Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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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

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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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RUTH DARNELL, President Wes Gea OME of our nicest memories of freshman fall are closely connected with the ac- tivities of this organization; the blue-badged guides, the open air picnic, and especially the Candlelight Service. The land-star flames, dark lake, evening-calm beauty, and the fun of singing hymns together amid it all is typi- cal of the good feeling that flows from our Y.W. Candlelight Service and Vespers represent one phase only. Grand speakers which the whole college community enjoys are ‘‘Y”’ invited. In October there was T’an Pin Pin of Yenching University, and in November Wang Tse-Fu discussed the place of the Chi- nese students today. Henry T. Cadbury, professor at Harvard, spoke on the work of the American Friends Service Committee. Afterwards he answered many questions informally over coffee served in Hebe Parlors. Dr. Park, Hornell Hart, professor of soci- ology at Duke and Rev. Leslie Glenn of Christ Church in Cambridge are all on the Y.W. speakers list. Everyone knows about Practical Aid. We've all saved money by purchasing our easy chairs in the second-hand store in Lar- com basement, and stopped by the Lost and Found to see if the right mitten had been col- lected from the special box in the post office. These all contribute to the fund which Y.W. yearly distributes. Practical Aid can report a goodly commission from its activities as furniture salesman and candy shop (after they went on a strictly cash basis), and even Lost and Found makes a profit from the spring auction of unclaimed goods. Y.W. charities are numerous, World Fel- lowship gave away six hundred dollars to Pine Mountain Settlement School, Bettis Academy Hudson School, Bryn Mawr Summer School, and the Far Eastern Movement. There are collections of old clothes for the Norton poor, and now for the Friends of France to distribute. There’s the scholarship for the refugee student to which candy-selling profit goes, and this year Y.W. contributed to the Herbert Hoover fund for Finnish Relief. All this, and a certain amount for an At- tleboro colored church that had long been in extremely poor pecuniary position. Then there were the usual contributions to ailing children, mostly in need of glasses, through the district nurse, and to local scout groups. Other ways Y.W. has helped the community of Norton are providing the Night School (which presents a diploma and refund to those who successfully complete the course, usually English), and the Play Club. Student Industrial (another phase of “‘Y”’ activity) arranges for a group of working girls to visit us from the New Bedford ‘‘Y”’ and we had a fine time chatting together in the social room, going in the pool, and later having a more formal discussion of problems of immigration and unemployment. The present officers of our Y.W.C.A. are Ruth Darnell, president; Jean Nevius, vice- president; Mary Rhodes, secretary; Elizabeth Gibbs, treasurer. 24a