Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Admission . . . it is Miss Riches who says yea or nay to the prospective freshman. Registration . . . until the schedule cards are proper- ly Hlled out and deposited with Miss Prohst no stu- dent dares enter the class- room. Student worries . . . whether the problem is last night's date or an F in math, Miss Rutherford can offer a solution. XVorking your way through college . . . Miss MeCurley can provide jobs from baby-minding at night to a permanent career. Lost and found, important keys, permission to use Bennett and Katy and campus . . . over these Mrs. Hayden presides. i ,--'fix ,M Drs lliller and Balter vtho diavnose and treat ti XM f x

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HE way in which students summarize administrative activities is lament- able. Dean Stimson receives classification as interviewer extraordi- naire and, with Dr. Torrey, as one of the presiding geniuses of chapel. Mr. Turner represents matters mathematical. Miss Conner is associated with overnights and late permissions. From Miss Riches come our letters of admission as Goucher freshmen. Miss Probst signifies the alpha and omega of curricula. Miss Rutherford means wise aid in adjust- ment to student problems. Miss McCurley stands for all things vocational. Such is the impressionistic sketch we draw of the administration and its tasks. VVe are always aware, however, that here is no mechanical performance of duties, but a thoughtful expression of interest in all phases of student welfare. From dean's slip to Deans List, supervised by Dr. Torrey and Dean Stiinson. Goucherls first financial vice-president . . . Permission to have and to hold social activities . . . Miss Conner grants it. 18 Mr. Turner increases Towson building funds.

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Elllll vY-COVERED walls, caps and gowns, an Alma Mater-for some people these represent the academic and scholarly. To. any student at Goucher, however, the faculty members are the most meaningful symbol of these qualities. The faculty stand for the best in our cultural heritage. Not content merely to transmit that heritage to us, they contribute to its growth and encourage and inspire us to do likewise. In times of peace we usually take these things for granted. In this year of turmoil and confusion, however, we are forced to reflect upon those privileges which we once thoughtlessly received. In such times as these the academic, the scholarly, the intellectual are no longer accepted casually but are recognized as priceless values. This was a disturbing year when customary patterns of life were upset by black-outs, rationing, and war news. Under these circumstances, more than ever before, we became aware of the intelligent guidance and friendly interest of our professors. The men and women who teach at Coucher have, through their conduct, shown us how to behave in a crisis. They have walked a middle course, neither that of pedant who hides from the world in his dingy cell nor that of short-sighted oppor- tunist who would put aside all culture for the duration. Qur professors have been helping in our country's time of war-they are learning to tie bandages and to extinguish incendiary bombs, they are planning for a better world order, they are instructing in newly important subjects, but more than all these, they are living as scholars and teaching us the values which will endure through war and peace. Calm and deeply thoughtful, our faculty is helping us face a perplexing future with confidence. In the classroom they have carried on Ubusiness as usual, but with a profound consciousness of the present. New connections between I-Iegel's philosophy and the totalitarian governments are seen, Milton's Areopagitica is linked closely with the question of censorship in war time. Even Dr. McDougle's Family Course considers the problems of the war-bride. We have been steadied by the procedure of the faculty and have worked with earnestness, realizing our opportunity of still being able to study. XVe have thrilled to hear our instructors declare the way of a scholar to be rewarding and then to see them live as if it were.