Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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We studied . . . and played . . . and ate . . .

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Hea ds 0f Halls. Miss Rutherford, Mrs. Webster, Miss Connor, Mrs. Hublilzell, Miss Parmll. Miss Smilhers, Mrs. Mott, Miss Tapley, Mrs. Rutledge tnot picturerD. Dr. Baker Dr. Hiller Mrs. Hayden T0 . y 1 . dslupmane THERE was no 6tlights out'7 for the Dorm girl. N one but she who had the best and the worst of college could fmd quite so many good reasons for putting off When the sun shone hot, it was a simple matter to carry the books into the evil hour of concentration. Fensal Court, and plead eye strain for neglecting them. The smoker gatherings were cut through With cries of atelephone, play bridge;7 Hcome t0 Robertsf, 4tWThat did he say last nightiw Between eight and ten-thirty, quiet was a sign on the wall. With one car on the elevator creaking up and down its amazing cables, the other ear attuned to a voice from the air-waves, both eyes looked blankly at the printed page. What chance for the Dorm girl to get those term papers written except in the dawn of their day due? Baltimorek all-night station WITH spoke for us when it dedicated a four-oyclock swing tune to the Coucher girls who were spending a night of crammind. 97 46

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IM . . . we looked out across bedraggled backyards and alleyways to where, spread tall against the sky, spires and smokestacks outlined the history of our town. As Baltimore City grew in stature and extent, raising itself up along Charles Street, it walled in the gray stone buildings on the scant campus yard, but it set no boundaries for a GouCher girl. Surrounded by new halls of amuse- ment and learning, Coucher looked more and more to the town, attuned itself to city life and supple- mented its schedule with city activities. Here, living alongside the college world of ideas, was every concrete and asphalt aspect of the real world ready to be exploited in the cause of a liberal education. Baltimoreys t4Broadway traveled through the Coucher campus, an indignity for the college, perhaps, but not without compensations, for7 Via the Charles Street bus line, Coucher traveled through the City. The shortest distance between all points north and south of Twenty-third Street was the line of the Baltimore Transit, bus A, University Parkway. Upper North Charles Street was the road to cultureea direct route to lectures at the Maryland Academy of Science and Hopkins9 Levering Han. Charles Street was an impressive approach to the Baltimore Museum of Art, which looked down with a classic dignity upon dogs and children running loose and old men reading papers on the wooden benches 0f Wyman Park. Jouncing along on the green leather bus seats, we saw the scene change from row on row of four-fioor walk-ups fronted by the legendary white marble steps, to the impos- ing apartment houses that skirt the Hopkins7 circle