Wellesley College - Legenda Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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,Q A MEMBER OF THE IN-GROUP AN IDEAL PATTERN MISS FAYE WILSON HISTORY UCI L FACTS RGARET Political Science, Economics, History, Sociology dealt with modern problems Looking around us in time, we discovered that civilization has taken many shapes. Studying history, we enlarged our experience, as we saw the world pass through countless political and intellectual revolutions, and what we learned gave us perspective on the current situation. lVe gained a sense of the marvelous feat of transmitting learning and tradition from the time of Herodotus to that of Toynbee .... In sociology, we asked our- selves about the forms of man's society. N'Ve studied family and national structures, argued about differing customs, social changes, and sought to understand the relation and com- munication of one group with another .... YVe investigated the ancient opinion that man is by nature a political animal, musing over political parties, constitutions, and interna- tional law. The national election in l952 stimulated our political consciousness, and we diligently tried to Hnd out what constituted a great political leader .... ln economics, we learned to balance our unbalanced budget sheets, worried about insurance and taxation forms and statistical methodsg we mused over budgets, thinking ol' our own, and when the tuition was raised, paid close attention to the figures showing the rising cost ol' living .... Thus, we studied the individual in relation to other individuals, and perhaps gained a greater sense of responsibility toward the world in which we live. POLITICAL SCIENCE MR. LELAND JENKS SOCIOLOGY MRS. HUGH KILLOLGII ECONOMICS

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NON NIINSTRARI SED MINISTRARE MR. FERDINANID IDENBEAUX MISS MARY COOLIDGE NIR. ROBERT TENIPLETON BIBLICAL IIISTORY PHILOSOPHY EDLCATIUN DE OF LIVING Bible, Education and Philosophy showed a potential life Biblical scholarship was a new approach to a familiar subject, and teachers tolerated our ignorance with the patience of Job. After studying the paralleled Gospels and the unknown author of the fourth, a miracle took on new meaning. In advanced courses we considered everything from neo-orthodoxy to sitting under the Bodhi-tree hoping to experience Nirvana. Education attempted to get behind our hall'-sophisticated ideas to their basic meaning. Practice teaching at Page helped to formulate philosophies, but the real value of the courses was in self-educ'ation. Philosophy brought profound questioning of Values, ethic and aesthetic, revived the perennial students' controversy be- tween lree will and deternlinisnl. Plato in his cave, Hegel's clialectic and Kantian reason were presented lor inspection as we contemplated the train ol lVestern thought. THE MANY JOBS OF THE BIBLE STAFF FROM ONE PACE TO ANOTHER IN EDllCA'l'ION

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Mm '3 'lT E'5'l '1' The labs and lecture rooms of P ll d S b , h CHI CLOII 'Ill age 6081118 I 8 GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY I N W-Q MISS HELEN G. RUSSELL MATIIEWlA'I'ICS MISS li l 'Tll ELLIOTT IIIGIENE AND PHYSICAL EDIWCATION Posture pictures were the introduc- tion to the methods ol' the hygiene department: pins and tapes sticking out from us like porcupines. For two years we body-built in gym classes, doing long laps in the pool at 4:40 on lfridayg swinging hockey sticks, blue suits against the green field. XVe dodged archers while walking to the Central Street courts to work on our backhand, the impossible stroke. Crew was one ol' the more popular sports, and we learned not to catch crabs, or .lump the 'lcatchf' Crew, good for the waistline, as well as productive ol' tired arms and legs, faces red from the wind blowing across beautiful Lake NVaban. In modern dance we discov- ered how to express ourselves as lumps ol' clay or flowers, instead of as young women. lVe rode at Dana Hall, all too seldom, and walked around the goll' course on hot Mondays, all too often. XVC were square dancing in the gym and tripping over ourselves in the squash court, looking for that little rebounding ball. Basketball intro- duced the concept of zone-guarding to conluse what we had brought from high school, and canoeing was not quite as we remembered it lirom camp. lVe suffered the chlorine itch from swimming, and nursed sore heads from being hit with unwieldy lacrosse racquets. And then we recovered dur- ing that portion of the winter term bencvolently devoted to learning to relax. lt was all too easy, alter the varied and exacting rigors of the hy- giene department. A FIELD FOR TIIE FUTURE A FIELD DAY IN CLASS MISS IIELEN JONES CHEMISTRY ..,,,,,,,.f M ISS ELIZABETH JONES ZOOLOCY