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_P_A_G_E_TW_O T_h_e_G_o_ld_B_u_::g:,.,W_~_te_'n_M_,..:,y_landCollege, Westminster, Md., Thursday, October 19, 1944 !Jt M«;Jd cJ/aoe, Been It might have been more like you had vocation, the Christmas service, inves- Live your college life as if it were Will you be able to help? or will you be pictured it-you Freshmen, I mean, if titure, baccalaureate, and commence- your only life. Your entire future is a weight on the wheels of progress? war hadn't come. You've probably sat ment. Yet-there's something gone- based on what you derive from your War must not come again. It is up to in bygone days and dreamed-"Wonder that effervescent feeling and the spirit work. Whatever you are doing-study, your generation to see that it does not. what college life will be like?" You've of "do-or-die" for Western Maryland. extra-curricular, or social, get the ut- For the nations of the earth cannot sur- supposed there would be social life, But that will return with time. most out of it-opportunity may only vive, another war. If the brilliant dances, football, basketball, and a little A good beginning is essential. Unfor- be present once. It is a weak person minds of all the peoples are allowed to study-but it is different, isn't it? tunately, there are too many (profess- who must look back upon his college run in channels of hatred and planning For time has pushed ahead much ors included) who base their opinions life and "kick" himself for the "paths" for destruction, then-there is no hope. more Quickly-responsibility has been on first impressions. It is much easier to that he took. When decisions are to be We must be prepared to push all our forced upon you, perhaps before you make a good start than to have to rec- made, study them now-do not regret efforts and personal abilities toward want it. That carefree life, so charac- tify a poor one. Disciplining yourself is them later. the brotherhood of all nations, -else all teristic of youth and college days, has important. For the first time many of These four years are grand years. is lost. been swept away. Your job is import- you are cut away from direct guidance They mark the most definite change of Remember, responsibility is yours. It ant-most so as those at Belfort and of parents-be careful and make wise your life-from youth to adulthood. was yours the moment you stepped Guam-c-failure by you equals defeat by decisions. 'I'he preparation that you make will go across the threshold of college. You them. f Everyone is your friend at Western far in planning the world of tomorrow. can't turn back-you'd be a quitter. It's The Hill will still be somewhat the Maryland. The administration, the pro- This is a grave, weary, and saddened up to you to prove your worth-or same. It has kept its beauty, and Na- fessors, and fellow students alike-all world-it will take new life and hope to shall we a few years hence repeat, "It ture has been very generous to our sur- are there to help you. Their advice may rebuild peace and happiness. This as- might have been." roundlnzs. The air of congeniality, and be faulty, or may SEEM very wrong at sienment has been given to you-your our "Hello" have not been and should times. but listen to them. That is their sincere applications and honest effort not be lost. And still, we have our con- job. No one is trying to mislead you. -will shape the events for years to come. Then And Now On Hoffa Field By Shirley Snyder By Sara Jane Rice "Breathes there a man with soul so dead This semester I begin my first education course. And Who never to himself hath said" I'm attempting to see it "clearly and sec it whole" as I am for Roosevelt or I am for Dewey? Matthew Arnold would say. If there be such, boil him in oil, to save him from the I'm going to carry a typical person up the steps to campaigners. Campaigners are vivacious characters who, learning and thereby perceive just what this education is with a pistol in one hand and a Dewey or Roosevelt pin in all about. the other, approach degenerate looking souls and try to Sadly, but not oddly, enough, we can't in the style of old give them a new interest in living. morality plays call this typical person "Everychild". To And they do. Because just look how everybody perks every parent a child of theirs is no more of an everychild when a political argument is in full sway. Notice the than is Everyman its father. Realizing this, our person warmth and pump handlenesa of the handshake when a shall be Ann Twerp, in honor of the Flemish era of ar- Dewey supporter meets a Dewey supporter. tistic superiority. If you go into a room and see a pile of bodies holding To begin, the child learns to walk in the pre-primary down a screaming victim, don't get excited. It's just a age-not particularly because some one has taken him bunch of Dewey fans trying to convince a Roosevelt man aside and sympathetically explained the political, social, he's wrong. That is, don't get excited unless you're for and economical advantages of so doing. Eating with the Roosevelt. If you are-c-exit, toute de suite! Just be sure utensils of civilization begins in a somewhat desultory you know whether Dewey or Roosevelt's on top, lest you manner. hold down a man after your own heart. The educators in grade one show Ann that there are You can make quite a study of personalities around many people responsible for the comforts enjoyed by her family. This knowledge is attractively grouped under the election time! There is the "I am for Roosevelt! Wanna make sumepin' of it?" character. Then there's the sad general titles Food, Shelter, Homes, Clothing, Transpor- tation. I have chosen from my file an entry in the note- sack who waits to see which way the crowd's blowing, bew book of G-R. It is here offered for those classical per- fore he ventures a meek, "my father's for Dewey." Look. sons who insist upon fact before fancy, and because what out for the wit who, when you ask him what Dewey's is the use of authentic documents if they aren't used once domestic policy is, says, "Keeping his wife at home." The people that really make you writhe are those who claim in a whilie. GR, then, Iaboriouslv copied in said notebook to be independent until the election's over; but then they the following. (Note: all embarrassing language has been carefully revised.) gil off like an alarm clock with the inevitable-"I was for "Today we learned about food. The farmer grows the him," (the winning man) all the time. Oh, but they make sells the grain. We eat bread, ,my blood boil. ) grain. The storekeeper supper. Tomorrow we shall learn biscuits, cakes, for It also makes my blood boil to hear somebody say he's about shelter." for-oops-I'm supposed to be impartial. Well, can I help Grade two presents to Ann the components of a com- «JE."IlUIRII,INC.._IQH it if I'm for (censored). Reprinted from the November iS1ueof Esquire. The moral m my story is-beware of shooting your munity. This includes i the mail man delivers the mail, political views to the breeze, unless you're well-backed, "'P'e made tr" the garbage man collects the garbage, the kind policeman helps little boys and girls, always tell the kind policeman because the meekest, mildest individual may up and wack you with a few boards from his party's platform. Gone are the days when calisthenics were the fashion and your name and address. of boys In grade three Ann learns of the communities teamwork was placed in the background; now, the physical educa- and'girls in far-away lands. She discusses frankly the tion department is placing much emphasis upon competitive sports Food, Shelter, Homes, and Clothing of Eskimos, Nor- and co-operation. Great stress is being placed upon the necessity wegians, Indians, and all others, without reservation. for co-operation in the modern youth's life, now and during the The reading matter in grade four has proved valuable Junior class elections for the year 1944-45 in- post-war perlod. It is not merely a question of building up the to present day song writers. For example, the following clude the following officers: (Cant. on page 4, col. 1) lines from Ann's text: President, Don Capobianco "The porcupine ran off and the little gray elephant Vice-president, Fred Morgan Campus Personality Marshall' thought to himself, '''No creature in aU the dark jungle Secretary, Harry Mattax will ever walk with me again save only the little porcu- Treasurer, Jack Mote pine. And he is so cross and prickly that I will never walk Historian, Jeanne Berryman -1w.ice An "A.B." with him again." Obviously, here is the direct inspiration for "I'll Walk Alone." I withhold any comment concerning the IQ's of Dr. Thomas Marshall, of the Eng- is a history of the Philadelphia Thea- song writers. the the on Beginning THE GOLD BUG lish Department, is known and mus- tre and its preparation entailed news- eralities are excluded. Historical and geographical gen- with grades five and six, all glittering campus by his brisk gait of four Philadelphia, study con- Official student newspaper of Western Maryland Col- tachio smile. While lecturing, his papers covering a period of four ditions enter all frank discussions of the boys and girls in lege, published semi-monthly, on Thursday, during Oc- characteristic gestures include swing- years. Parts of this work are al- communities in far-away lands. tober, November, January, February, March, and April, ing his spectacles recklessly to and ready in print and all will appear We skip along and find that Ann is now an adolescent. and monthly during September, December, and May. En- fro during a sentence or two of par- after the war from the press of the This is the most interesting age, but for reasons of tered as second etess matte .. at westmtnster Post office, enthetical musing, and then flipping University of Pennsylvania. rime, space and other infinities, it shan be the shortest. under the Act of March 3, 1879. From a very free translation of the original French, I ~:i:a;~~;l~c~: ~::; ;~ jt~~! ~~ .~:me .Two Problems Subscription Price $2.00 a Year Born in Milford, Delaware a com-" Dr. Marshall came to a Western quote again the notebook of GR. This is the psychology of adolescence: for-table number of years ago, Dr. Mary!and th~t offered two ~~jor dif- Editor-in-Chief .. . Lillian Jackson, '45 "Where are you going?" Managing Editor. _ Mary Va. Webb, '45 Marshall has traveled extensively in ficulties : HIS former pcsttton had "What is your hurry?" News Editors. .. Virginia Voorhees, '46 England, especially the southern per- been in Valley Forge Military Acad- "I hope you will be back soon?" John Del Vecchio, '47 tiona immortalized by Blackmore and emy where classes were made up of "Bring your brother." Copy Editors ~a:;ra;ei.a~:d~~~: :!~ Hardy. :~: ch~;m~:~ ~~~~~eiiit~~ST~!u:~~::. In high school and college begin the division of learning Business Manager. . _.., Dennis Blizard, '45 .High School Degree difficulty was that at this time the matter into more restricted areas. (This term is not used Advertising Manager Margaret Frederick, '45 with any particular army in mind, understand.) And if Circulation Managers Fred Brown, '48 He graduated from Philadelphia's war was bringing to the campus HiIlmore LangraJl, '48 Central High School, the second old- many changes of great importance. Ann becomes interested and proficient in one or two of Contributors: est public high school in America, These also were met with judgment. these areas, a low point of intelligibility is automatically John Barnes, Charles Brooks, Kaye Buckel, Don Capo- with a Bachelor of Arts degree. This established in all others. bianco, Daphne Clark, Onetee Cohen, Mary Davies, Betty is the only school of its kind in the Now he has taken over section "A" After .college Ann is awarded stripes, of which-there Dixon, Joyce Edwards, Thelma Evans, Jan Lee Oanz, country authorized to give such a de- of freshman English, formerly under are degrees, for knowing the most about a chosen sub- Mae Langrall, Henry Lamadr-id, Louise Mesloh, Allen the instruction of Dr. George S. Wills, Poffenberger, Fern Ray, Betty Roberts, Warren Roberts, gree to any of its graduates. recently retired. ject, or "field," as they are called. Specialization has now Sara Jane Rice, Virginia Ross, Eleanor Schilke, June From Temple University in Phila- ctoeed in about Ann and when her 'mother calls her for Smith, Ruby Stein. Mary Elizabeth Todd, Marjorie Cas- delphia, Dr. Marshall was awarded a ·."Personality Boy breakfast each morning she says; "Breakfast is ready, sen, Lee Beg-lin, Beverly Holland, Mary Jane Collard, second B.A.; since then he has been Once known as "Personality Boy" Ann Twerp ABAMPhD." Dorothy Schubert, Betty Powell, Shit-lev Snvder, Nan Aus- tin, Carroll D012:2'ett.Josephine Bove, Pat Donovan, Doris a teacher--even of football. of Temple University, our campus per- When a professor stands in front of my class and says; Hines, Donna DuVall. After earning his Mastei· 'of Arts sonality is now an admired and r