Donnybrook Fair 1942 - Goucher College

in our studies or go to work in an airplane factory-has been sympathetically
discussed by our faculty. They have given advice freely but
have let us make our own decisions. V/ e have needed help in planning
schedules and careers, and we have been glad to find that our busiest professors
could take time to deliberate over the respective merits of Fine
Arts ll and Music 5. The cooperative democratic spirit of our faculty
has never been better exemplified than in planning Goucher's war-time
policy. Students joined with the college personnel in determining our
shortened third term and no summer session. This was not clone through
authoritative fiat, but by democratic decision of an intellectual group.
Seeing our professors take their place as members of the civic community
has been a pleasure-this year as before. Their lectures concerning
South America, backgrounds of the war, and hopes for peace have made
our city better informed and consequently better able to cope with new
situations. Their publications have added to the world's scientific and
scholarly achievements, and some (rara avis) have appealed to the man
in the street. Several publications have been nationally recognized. vVe
have been more than proud to boast of Miss vVinslow's winning of the
Pulitzer Prize for Jonathan E dwards and the enthusiastic reviews of Miss
Blanchard's edition of Steele's correspondence. The work of our faculty
for better housing, improved labor conditions, and peace have also been
important contributions to our community.
From our four-year association with these fine scholars we learn
much. From their precepts we get a great body of fact. Most of all, from
their example we gain an appreciation of life lived in fullness. Their
stability in disturbance, their eagerness for truth, and their appreciation
of beauty are to us models calling for emulation.
Jack will not be made a dull boy so long as the tradition of Student-Faculty games is maintained.
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