Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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The sum of its parts, ez mf! of the total. ln December, just before the Christmas week- end of Compets, Christmas Pageant, Glee Club Vespers, Stu-G Formal, and Olde English Dinner, Simmons Student Government was hostess to the Greater Boston Student Government Council. At this meeting, with representatives from twenty-six Boston colleges, Eleanor Tufts was elected chair- man of the Greater Boston Councilg and out of this and later meetings ofthe Council came the serious realization of how much greater in many respects is the self-government of Simmons students than that permitted in other colleges, both in Boston and in the rest ofthe country. This realization underscored the Christmas festiv- ities that are traditions sponsored by classes, clubs, and Student Governmentg it Was the theme that accompanied subsequent Stu-G activities. The traditions like Bib Party, Pops Night, Field Day, 7 Workshop, the library-loan plan, the toy drive, and Forum, are important in themselves. But these and all the other activities that have added immeasurably to the academic and profes- sional areas of college life assume much greater importance indications of the scope and security of individual and group responsibility Simmons students have attained in forty-seven years. Re- sponsibility, respect, and freedom become synony- mous when applied to students governing them- selves through their own Student Government. .Siomellving doing every dm' af Ibe zreek for Effeu Mamzing. Junior Welcoming Committee, Hall Table, May Day, and the innovations that included this year the student production of H.M.S. Piimfore, Stu-G The V.P.'.r talk it over, feb Black, fmze Bzzxfon. 29 EDWARD W. BOK if KAISER WILHELM f MARSHAL FOCH

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The lvwmmble Mi.r.r jane Baud. We are Stu- . . . This year Student Government Council started in September with the Workshop to coordinate the year's plans for student activities through clubs, committees, and publications. The plan to ask for volunteers before all student nominations was put into operation. A political forum, an all-college organization, was proposed early in the school yearg its purpose is to integrate and strengthen political activity, assembly programs on current political questions, and to precipitate Wider inter- est in community, state, national, and international governments. Temporary officers were elected to a provisional executive board, representatives of the political forums of other colleges were invited to speak at Stu-G open meetingsg the proposed Forum constitution was posted on Stu-G's bulletin board. By February, Forum was ready to be voted on, and during the two days of balloting an overwhelming majority of the students ratified the Constitution and the Forum became a major branch of 1949's Stu-G. Cbrirt11za,r forma! mmm az knockout , . . May Day :newly the rtmzdourr. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE if ORVILLE WRIGHT if FRITZ KREISLER

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'+A 'ii immons College was founded to enable young women to gain an independent livelihood just fifty years ago and in the ensuing time the College has endeavored g g to fulfill that wish of John Simmons. Various schools have been added Q: :ll and developed as times have changed and needs became apparent, and so today the girl entering Simmons has before her a wide range from which to choose her career. The training that Simmons offers is unique in that it gives a college student a liberal arts background and a training in a professional field as well. Many of the graduates each year go on to do graduate study and many others start out to work immediately. But they always have the interest of Simmons and their particular school at heart and year after year offer suggestions towards improvement, expansion, and new possibilities. Part of the training in the professional fields comes when each senior goes out on practice work for two weeks of her senior year and becomes acquainted with conditions and possibilities in her field of interest and work. Each year girls return to College with reports of just how valuable their training has been. Simmons girls are confident that when they graduate they have the best training they can get, the best faculty, and the best of advice. F NE! Timex have changed and mefbodf of teaching uf well af cooking. '4 X? 545' ,mi '5 1, '