Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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Wheaton’s Better Half thought. “‘I’ve gone to church every Sunday, or almost every Sunday, with Mother and Dad, and I’ve usually been so mad at being gotten up early that I don’t listen to what the minister says, and just look at the stained glass windows. I don’t know what I really believe. It would be wonderful if some of these courses would straighten me out.”’ (P.S. They did.) Next came Psychology, with the students’ wandering minds being led by Dr. Amen, Dr. Hunt-eDe, Rickers;) Dr. iGoldmeier, Miss Chandler, Dr. MacColl, and Miss Jacoby. She read avidly—Psych’s a subject that seems to take everybody’s interests nowadays. Whatever field you go into, it will be useful. If you plan to be a teacher there is the related field of Education, or if you plan to marry and have fourteen children there is Child Psych. ‘“Mm-m, yes, I’ll have to take some of that.”’ And she passed on to Physics taught by Dr. Shook and Dr. Garabedian. She thought, “It’s required that I take a science before I can graduate, and I think Astronomy would be awfully interesting. I've always wanted to know more about the stars, and the why of them. And this course on the “Physical Basis of Musical Sound’, looks like a wonder- ful thing to take in conjunction with one of the music courses.’’ But she must be on— Philosophy next. Dr. McIntire, Dr. Sprague, and Mrs. Clark head this department. This would help her to think for herself by showing how men had thought through the ages. She read more closely, and found that she had been on the right track— “The major mayepe elected from the departments of Philosophy and Religion.” Back farther she same to Music, with Mr. Ramseyer, Dr. Garabedian, Miss Wood, Miss Krause, Miss MacLeod, and Miss Totten heading the section. Last night her father had taken her to the symphony in town, and although she had enjoyed it, she had gotten restless and wished that she had understood more about it; what the composer wanted to convey, and what technical difficulties he had to overcome before he achieved that. Maybe Mr. Ramseyer, etc., would help her tO. sce. Next came Mathematics, with Miss Watt [ 18 ]

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FACULTY AND DEPARTMENTS OF INSTRUCTION ©) upon a time there was a prospective freshman who did not devour the Bulletin of Wheaton College as soon as the mailman brought it to her, but just jammed it into her pocketbook and rushed off to town to make a tour of the various college shops. It so happened that she just made the local train coming home, and hadn’t even had time to buy a magazine to look at during the ride. So out of sheer boredom she took the Bulletin from her pocketbook, and started to look at it. Now she was a very peculiar young girl, who always looked at things Chinese fashion, from the back frontwards. She skipped through some pages as yet mean- ingless to her, and finally came to a section which began with Zoology. Here she suc- cumbed, and read as avidly as any other sub- freshman, and she kept on going. And this ts what she read and thought: “Zoology—I must take some of that—I remember dissecting a worm years ago with Jim, and it was wonderfully interesting. Dr. Lange, Dr. Chidsey and Miss Voter teach it. That’s what I'll major in if I decide I would English really like to be a nurse.’’ It wasn’t until her sophomore year that this desire completely left her; she was taking Comparative Anat- omy, and the smell of the cow’s head she had to cut up discouraged her from ever fol- lowing in the footsteps of Florence Nightin- gale. She turned back a few pages, and came upon Spanish, taught by Dr. Riddell, Mrs. Travis, and Miss Pond. ‘‘I’d like to take some of that,’’ she thought. Languages had always fascinated her, especially French. And this was another of the Romance Lang- uages, with the same lovely sounds that she would like so well to be able to imitate. She interrupted the regular train of events and turned to French, taught by Dr. Riddell, Miss Metivier, Miss Littlefield, Miss Buchler, Miss Hendrickson and Miss Evans. And what about Italian—she turned the pages again— Dr. Riddell and Miss Hendrickson taught that. She then returned to peace and order,—to Religion, taught by Dr. Sprague. “‘That would be a wonderful thing to take,’’ she Registration

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and Dr. Garabedian. She had always liked Math in school; it was something definite, each problem an individual challenge that she felt real joy in meeting. Geometry es- pecially had appealed to her—she liked the clean feeling of drawing ruler-straight lines, the unachievable perfection of the circle. Something exact in this world, that could be proved. Unconsciously quoting to herself “Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare,”’ she turned back the page. Latin now, with Dr. Work and Dr. Evans. The root of all languages, the basis, some- thing definite again. The thrill of recognizing an early root when you came across a new word in your reading, and being able to take Reflections on Peacock Pond it apart and figure out its true meaning for yourself without having to have recourse to a dictionary. And then there were the courses open without any language prerequisite ‘“The Literary = Influence: of + thewLatin» Classits sounded especially interesting to her. Backwards, still backwards, to History and Political Science, taught by Dr. Hubbard, Dr. Gulley, Dr. Knapton, Dr. Hidy, and Miss Tirrell. From the story of man from the time of the Greeks through the French Revolution and up to the present day we learn to look at what is happening in the world with a more intelligent viewpoint, get a better perspective on it—sort of a God’s-eye view. And aside from any modern comparisons, it gives an [19 ]