Washington College - Pegasus Yearbook (Chestertown, MD)

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Pegasus 1973 Washington College Chestertown, Maryland

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Dr. Nicholas Newlin has retired as Professor of English and Chairman of the En- glish Department. It will seem odd that Professor Newlin will not be among the facul- ty as this edition of the Pegasus is distributed on campus. His absence will be felt by those that came to admire his gentle urbanity, his wit, and his learning. Others just entering the college will never know whom they missed. He had a way with literature and education that was winning in its charm. On the occasion of his retirement, he was asked to give the graduation speech. In it he gave us some notable insights: ... it is precisely the gratuitous quality of civilization, the very fact that it is not necessary to man ' s existence, that makes it in fact so wonderful a thing. Civilization is not God ' s thing, it is our thing. We made it . . not merely in search for social order, but in pursuit of the beau- tiful, of which order is only a part. If civilization needs order it is because art needs form. Music is not noise, poetry is not mere words, baseball is not just movement, and modern abstract painting is a great deal more than blobs of color slapped on a canvas. All art is the play of person- al choice and expression within a form and against a pattern, and the fun and the beauty of it come from the way the freedom and the order work with and against each other. In dedicating this yearbook to Dr. Newlin he has spoken of himself more than we have. This is the way it should be. Few of those that knew him would want to speak for him at great length and harm the chance of hearing him speak for himself. Mens cuiusque is est quisque. — Cicero —