Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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-HE FACULTY OF WAKE FOREST COLLEGE represents a combined total of over L.100 years of teaching experience. Thai is, if the years of teaching service of everj facult) member were added together, a period extending in time hack to the empire of Emperor Charlemagne would be represented. This would be the equivalent of one year of service from - • one member of thefacultj for each man included in the presenl student body. Generally, we think of faculty members as being transfusion bases of stud) and concentration upon a science, literature, philosophy, education, music — or some form ol Learning which has been made available to the student. Yet in a more meditative mood, we must think of them in other ways. Here is a group which personifies the tradition of a college, and tradi- tion is what our institution is thought of as having been for over 106 years now, as well as representing a strong element of what we are to be in the future. Theirs is the task of taking the uncut stone and applying a polish where there is a receptive surfa less, in [he back ile Jetl and Dowdy prepare for Dr. Hubert and Dr. Ted Johnson of State Colle confidential at an O.D.K. banquet. Doctors Speas, Vann and Professor Seiberl forget I Anatomy, and French, respectively, and I -I s. Dairy stock. Il is iii lliis connection that we might compare them to the industrialist: the) lake the raw material, run il through the preliminary courses of treatment to rid it of impurities and render it usable, or, unfit. nd then, lour years later, the in- dustrialist-professor gets a final glimpse of his own handiwork. . . . bile c could poinl In die many un- usual phases of their positions, we must not disassociate ourselves with their tasks. They are men whose lives have come to he filled with our problems, primarily, and their victories come largely through our successes. They live the same life — with the same problems — of each college generation entering the institution. Th, I breathe the same academic air which gives vent lo strength and color for the embryonic led. In short, 1 th liens is not a fc task designed to obstruct the freedom o

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Mr. E. B. Earnshaw, Bursar Mr. Grady Patterson, Reeistr has won a huge spot oi admiration in the hearts oi all who know him. There ' s another man on the campus who has a job second to none in the way of compli- cated tasks. Grady S. Patterson, Registrar, is the man who stands between what is generally referred to as the College and the Student. One thought of the schedules he arranges, the reports he records, checking of credits, varied and sundry oilier tasks, not to mention answering every possible question at least a thousand time- during the course ol a single year. leaves us wondering that such a man as Mr. Patterson ever lived past his first year in his position. Yet lie lias handled liis position with accuracy, courtesy, and incredible ef- ficiency. These six me :cupy the key positions ol the college. Their duties arc mans and varied. There arc tasks to perform, tasks thai range all the wav from the minute technicalities of [he registrar to the hairdine accuracy of the bursar on to the confusing generalities and specialities ol the president. These men are like the large cogs ol some machine; each is indispensable to the institu- tion he serves; and together they 1 unction with amazing smoothness. The professors are the smaller parts of the machine. They. loo. play their part, although their tasks seem less im- portant in comparison with those ol. for in- stance, the president. Each key man hears a tremendous burden upon his hack. Each ol the three deans has an entire school to supervise, and llii- i merel) a part of his work. ud the other three men are no less important. Perhaps, one of the most obvious attributes ol these men is their uncanny ability ol understanding human character. Hut such an attribute was acquired only alter many years ol intimate association u itli students, and was just another ol the many Capabilities amassed h -ucli men. in

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r growing soul, nor the blocks to encircle the intellectual tendencies of a future scholar of the classics, some science, or music. Instead they serve the purpose of an auditor, who checks against the student ' s chances of cheating himself. Some one of them watches day by day the intellectual lights burn in the hearts and 1 i --- of over a thousand students. Classroom activi- ties do not harbor over a relatively small fraction of their services, for where -w t! 1 ii i i • M ' . 4 w ; n 1 V j L --}« ert, A for Edwards there is collegiate revelry and top-heavy pandemonium over athletic victories, you will find them there, too. No more ardent supporters of a school spirit will be found anywhere, for they have transmuted the very life of the intangible term school spirit from one college generation to another. The music of concert fills the air. and a college faculty admires the talents of the student; somewhere a Wake Forest student exhibits superior adeptness in a form of Third slage ..I E TV.-.,, ( II and Dyna- mic Holton consider sports undei favorable conditions, li «.,- the Monogram Reception; :igars followed the ice i ream.