Mary Washington College - Battlefield Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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In GW ' s Shadowy Halls A Future Was Formulated Twenty-five years and a generation hence, the returning grad will see the brick and con- crete realization of today ' s dream. The Fine Arts Building will have been in use for two decades. The Student Activity Building will have gone up over what is now the indoor swimming pool . . . indoor games, informal dancing, card rooms, and bowling alleys . . . only a few of the facilities offered. The age of the parlor date will be only an amusing memory. Over on what was the old golf course, beyond the Fine Arts Building, new dorms will have risen ... A good walking shoe will be a campus requisite. And as always, progress will bring the sentimental, Do you remember when? Edgar E. Woodward, Treasurer Mrs. Ruth Seawright Wade, Deaji of Freshmen Reynold H. Brooks Director of Public Relations Mrs. Margaret S. Russell Director of Student Personnel Louis C. Guenther, Registrar Dr. Warren G. Keith Director of Admissions

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AND FACULTY DR. EDWARD ALVEY, JR. Dean of Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia 1951— The Powers That Be Planned Further Expansion is once again the favorite dance at the college prom. Twenty-five years ago, Mary Washington was a State Teacher ' s College. It was three years before the present president, Dr. Morgan Combs, was to replace Mr. A. B. Chandler, Jr. The first Dean of Women, Mrs. Charles Lake Bushnell was in the office she held for twenty- nine years. There were thirty members on the faculty. Frances Willard, Betty Lewis, Vir- ginia and Monroe Halls were the four build- ings on a campus of about sixty acres. Monroe served as the Administration and classroom building, with the post office on the first floor, and a swimming pool in the basement. The dining hall, Dean ' s office and Tea Room, or forerunner of the C Shoppe, were in Willard. The President ' s office and the library were on the first floor of Virginia. Y.W.C.A. was the most prominent organiza- tion on the campus. A modified version of Stu- dent Government had been in existence for eleven sessions. In 1951, a new era is underway at Mary Washington. The college is now a part of the University of Virginia with a Liberal Arts program. The campus consists of 381 acres with seventeen buildings. The student body has tripled; the faculty and staff number over a hundred. Administrative thought is still keyed to further expansion.

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Profs Say Student Is The Grand Enigma— And Vice Versa The professor slipped behind the desk. An- other eight-thirty. They ' d be worse than usual. Well, nothing to do but call the roll. Adams, Amison, Bowers . . . absent . . . too bad more of them couldn ' t be. . . . Who ever conceived of the Saturday class anyway? . . . It ' s impos- sible for students to comprehend anything on a Saturday. ... If I could only get on with the research . . . bet no one has hit on that angle . . . too obvious. . . . Now, where did I stop after the last lecture? . . . They ' ll think me a dundering idiot ... do anyway. . . . Miss Adams has her knitting again. How can that boy use so many socks? . . . and Mary ought to remember to darn mine. . . . No won- der I can ' t find the place, I forgot to prepare any notes. . . . Class, this morning we will have a short quiz. Last meeting, you ' ll re- member we talked about . . . not that each and every one of you hasn ' t forgotten what the last lecture was all about . . . the mate- rial in the ninth chapter. Give me a short resume of its content. And by short, I mean at least three pages. . . . What ' s that, Miss Kane? You don ' t understand? . . . I ' ll bet you don ' t. . . . How many letters did you write last time? . . . Let ' s save that for the end of the period, please. You ' d better start on the question. Now, what did I say about that last time? ... I do remember telling them something. . . . The stalling these girls do is amazing. . . . Show me three of them who know what a college education is all about . . . wasted on the young. . . . Now, if I can just complete the story, it may sell . . . the roof needs fixing, so does the. . . . There ' s the bell. . . . Hand in the papers, please. Your assign- ment is on the board. . . . And don ' t tell me you have work in other classes, I ' ve heard it too often . . . my own stupidity. . . . Now, I have all those tests to correct. The prof had his own outside reading to do. One student always wanted the test early. Six days a week, the prof lectured to the letter-writers, knitters, magazine-readers, manicurists and nap-catchers who are called students.