Donnybrook Fair 1942 - Goucher College

DEPARTMENTAL
liE ADS
UPPER LEFT: Miss
Rutherford, Psychologv;
Dr. Langdon, Biologv;
Dr. King, Physiology.
UPPER RIGHT: Dr. Barton,
Phvsics; Dr. Lloyd,
Chemistry; Dr. Lewis,
Mathematics.
LOWER LEFT: Dr. ' Vin slow,
Political Science;
Dr. Pancoast, Economics
and Sociology.
LOWE R RIGHT: Dr. Lonn,
Historv; Dr. Crane,
Education.
Our social contacts with the faculty have meant much to us this
year. At the Campus Party we watched Dr. Ashton in his wild plaid shirt
and reel hat sock a homer. At department teas we saw austere pedagogues
transformed into real persons who were learning to drink tea without
sugar. Looking at the Hessian soldier fire-irons of Dr. Beatty and his new
wife, stroking Tom Thumb, the great black Persian cat belonging to Dr.
Bussey, talking to Dr. and Mrs. Curtis at \iVinter Cotillion, '"'alking to
chapel with the Dean, examining Dr. Nitchie's Blake drawing and Dr.
Hopkins' first editions were high points in our year. To find our faculty
living normally in this war-tossed world has been a constant challenge to
us. To chat with them of flowers and books, to laugh together at Thurber,
to gain new stability from their composed behavior and to be inspired by
their devotion to truth are opportunities we appreciate.
Our own puzzling problem of duty-whether we should continue
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