandalwood and jacinth. Even now, down in the amphitheatre by the waters of the Donnybrook the maidens of our committees are directing our father's slaves in the intricacies of setting it up. In addition to that, my dear beloved-one, he has sent us chests of cur- tains and silks worked with wondrous embroideries. They will make gay with splendor the couches of the amphitheatre, and will render our pageant truly splendid. I have forgotten also to mention that the lotus-buds are blooming luxuriantly on the water which fronts the stage. uBe seated, most respectful sister. You are exciting yourself in a most unmaidenly manner. But I cannot chide you. I. too, am somewhat unbal- l29l

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strength at that time to permit of the assumption of the much larger burden needed for expansion. Just how necessary was this expansion may be seen from the fact that the original three dormitories were constantly being supplanted by unsatis- factory and unnecessarily expensive remodelled apartment houses. With only a small Catherine Hooper Hall, no Chapel, an Alfheim whose upper stories were fraternity rooms, and no Vanaheim, the class room space, too, had to be continually expanded. The neighborhood was becoming less desirable each year. In fact, every logical consideration pointed to the removal of the college to some more favorable location in the vicinity of Baltimore. However, the entrance of the United States into the war, in 1917, frustrated all plans, and made continuation in this line of endeavor highly impracticable. Thus, it was not until 1919, when prices had decreased suHiciently and peace was once more restored, that the plan could become one of action. But another problem had to be faced. On May 28, 1920, Dr. Guth received a telegram from the General Education Board, announcing its intention to appropriate $400,000 to the college endowment fund, to be utilized in the increase of salaries, payable on June 2, 1923, if the college had raised $600,000 by that date. After considerable discussion, it was decided to include the two interests in one, and Goucher strove for one million dollars for endowment in addition to the five million dollars necessary for uthe removal of the college to an ample and more desirable sitef' The problem became a new one, with dennite restrictions and time limits, and Goucher found not a few competitors at its heels. The year of 1921 was particularly eventful. In February the Alumnae Council met and voted on the plan which was to be utilized in raising the lirst million, HThe Alumnae Million. In May the campus, an old estate of 421 acres, situated near Towson, was purchased. This campus will probably be larger than that of any other womanls college in the country, one whose beauty and natural advantages need no description. Announcement of the siX million dollar campaign came at Commencement and Dr. Guth remained at college all summer to work out the campaign method. The coincidence of the 4-2-1 dollars was discovered, and on August 4th notices left the college Room 421, Goucher Hall, now became the scene of stirring events. at may be of interest to know that those numbers happened to be left over from Midgard and were nailed on the Presidentls oche door by Dr. Guth himself, when the 4-2-1 campaign was in its very small infancyj In the days which followed the announcement of the campaign, it is impossible to separate Dre Guth's name from every enterprise. He it was who invented the campaign slogan; he selected the campus and wrote the check for the first payment; he put up the first sign on the campus; he bombarded the alumnae with literature; he drew three etchings, among them the well-known Goucher towers. It was he who capitalized every idea that could be drawn from newspapers, current magazines and books so that he became known as an extremely able publicity manager; he inspired the alumnae and students to highest pitch, even going so far as to issue a pamphlet of practical suggestions on ways and means of actually obtaining the $421. 1311