Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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where Charles Street broadens into a grand con- course. Here we changed at Greenmount for the Sherwood gardens and the Homeland bus. North- bound on Charles Street, Coucher rode into the territory of suburban Baltimore. Steering us into the midst of the commercial city, the downtown bus-trip brought a elose-up 0f the incongruous features of Baltimore, whose irregular profile we had seen from the top floors of Coucher. The Charles Street bus ran the gamut through the living center of the town, and on our way to a National Symphony concert at the Lyric, we heard the Baltimore prelude to Beethoven,s Seventh in the hurIy-burly of North Avenue traHic and the Pennsylvania Railroad roar. Beyond the showroom and gas station district loomed the Belvedere where sounded the brasses that we danced to, Opulent in evening wear. Sunday bells on Mount Vernon Place calling us to church chimed across the monumental square where we had walked on weekdays to the doors of the Peabody Conservatory of Music and the Walters Art Gallery. Just a little beyond the monument where the small shops begin, we buzzed for Franklin Street. Frivolous in mood7 0r studious by necessity, as the case might be, we either walked a block and sat down with a good book in Pratt Library; or we walked three blocks and seated ourselves in Fordis Theatre to watch a new play try-out for Broadway. From there on, Charles Street narrowed into the business district. On Lexington, main street of the city proper, trafhc Snme went duwntnwn tn others In study at Pratt shnp . . . lights reflected 011 wet, crowded pavements, and traHic horns mingled with the fog horns from the near water-front. Down-at-the-heels venders emerged from areaways t0 proffer shoe-strings and bouquets to the well-dressed Coucher girl. Hochschilds, Hutzlers and Stewarts stood together disputing for the Coucher market, vying for our pink checks with window displays of collegiate fashion. Keiths, the Hippodrome and the Century were ready to collect whatever change was left from the shopping costs; and in the absence of the price of admission to movieland, there was at least bus fare enough, with a two-trip slip, to ride self- righteously back to the hooks. From the height of Mount Vernon Place, the absurdly Victorian roofs of Vingolf and Fensal showing above the far tree tops, marked out Goucher 0n the uptown landscape. We got a per- spective 0n Goucher, riding back up Charles Street through the city that encompasses the college, on the bus that was such a disturbing element when it impeded our hurried way to an eighty-thirty class; the bus whose screeching airbrakes violated the library silence and upset our nightly dreams. But even as it disquieted life on campus, the bus noise was the voice that invited Coucher to join in the life of the town. And7 nearing the familiar brownstone house on the corner of Charles and Twenty-third Street, we pulled the signal cord and stepped out at this Coucher College that is7 through the courtesy of the Charles Street bus line, an active part of old Baltimore.

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

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We watched the world change an the news-maps . . . . . . and burruwed time and money fur theatre and muvius 27