Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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of how to go about it. A course in Botany will give me some technical knowledge. ‘Plant Culture’ sounds exactly what I want.”’ And through ‘‘General Botany’’ she will learn the composition of all things that grow beneath the sun, and will learn to recog- them easily through characteristic nize traits. Art is taught by—but then it’s always been a question whether art cam be taught or not. Maybe it would be better to say that examples in the history of art are shown and elucidated by Dr. Seaver, Dr. Neilson, and Dr. van Ingen, and that students in Practical Art are guided and encouraged by Miss Randall. In studying the History of Art we learn a greater appreciation of the beauties around us, and we get a firm basis on which we can after- wards evaluate art for ourselves. The Art Department does not say—'‘This is good, because it is by Giotto; this is bad, because History it is merely by a follower’’—but it shows you both, and shows you why the Giotto has more strength. One period is not set above another, or one artist—you learn to form your own opinions, and realize that art is not a thing of the past, but ever present. And there is E.C.A.—Elements of Com position in the Arts—open to a limited group of freshmen, in which art, literature, music, and the dance are studied together and points in comparison brought out. —Here the conductor tapped the girl on the shoulder. “Last stop,’ he said; wee about to turn around and go back again.”’ She had become so absorbed she had com- pletely forgotten to get off at her station. So she paid the extra fare and went back that far; and as she walked home, in a slight daze still, she thought only of Wheaton; and talked only of Wheaton for the next ten years or so. Physical Education Cee

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not only to those who wish to write pro- fessionally. There isn’t a literate soul in the world who doesn’t need a knowledge of it, if only to write interesting letters. The litera- ture is something that you enjoy reading, some of it you have probably read before, but in rereading, and studying it under compe- tent teachers, you find a wealth of unrealized material. There is more than pure enjoyment here. Through your earlier study of compo- sition you learn to appreciate more fully the way the writer must carefully construct his poem, play, or novel, and you feel a greater respect for him. No matter what the major, every student will find an English course pertinent to it, that will help to amplify and clarify her knowledge. Dr. Jennings and Dr. Hidy teach Economics while Dr. Cressey and Dr. Nottingham teach the related course of Sociology. Ec is impor- tant to History majors, being a vital part of History, but it is also important to everyone —the stock market has played an influential role in all our lives, and it’s a good idea to understand it. The purpose of Sociology “‘is to help the student understand modern so- ciety.’’ It does this by studying life in other countries, primitive and advanced, as well as by making a survey of your own home town. “Criminology and Penology’’ is a good course to take along with Psychology, and “Social Change’’ is an integral part of His- tory. Perhaps nobody can “‘understand mod- ern society,’’ but these courses at least help, and give you a start. Chemistry, taught by Dr. Evans, Dr. Mar- shall, and Dr. Thompson, is an interesting course for itself, leading to a knowledge of things that you would otherwise never real- ize. You will be able to simplify and reduce the world around you to its primary and Music Philosophy essential elements—and hence perhaps under- stand it, in a different, but no less interesting way from the Sociologist. And it is an es- sential for the pre-medical student, along with Zoology and Physics. “Botany!’’ said our pre-Wheatonite. Dr. Rice, Dr. Faull, Miss Leuchs and Miss Taylor head this department. ‘‘I have always wanted a garden,”’ she thought; ‘‘but one can’t have a garden when one lives in an apartment. And so I have planned my garden for my own house of the misty future—without any idea [ 21 ]

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CRG AAS N Ass meeting in lower chapel a few days after our return in September intro- duced the College Government Association to us. Priscilla Howard, the president, appeared impressive in cap and gown and we stood in awed silence until she and Dean Carpenter were seated. Their speeches discussed the system of set penalties we have had. We were filled with enthusiasm when the possibility of experimenting by abolishing these penal- ties was set before us. Mass meetings give us a wonderful feeling that we really take part in our student government. This year the College Government Asso- ciation has gone further than ever before in removing itself from the position of police force. For example, we were all given neatly printed blue charts so we could keep track of our own chapel and class cuts. C.G.A. Judicial Board has taken on the added work of judging each case individually, and trying to do without campusing as a penalty. It really is much better this way. Last year there were, up until spring vacation, forty-seven cases of campusing, and this year there has been only one (for details read your local paper, or the Dahl cartoon). This year’s officers, headed by Priscilla Howard, president; are Mary Igleheart, vice- president; Eleanore Beane, secretary; and Alice Canby, treasurer. They and the eight House Chairmen make up Cabinet, and then there’s Council, con- sisting of C.G.A. executives and heads of organizations. Cabinet has met more often this year be- cause of the excellent policy of discussing with a girl such offences as carelessness, lack of cooperation in attitude, and infringement of rules instead of letting the problem drift until a particular offence has been committed, and automatically imposing a set penalty. So far this year the Board (Dean, Cabinet, and House Fellows) has made no changes in PRISCILLA HOWARD, President rules, and changes in policy put into practice by Cabinet and Council have worked very well. Aside from the usual smooth running of C.G.A. bus, signing out, church check and other systems, we have this Association to thank for contributing to furnishings for the Press Board and Nike rooms in S.A.B. Also C.G.A. has voted to pay Information Office to call local theaters each week so we won't travel all the way to Taunton to find that the Charles Boyer picture just left and theres'the- Mive Little Peppets in its’ place. There are spiffy new ash trays and lamp- shades for the social rooms, and it was C.G.A. that appointed the committee to work out a seating chart for the trial formal seating plan proposed by News. Wertevoroud vols the way that C.GuAluis continually awake to our changing needs, be it for reliable movie information, or simpli- fication of rules which were college tradition before Hebe started sporting an electric light bulb instead of a dish of rain water. en