Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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FOREWORD N the last quarter of the nineteenth century, religion and science, lphilosophy and politics, daily thought and national policy under- went cataclysmic upheavals with the advent of new discoveries and the building up of new systems in respective fields. The controversy over Darwinism and Blendelianism raged high. The philosophic break With absolutism, the cry of Nietzsche who assigned to man the task of facing his earth-born destiny With just his earth-born powers rang loud and harshly in the ears of the world. The great nations were taking part in the frenzy of imperialism, and the world, all unaware until the turn of the century, lay rocking 0n the edge of chaos. During the period of transition, America, in the face of the gracious though suppressive Victorian mode, revived with an almost revolutionary fervor an interest in the education of woman. First, seminaries were opened throughout the country; later, bodies of higher learning arose and fuIl-Hedged colleges appeared upon the scene. Outstanding among these was Goucher College, founded in I 885, in Baltimore, Maryland. A Speech given last spring by Nlr. C. W. Baldwin, one of the original founders of the college, began a three-year celebration of the fiftieth an- niversary of Goucher College. The year nineteen hundred and thirty- eighth will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of classes. This year, however, nineteen hundred and thirty-hve, celebrates the fif- tieth anniversary of the founding of the college. As part of the three-year observance, therefore, it is the endeavor of this book to retrieve by what small artihces it may, the Victorian Havor and atmosphere of Goucheris earliest days, leaving a further elaboration to some later yeafs record.

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DR. LOUISE KELLY

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ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY