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

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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

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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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the} watch us. The forma- tive influences ol our more youthful college e a r - (•nine I rom the .-inn total ol i in impressions ol them, or I Him men w hose character- istics have been shaped li their hands. They laugh with us. and at us. We laugh with them and at them. The lliing- that are funny to ns arc sometimes funny to them. And some of the things that are serious In us are funny (or pathetic) to them. There £ ft« the formal o t lies the line ( demarcation: l ' a-i-lial and Professor Ciiflni him to The founder I the Lav Scl I. I c N. Y. Gulley, [eaves the church after wit- nessing the inauguration of anothei year ' s work. they have a license in tell us we are wrong, and we turn the wrong to right or cease to he members of their usually-large families. It is indeed hard to comprehend. For in- stance, the same lone calls our name at the opening ol the first class period as a fresh- man as the voice that calls out our name across the quiet ol a commencement plat- form. Next year there will be others to begin their parade in what has come to be a perpetual trek across an academic stage. The faculty members — and there are Dr. Cull., he returm and worki