Vassar College - Vassarion Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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Rhymr and Rmmu The arts framed n1an's created world and brought into focus our own imaginations. English exposed us to Spenser and Shakespeare, ro Proust and Pound, to Hawthorne and Hemingway. VVB com- municated critically and creatively, attempting always to make novel images function. Languages lifted houndaries and gave us new insight into other people and other times. We linally mastered French conjugation and Spanish idioms. then excitedly niet Cervantes and Racine on their own terms. The divine world of Dante opened to us with ltaliang German gave us the genius of Goethe. The power of Tolstoy and Cousin' Through lflz' Rhine

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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

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Uh f1c'UflliIfl-C., Dostoevsky in Russian or in translation left ns awed. With our heritage of ancient mythology and the Classical languages we gained new under- standing nf the wisdom of Homer's Greece, the glory of Ovidls Rome. Drama demanded time and talent. but the ela- tion that accompanied the birth of each tragedy repaid our heroic efforts. And the magic of Euripides and lbsen indelibly set the theatre's outline upon us. Our aesthetic experience arched to new heights in art. zlnd ilu' glory thai rvzu' Grfaxe . .