Pasadena Junior College - Campus Yearbook (Pasadena, CA)

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THE DEANS JAMES P. OMARA, DEAN OF MEN, STUDENT BODY ADVISER, AND A. M. S. ADVISER CATHERINE J. ROBBINS, DEAN OF WOMEN AND A. W. S. ADVISER WHILE the modern age, with its variety of indust- trial and commercial activities, demands skill and efficien- cy to a greater degree than ever before in the history of the world, it also requires in our complex society a finer nature, a broader sympathy, a stronger and nobler char- acter than has been demanded in the past. It is, then, the problem of the young man of today to combine the neces- sary technical training with the finer and better things in life so as to be prepared to meet all of life ' s problems from day to day. James P. O ' Mara % MODERNISM means to me a higher level of achievement in worthwhile activities. It demands not only new ideals and practices, but also better ways of carrying out established customs. Those institutions and proced- ures which critics sometimes condemn as modern are in reality the result of failure to live up to modern standards. High ideals are inherent in modernism in a progressive society. Catherine }. Robbins

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JOHN W. HARBESON, PRINCIPAL OF THE PASADENA JUNIOR COLLEGE MODERNISM is not a rejection of all that is old and tried. It recognizes the continu- ity of history and the fact that each generation must build upon the heritage it has received from the past. Little hope indeed could be entertained for the future by one who has forsaken all faith in the past. Modernism consists of a thorough and critical study of the civilization we have inherited and an adaptation of it to the needs of the present, thus handing down to the generation to follow a culture that has been enriched and enlarged by our own experience. In making this contribution we must face the problems of our day with an open mind, and scientifically work out their solutions. John W. Harbeson THE PASADENA CAMPUS, JUNE, NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO

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TT IDA E. HAWES, DEAN OF GUIDANCE MODERNISM? As I see it, modernism is the trend of today to prove scientifically what the poets and philosophers of yesterday saw in a flash. We find this true in economics as well as the sciences. I t is especially true in education. One of the best of our contemporary educators, John Dewey, propounds as modern educational doctrine what Edwin and Mathew Arnold, Wordsworth and Cardinal Newman preached to an unheeding world decades ago. — Ida E. Hawes JOHN A. ANDERSON, DEAN OF RECORDS OUR SCHOOL offers striking examples of modern changes: only eight years ago we were a two-year junior college, which four years ago did the impossible by becoming a four-year school; as a result, no longer do throngs leave after the 12th year but continue through the upper division. Today, the rate of change is proportionate to the difference between the speed of the automo- bile and that of the horse and buggy of yesterday. Let us be ready for the other new things that are sure to come upon us. — John A. Anderson. THE PASADENA CAMPUS. JUNE, NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO