Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Dr. Hopkins 0886-1890 the most perfect development of the mental nature of women. Under this atmosphere Gaucher College has grown. Now Dr. David Allan Robertson has brought to Gaucher an appreciation of the fineness of our past, a vital interest in our present, and the assurance of a Greater Gouchef' which will be a continuation of those idealsformulatedjifty years ago. Dr. Robertson 0930- e

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9N EDICATED TO THE CONTINUANCE OF THE IDEALS . . . . . CONCEIVED BY THE FOUNDERS The stajr of Donnybrook Fair dedi- cates this Fiftieth Anniversary issue to those ideals of the founders so nobly expressed by Dr. John F. Gaucher and so ably followed by each Gaucher president. Our founders felt that higher education for women should ofer two things. One is breadth of culture to secure a widened horizon, knowl- edge of self, mastery of self, enlargement of personality, more varied sym- pathies, and largest eficiency. Running side by side with her broadening culture, should be such intensive work as will add to her discipline and furnish conditions for a joyous vacation, or, if need be, serve as the basis of a vocation? tDr. Gaucher, Nov. 30, 19009 Thus Dr. Goucherts ideals were for

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m Dr. Goucher presents the plans of the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Church for the founding of a womanhs college, 1884.