Mary Washington College - Battlefield Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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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.

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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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ART. Miss D. Duggan, Mr. J. Binford, Mr. E. R. Schnellock, Mr. G. Cecere, Dr. P. G. King. 1951 — Thirteen Faces September brought new personalities to the faculty ... to swell the total to eighty-eight. . . . Two were welcomed into the physical education department: Miss Rebecca Woosley, a North Carolinian . . . Miss Jane Bell, from way down in South Carolina, who replaced Miss Gratzer as house mother of Marye. . . . Three senoritas made their debuts into the Spanish department . . . Miss Evelyn BrignuU, of Tennessee, who served as hostess at Framar, the Spanish House . . . Virginian, Dr. Marion Greene, who formerly taught at the University of Maryland and Miss Rosemary Herman, hail- ing from North Carolina, who worked actively with the Y.W.C.A. ... Dr. Pauline King, of Norton, Virginia, who taught previously at the University of Chicago, entered the art department, completing a student-teacher cycle here. S - — j BIOLOGY. 1)1 . s I ' lii.t, Miss E. J. Whisenant, Dr. Z. W. C Black, Di. W . A. Castle, Dr. H. litis. CHEMISTRY. Miss H. H. Schultz, Dr. E. G. Insley, Dr. H. L. Cover, Mr. H. C. ShuU. ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. Mr. J. K. Roach, Dr. H. W. Hewetson, Dr. J. H. Dodd, Dr. M. H. Sublette, Mr. F. E. Miller. DRAMATIC ARTS AND SPEECH. Mr. C. W. Co.x, Miss M. H. Newell, Mr. J. VV. Warfield.