Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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DEPARTMENTAL HEADS UPPER LEFT: Miss Rutherford, Psychologyg Dr. Langdon, Biology: Dr. King, Physiology. UPPER RIGHT: Dr. Bar- ton, Physics, Dr. Lloyd. Chemistry, Dr. Lewis, Mathematics. LOXVER LEFT: Dr. XVins- low, Political Scienceg Dr. Pancoast, Economics and Sociology. LOVVER RIGHT: Dr. Lonn, Historyg Dr. Crane, Education. Our social contacts with the faculty have meant much to us this year. At the Campus Party we watched Dr. Ashton in his wild plaid shirt and red hat sock a homer. At department teas we saw austere pedagogues transformed into real persons who were learning to drink tea without sugar. Looking at the Hessian soldier hre-irons of Dr. Beatty and his new wife, stroking Tom Thumb, the great black Persian cat belonging to Dr. Bussey, talking to Dr. and Mrs. Curtis at VV inter Cotillion, walking to chapel with the Dean, examining Dr. Nitchie's Blake drawing and Dr. Hopkins' first editions were high points in our year. To find our faculty living normally in this war-tossed world has been a constant challenge to us. To chat with them of flowers and books, to laugh together at Thurber, to gain new stability from their composed behavior and to be inspired by their devotion to truth are opportunities we appreciate. Cnr own puzzling problem of duty-whether we should continue

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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.

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UPPER LEFT: Dr. Beardslcy, Romance Languagesg Dr. Coodloe, Gerznang Dr. Beatty, English UPPER RIGH'I'l Dr. Petran, Musicg Dr. Spencer, Fine Art. LOXVER LEFT! Dr. Hawes, Philosophyg Dr. Andrews, Rcligiong Dr. Bmunlich, Classics. LOXVER RIGHT: Miss Gannnons, Head Cataloguerg Miss Fallcy, Librarian. 0ur faculty brings us guidance and support in war-time living .