Johns Hopkins University - Hullabaloo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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at ll W- I,-, f5,'sg1mrv1q ,, , ,- rf.-A-. -,f 4,--au...-,: 'r ls' 'ills X a ls LQ' '. .- l V. I as lured in bright-eyed hopefuls from the New England pre-schools-and the product, sub- jected for four years to an academic outlook that was anything but clubby, seemed subject to variations that made the solar spectrum look like a dot on the horizon. There was noth- ,j...--sv' .V P if '5 M551 ,Manx ,ul w H! 1' 'l ' , ,WH , .vv,, ., , A A V l ,. 4 -.rel . ing, in short, that you could say about Hop- kins men that wouldn't be true-but apply it to one of them, and 99 to 1, you'd be dead Wrong. The truth of the matter was, that in many minds, it was a paradox which took in both 120

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Goucherg but Esther Williams made a visit one night that still has them gasping. Liquor? Not a professional drinkers' school, perhaps, but the terrace after the annual moonlit hop was always Worth an appraising examination. In the end, try as they might, publication editors and View-book promoters coulcln't name the play. Hopkins was the place where admissions ofhce salesmen in gray tweeds Caided and abetted by public-relations hucks- ters who looked on Hopkins as something only a little short of four years on the Rivieraj 191

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extremes Cand still managed to get something over with bothj that gave the Hopkins under- graduate in 1949 his greatest distinction. And whatever pole of the collegiate dilemma Bronk might eventually embrace-and it seemed likely that, under him, Hopkins would again 211- become chiefly a graduate university-the undergraduates of 1949 deserved his scrutiny and attention. For them, it was the paradox, however tenuous, that made Hopkins the place it was-and they hoped it would last. JPD