Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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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

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

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All year round, Mt. Vernon Place enriched lllll' cultural background 25