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

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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.

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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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extra-curricular activity and a professor urges him on. A common problem of daily life ha- taken a student deeper than hi, present mental resources can allow him .„ follow; some faculty adv 1S er helps him to lighten his burden. Where the Neo-Classic godfathers of imprisoned students were regimentative in their guid- ances, it can hardly be said of a Wake Forest faculty member that he is discouraging to thought. First of all the student must think, and then the professor ' s task has begun; to conduct and advise the thought of a .nan whose influence may some day be far-reaching in one of two different Found, Stansbi Day: Dr. and Mrs. and Dr. Carpentei inn. .rstones to chicken. Encore I College: Profe-sc Memon imparts enthusiasm i student pep meeting gathering directions — the constructive or the destructive. Day in and day out. year after year, generation after generation, a group of lead- ers whose names have come to be referred to collectively a- a ' faculty have know- ingly smiled at the ambitious Monogram clubra Folk «in? by an f freshman, and knowingly frowned at proverbial wrong footed beginners. Each year brings in a sea of new faces, and every decade ushers in revolu- tions in styles, but the professor sees the same relative mixtures of clay and life behind the thin veils of earthly attributes. There are the lean years and there are the years of plenty, but the record books manu- facturers find steady demands from college faculties. And we have learned to watch them as closely as