Occidental College - La Encina Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Dr. Robert Freeman, President Board of Directors: Dr. Rcmscn D. Bird, President Occidental College

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guages, both subjects guaranteeing unfailing daily lessons and tortuous compre- hensives. Two departments there are to which certain students are drawn by a sort of destiny, Those with a religious bent congregate in Dr. Ballard's class- rooms and store up ammunition for anticipated assaults upon the heathen. And the education division is a magnet of inescapable power for an appalling propor- tion of each year's class. The student looks beseechingly at the field of possible professions, resigns himself to fate, and works to grasp the credential and promise of a future job which Dr. Sinclair dangles before his eyes. The department at- tracts extremes in type, ranging from the zealous already enmeshed in practice teaching, to malcontents still hoping for escape or a millionaire, and to indolents, principally physical education fanatics. Across the quad, Fowler grinds marshall themselves under Dr, Smiley for biol- ogy and Zoology, Dr. Chandler for chemistry, Mr. Richardson for physics, and Dr. Allen for mathematics, The more aesthetic departments are isolated in the music building and upper floor of the library: art under Mi,ss Cunningham, and music from Mr. Hartley. The student sees Miss Hodgson and Mr. Kei nholz be- moaning the indifference to corpore sano on the part of some of Qxy's men and women, and observes with apprehension the departmental drive against the flat foot and chest. Whateveif the student chooses among this array, he Hnds himself carried for- ward with a body of like-creatures called his Class. He participates in voting for its officers -- preferably for ones as capable as Donovan Maiim, VVilhelmina Thomas, Muriel Goodheart, and Victor Lytle-and consciously or uncon- sciously helps form its history. He goes to the Senior-Iunior Prom, he watches the tree committee plant its little oakg he listens to the chimes and thinks that his class can do better than thatg he puts on the uncomfortable cap and gown, feels a bit silly, sits for a solemn hour or two hearing that he is on the threshold of life, then, bingo, here is the diploma converting him in an instant into an alumnus. Sadly, he has read the annual and noticed that the other classes have been carrying on much as usual: the frosh have stuck out their tongues at the sophs and the sophs have spanked them for it. The juniors have managed to find something to do, if only to elect oflicers. Things will go on without him, he concludes. His only refuge is the Alumni Association. He will attend the lecture series-some- thing he may have neglected as an undergraduate. He wonders if he will be asked to pay dues. 5

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