Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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the college. some girls were in them and they have turned out to be the ones who tell us what to do. the girls have funny names. the president is a girl named marion hastie price and the vice president who helps the president to carry on is jean nevius and the secretary is jane ohmer and the treasurer is helen johnson. there is another one too and i almost forgot. it is the songleader and she is skeeter ransom. she must be a relative of mine. we are almost ready to go home for a resting period. if you can swim the river maybe i will see you in brooklyn some- time. regards to the kittens archie back here again only now it is another year 1938 dear mehitabel the first and most important thing on my mind right now is that our doctor whose picture is in the book house has come back. and i have discovered why he is so well liked. he is the president of the whole college and the day that he came back we all went very secretly to his house across the street and sang songs until he came to the door. we had never seen him before in all our lives but we had heard a lot about him and he must be wonderful because as soon as he came to the door and waved at us the rain started to roll down the sides of our cheeks. that was funny because it wasnt raining. regards to the cats archie same place only better than ever dear mehitabel the biggest crisis of the year is approach- ing when we enter the tournament for drawing rooms for next year. i expect to be killed outright so i may not be seeing you again after this. at the same time we will have the pleasure of watching the ven- erable seniors or the highest class struggle through the most trying days of their whole college career and graduate from this place. then we shall step up to a high- er class and prove that today we are a man. regards to the grand-kittens archie pale

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The Freshmen re wheaton college norton mass september 21 1937 dear mehitabel i have come here to see what the life of a typical college student really is. some- times i have wondered in my journeyings through this vast world and now perhaps i will really know. 1 came here with some- one in the lowest class. she is called a fresh- man and has certainly been doing some lively running around ever since we ar- rived. when ido not have to run so fast to observe her i will write again. regards to the kittens archie still here the next week dear mehitabel today we have been wearing horrible scratchy pieces of cardboard around our necks with much writing on them. i dont yet know what this is all about but i gather that my girl friend is mary jones from brooklyn new york. not far from home. last week we went to a barny place called the little theatre and read a page of alice in wonderland which seems to be a story for children to read to another person who seems to be a teacher. we tried to speak as well as we could because i guess the lady had trouble in understanding english. from what 1 hear she never did get to hear the whole book because everyone who read to her used the same pages over and over again. we passed our swimming test and i have discovered that water is a wettish sub- stance much the same as rain only greener and in a big square dish. regards to the kittens archie the same almost time to go home for a while dear mehitabel yesterday some girl who tried to pretend she was santa claus came out of a building and gave some packing boxes to the rest of [12 ]

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The Faculty and Administration . . . The faculty are the intermediaries be- tween the student and knowledge. To be sure, the knowledge is already there, and one is inclined to say, There it is, unearth it—‘‘He that hath ears to hear, let him hear’; but the sad truth is that even spoken knowledge is apt to remain un- heard if nothing more is done about it. There are very few of us who would be willing, as 2 Penseroso was, to “|... let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato...” College is designed primarily for those who honestly desire to learn. It has grown to serve other purposes—social as well as intellectual. We have at Wheaton the Sem and Metcalf social room for a bridge game or a smoke; the jouncy busses to near-by towns to see a quick movie. We have all these things to relieve the monotony of continuous study. But we also have an extremely well-equipped library, where a wealth of information in all fields is available. The departments of instruction offer selected students an op- portunity for further research in a field in which they are interested, by working for honors; prizes are offered to encourage scholarship, and as the goal of all academ- ic achievement, Wheaton has had a chap- ter in the national fraternity of Phi Beta Kappa since 1931. The field of scholarship which any college like Wheaton opens to the student is unbounded. Likewise the start on the road to knowledge which an interested student receives in under- graduate work becomes often an impulse which drives him on throughout life. One drink of the Pierian spring and you will always feel, however slightly, the pangs of a thirst which cannot be quenched by any water less pure, or less sparkling. The faculty introduce the student to all this. Theirs is the advantage of experience, of years of study, of points of view colored and broadened by contact with the edu- cated in many fields; and all this golden hoard of knowledge they offer gladly to whoever is interested. For a student body of less than five hundred, Wheaton provides sixty-eight faculty members, of whom thirty have re- ceived doctor’s degrees, and twenty-three the degree of master. There are seventeen departments in the liberal arts and sci- ences, offering courses from romance lan- guages and the fine arts to chemistry and play-production. Wheaton gives only a Bachelor of Arts degree to undergraduates, but offers as well an opportunity of work- ing toward the degree of Master of Arts. But more than that is the incalculable value of its guidance in the first steps of the long and difficult w ay to experience and knowledge. [147