Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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DEAN on THE CQLLEGE, Miss' Elizabeth seen, directs academic 'life at Goucher and inspires the students to further their scholastic Ndevelopment. 4.- THE REGISTRAR, Miss Mildred Covey, with her competent staff, registers new students, schedules class programs, and keeps all official college records. DEAN OF WOWIEN, Mrs. Everett Nichols, guides the students? social development andf co-ordinates the activities of the numerous organizations of the college. DEAN OF ADMISSIONS, Miss Mary, Ross Flowers, interviews prospective students and gives them a pre- view ofthe goals of the Goucher program of education. 13

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DR. OTTO F. KRAUSHAAR PRESIDENT or GOUCHER coLLEcE administration At the close of the college year at Coucher We join together to hear the annual state-of-the-college message delivered by our president, Otto F. Kraushaar. We of Donnybrook should like this year to reverse the procedure and express to Presi- dent Kraushaar our gratitude for the works accom- plished during his years at the college and our faith in the never ending quest for a Greater Goucher under his leadership. Through the most difficult years in Goucher's history, those years of transition from the old to the new, We have looked to him f or help and advice, ever confident in his judgment of immediate prob- lems in their relation to long-range considerations, he has been to us that stabilizing force so neces- sary to the purposeful continuation of a cultural organization. We have witnessed and have benefited by the ad- ditions, material and intellectual, made to Coucher College during the years of his administration. We celebrated the completion of the Julia Rogers Li- brary and the Hoffberger Science Building and saw the beginning of construction of the gymnasium, marking the completion of the first phase of our building program. We noted the introduction of the Ford advanced college entrance program, the graduate program in elementary education, and the Ford Self -Study Grant for curriculum examination, evaluating and advancing our educational develop- ment. And We are pleased and honored for the part that we, the students, have been able to play in this development, serving through the Students' Organ- ization, the College Council, and Student Curricu- lum Committee. But most of all, We are proud of Coucher College and are confident that through the leadership of President Otto F. Kraushaar we can continue to make progress toward the goal which he has set for us-the realization of an educational program in which 'cthe individual can inquire, learn, and develop to the fullness of her potentialitiesfi

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The acquisition and free and responsible use of knowledge has become a prerequisite for the maintenance of civilizationf' President Otto F, Kraushaar in l1is address entitled Knowledge, Security, and Freedom the free use of knowledge The theme of the Columbia University bicenten- nial celebration is HlVlan7s Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereoff' The reaflirmation of the values and responsibilities of knowledge is impor- tant in this period of what President Kraushaar has called Mintellectual recession? The steady rise of authoritarianism and the spirit of conformity in America is especially alarming to those of us who are students today, preparing f or articulate, respon- sible citizenship tomorrow. Vlfhat are the values and responsibilities of knowledge? Williani Ellery Channing in 1830 said that 4 the progress of society consists in nothing more than in bringing out the individual, in giving him a con- sciousness of his own being, and quickening him to strengthen and elevate his own mindf, This development of the individual is the goal for which Coucher College strives in its eight objectives of education. The development of the mind should not stop with graduation from college, for the C M scholar must go forward in his intellectual pursuit. The continual free exercise of the mind is an important part of rnan's use of knowledge. ln January, 1954 President Kraushaar spoke at the Enoch Pratt Free Library at a ceremony honoring the theme of Columbiais bicentennial. ln this talk, entitled Hlfnowledge, Security, and Freedomf' Pres- ident Kraushaar said, 'cThe impelling reason -for supporting the freedoms of the mind is that they are inherent in the method of scientific research and inquiry as well as being the root and stem of democracy. An open mind, a willingness to regard all conclusions as subject to possible revision as new evidence may require, is the hallmark of the reasonable man . . . The mission of the scholar in these days when we are playing for time is to man the defenses for that life which can be won only through the slowly working processes of education and creative thought . . . It is time 'now to work for the revival of reason. May We accept the challenge.