Vassar College - Vassarion Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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Pradudion Ponibilffy rar. Dillllllifllillg Rehlrm' ernment finance. We computed statistics and analyzed curves and found ourselves being Nlar- shallian and Keynesian in turn. The classes in out- side society were our concern in sociologyg we theorized about structures, processes and change and turned practical attention to social welfare in the community. Our concept of culture became dynamic with anthropology and our outlook Now fullrn I rea: widened as we found that among Aborigines and Americans language, myth and values are not always so very different. The Field Work Oflice provided us with oppor- tunities for observation and experience beyond the academic outlines. Through volunteer jobs, surveys and field trips we grew into Tennessee Valley authorities or Hudson Valley apprentices. lill!fCIJP'I1llF1ll mpitalistir enlrrprrneur . . . 21

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Ifi1'.f Campbellfr if: got to be good. The social sciences gave us an ever-growing frame of reference for the understanding of man in his world. In history we grasped the sources of lvest- ern civilization's evolution as we coursed through Charlemagne's reign. the French Revolution, the Munich Pact-and innumerable note topic pads. We mapped out the facts of man's physical en- vironment in geography and learned the influ- ences of rainfall and resources upon our lives. The ways of government and the order of laws im- pressed themselves upon us in political science. We applied our developing American political philosophies to puhlic administration and inter- national relations. Economics utilized our propensity to learn the basic essentials of corporations, unions and gov- From Pillow To P011 20

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llkrliqf In child study we followed patterns ofgrowth and development from the neonate through the adolescent. Wle projected our techniques into reality at the Nursery School and found educa- tion's limits tested anew. Psychology taught us the whys and hows of personality and perception as we applied l3inet's tests. experimented with Lewin's group dynamics and struggled to luring Freud's depths to consciousness. l Cagilo. rrga mm gave us the courage to subject our xninds to philosophy's problems. Through Aristotle and john Dewey we explored the mera- physieal World, and we concluded that we werenlt quite logically positive about actuality or the ethical ought. Religion revealed man's search for absolute value :md the transformation of his faiths from philosophy into practice. 22 Chrrbannizr if Drlfrminfd