Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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RALPH PHILIP BOAS, A.M. Professor of English Boas are Miss Shepard, Mrs. Boas, Mrs. Ballou, Miss Burton, Mrs. Mackenzie, Mr. de Mille, Dr. Sharp, Miss Howard, Miss Tweedle, and Miss Winslow. GERMAN Sprechen Sie Deutsch? What do you know of Germany beside the name Hitler and Grimm’s fairy tales? The traditions of Germanic culture make up a civilizational study of great interest, and it is this back- ground for language which Dr. Korsch, Dr. Kramer and Mr. Lilge consider most important. To this end, there is a German exchange student, a German Club, a Ger- man table in the dining room, and a clip- ping file for articles on Germany. Language is, after all, only the open sesame to na- tionality and not an end in itself. HISTORY A long, long time ago there was an his- torian. He kept getting posterity and his ancestors mixed up, and so he wrote the first history book. But he omitted the present, and so more and more history books had to be written. Today we keep up to date with the daily paper—treally an historical document. The History De- partment sweeps all the ages together into a chronological picture, but it also empha- sizes the present and the political science of the present. Dr. Hubbard is a member of the Special PRISCILLA MANTON KRAMER, Ph.D. Instructor in German CLIFFORD CHESLEY HUBBARD, Ph.D. Professor of History and Political Science Commission on Educational Matters for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and an authority on the history of Rhode Is- land. Last summer he studied the Wagner Housing Bill. Dr. Gulley is an authority on Joseph Chamberlain and has written a book, English Social Politics, about him. Dr. Knapton and Dr. Hidy are both work- ing on books at present, and Dr. Hidy is conducting adult classes on Current Events in Attleboro. The historian’s work is never done. If there is a destiny that shapes our ends, it is no doubt the scratch of his pen recording the events of tomorrow. LATIN AND GREEK The classical department of Wheaton includes Greek and Latin, with courses in language, literature, and archeology. One may translate Horace, read Plato, inter- pret Sappho, or learn the meaning in a fragment of Minoan pottery, under the guidance of Dr. Work, Dr. Lynn, and Dr. Elizabeth Evans. In the classical study of the library you will find shelves of ‘‘red and green’’ books, and odd, delightful bits of wisdom and erudition. Another corner of campus devoted to the classics is Mary Lyon 9, which has its own small museum,—a no- table coin collection and other interesting pieces. Wheaton students themselves earned the coin collection in return for work done fee

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CHEMISTRY In the chemistry classes at Wheaton knowledge of both theoretical and practi- cal value is gained. Advanced students realize that there is close correlation in all of the classes. All work knits itself, year by year, into an intricate pattern, complete at the end of a major in chemistry. The courses given senior year obliterate the artificial bound- aries necessarily created by year courses. Enough laboratory work is given so that students learn to work alone, to think for themselves, figuring out their own diffi- culties when a snag is met. On the lighter side of laboratory are the Thursday afternoon chemistry teas. For tired students working in the lab, that afternoon tea is served in beakers and stirred with glass rods. True to their studies, citric acid is used by the girls instead of the usual lemon. Head of the department is Dr. Mildred Evans. Her assistants are Dr. Maud Marsh- all and Dr. Dorothy Thompson. ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY Precision and efficiency are the backbone of economics and sociology. ‘‘Organiza- tion’’ is Dr. Cressey’s byword—it’s a good word, an open sesame to the complex world of community, association, institution. The New York Times is the standby of ‘‘ec’’ students—Wall Street is more than a thor- oughfare to them. The faculty are as diverse in background and interest as Samoa and Middletown. Mrs. Hidy spent her girlhood in South Africa; Miss Nottingham in Yorkshire; Dr. Jennings and Dr. Cressey were brought up in America. Dr. Jennings’ main interest just now is the personal loan department. Dr. Cressey’s field is Race Relations; Miss Nottingham is studying the history of Methodism, and Mrs. Hidy is working on a history of George Peabody, banker. Economics and Sociology cover a hetero- geneous territory! HENRIETTA COOPER JENNINGS, Ph.D. Professor of Economics and Sociolog y ENGLISH A Jekyll-Hyde problem, or at least the problem of a double purpose, confronts the English department: to present a scholarly knowledge of English literature to the students majoring in the field and to im- part a general understanding of the subject to students whose primary interest lies elsewhere. Hence, the survey course in English literature from Beowulf to the present is duplicated in detail for the majors in the Junior and Senior tutorial courses. Perhaps, though, the department is more of a Cerberus than Jekyll-Hyde. Not only literature has its attention, but drama and composition. Through its speech work and courses in technique of the drama and dramatic theory and prac- tice the department has gained a large following. Of great interest are the pro- jects worked out in the latter course, the model sets and theatres and the Little Theatre plays. Freshmen are given an introduction to the writing of English through the ele- mentary composition course, and for those wishing to continue with creative work, advanced composition, journalism, versi- fication and similar courses are offered. In its wide range of work covered, the English department necessarily includes a large staff, both general and specialized. Under the professorship of Mr. Ralph P. [ 18 ]

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on files of the American Numismatic So- ciety in New York. The Metropolitan Museum has contributed several geometric pots, while vases and bronzes have been acquired through the Boston Museum. After terms spent in study of the classics, many girls find, like Tennyson’s “‘Ulys- ” Ses “ Yet all experience is an arc wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move.’’ Perhaps this explains the eagerness of several Wheaton students to sail across the Mediterranean and discover for themselves the glories of that ancient civilization. MATHEMATICS For most of us there is a certain fascina- tion for terms about which we know noth- ing. Take a term like triple integration, for example; or partial differentiation and the radius of gyration; or catenaries, lemniscates, and witches. For the student who is unacquainted with the higher lore of the Mathematics Department, these words sound like impressionism, or a language from Mars. But if the same stu- dent will lend his mind to the study of x and y and the relation of the universe, the words will become significant with mean- ing. In recent years the number of mathe- matics majors under Miss Watt and Dr. Garabedian has visibly increased. The EUNICE WORK, Ph.D. Professor of Latin and Greek MARTHA WILBUR WATT, A.M. Associate Professor of Mathematics [ 20 ] training in rigor alone gives the student an excellent background for the world after college. In time she may come to realize that from the ‘‘triple integrations’’ and similar terms, at first meaningless, the physicist-mathematicians, epitomized in Einstein, have come to the clearest picture of the universe man has ever known. MUSIC ‘If music be the food of love,’’ Shakes- speare tells us, ‘play on.’’ And yet music is also food for thought and appreciation. Whether it’s Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata’’ or the C sharp minor Prelude of Rachmaninoff, the Department of Music fosters a more attuned pleasure in theart of music. Directed by Mr. Ramseyer, Dr. Garabedian, Miss Wood, Miss Brohaugh, Miss MacLeod, and Miss Totten, its three- fold aim is to provide a foundation enab- ling one to continue with composition in later years, to furnish a background for the intelligent criticism of music, and to aid music-lovers in their understanding and interpretation of the works of others. When Mr. Ramseyer its asked to give his opinion of popular music, he ac- knowledges that ‘‘swing’’ songs are ‘‘tre- mendously valuable,’’ that ‘‘a trace of jazz may be found in the productions of many composers.’’ And yet perchance we feel that the strains of Brahms’ ‘First,’ or the ‘Moonlight Sonata”’ are the dearest FRANK WELLS RAMSEYER, Jr., A.M. Assistant Professor of Music