Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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MIRIAM FERONIA CARPENTER, A.B., Pee itt. D , Dean ELMA DOROTHY LITTLEFIELD, A.M., Dean of Freshmen Bare ee bab LE YOUNG, A:B:, L.H.D,, Registrar; Secretary of the Faculty Rasy

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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

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The Administrators . . . Joun Epvcar Park, A.B., D.D., LL.D., Prestdent...Mir1am FerRonta Carpenter, A.B., L.AiDs Lite. Dean ee Satah BellesYoung, ABs baheDs Registrar, Secretary of the Faculty... BARBARA ZIEGLER, A.M., Secretary of the Board of Admission. ..EtMA DoroTHy Lirriertetp, A.M., Dean of Freshmen...JosepH Henry Soxrpay, Treasurer... MAp,en ExizasetH DunkKLug, Bursar... The Trustees... J. Evcar Park, A.B., D.D., LL.D., Prestdent of the Board Herpert M. Puimpton, Vice-President . Sytv1A Meapows, A.B., Secretary JosepH H. Souipay, Treasurer Freperick H. Pacr, A.M.,D.Dy . Henry H. Crapo, A.B. Frances Vos— EMERSON Rosert SeNscA Smit, B.D., Ph.D. CHANNING H. Cox, A.B., LL.D. Mary BE Wootiry, AiMs litt. De HD ios Joun KirkLaNnp Crark, A.B., LL.B. Harriet E. Hucuess, A.B. WiLu1aM F. Cuasez, A.B. HeLeEN WikAND Cots, Ph.D. James F. Jackson, A.B., LL.B., Trustee Emeritus [ 16 ] Norton Norwoo d Waban Dedham Waltham New Bedford Boston New Haven, Conn. Boston South Hadley New York City New York City West Newton Winter Park, Fla. Winchester