Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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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

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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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food for the thought of our permanent musical mind. PHILOSOPHY Too many people visualize a philosopher as a Chinese sage sitting on a mountain- top with his head in the clouds. Imagine, if you can, Dr. Mac, Mrs. Clark, and Dr. Sprague with their heads in the clouds! The picture is too nebulous; philosophy’s vigorous thought cannot exist long in a tare atmosphere. It is too close to life. Dr. Mac says that it is ‘‘philosophy’s job to get some sort of unified picture out of the sciences—physical and social.’’ All scientists, sociologists, historians and psy- chologists are at one time or another, philosophers. In fact, all human beings are philosophers. Philosophy was the beginning of all knowledge, you know. The early Greeks made no differentiation between it and the physical sciences. Today specialization seems to have placed many subjects in watertight compartments, but philosophy still pervades all knowledge with the eternal question, Why? Can you answer it? PHYSICAL EDUCATION “At Wheaton modern dancing has pro- gressed by leaps and bounds,’’ Miss Mir- iam Faries said with a great deal of truth. With Miss Faries teaching the freshmen the fundamentals of the dance and Mrs. Gallagher struggling with the sophomores, the Dance Group becomes more popular yearly. Miss Faries believes that along with swimming and posture, modern dancing gives Wheaton students what seems to be most desired by girls of today, “good figure, carriage, and accomplish- ment in some activity.”’ In view of this last, the gym department schedules hock- ey, basketball, and lacrosse as principal team games while Miss Boehm teaches tennis as the individual sport having the greatest value after college. This is the basis for the schedule selected by the aver- age college girl, but special programs are made to fit individual needs. The physical education department feels that “‘the education of mind and body properly co-ordinated make the well bal- anced and competent individual, who is able to live the fullest, most complete life.’’ The A.A. should not be forgotten in its function of furnishing student heads for sports. Their enthusiasm and ungrudg- ing gifts of time and interest are always invaluable aids to the gym department. PHYSICS Why do apples fall? What makes elec- tricity? Why do the stars twinkle? What causes sound? For understandable explana- tions ask Dr. Shook. At the same time ask him to explain mobile color, the relation- ship of physics and music, and the lighting WALTER OSCAR McINTIRE, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy GLENN ALFRED SHOOK, Ph.D. Professor of Physics and Director of the Observatory MIRIAM FARIES, A.M. Assistant Professor of Physical Education [21]