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Letters Prof. Makosky Milestones To The Editor Reminisces ... Progress by John D. Makoskv Note: (Editor's To tne EdiwT: Back in the early 20's, Western sort of composite The following is a editorial, made up For the past three years in t.he Maryland was still segregated from Those of you who were at the Sadie new scheme or interior decoration. Gold Bl~g, I have read letters com- actuality as a result of the iron cur- Hawkins Dance may remember the instead of hanging pennants on the cf excerpts from editorials and let- ters to the editor years. of former plaining of the food in the dining tain of the Lewis dictatorship, which Deen of Wimmin of Phogbound Uni- walls like normal people do, they hang They indicate a certain trend of' ) hall. Now that the days of revolting had terminated in 1920. Campus veral ty-c-Mary Wanna Hidden thought discernible down through the dishes, lipstick-stained silver and mores were mid-Victorian: social con- behind that stern evterior was none cups, and leaving the dining hall as tact between the sexes (still termed other than Mary Alice Hershfuld, years and still with us today.] empty as you entered seem to have "parlor") was confined to the half- Argonaut, Iota Gamma Chi, Dean's •. February 19, 1924 passed, I think it's high time for com- hour after supper, the girls' dorm- Lister, French Club. member, and last "Yale University of 30 years ago mendation. itories were padlocked at 7 p. m.. but not least, Editor-in-chief of th a should not have enjoyed a social life The administration should be com- chapel service was compulsory at 1!)48Aloha. more pleasant than the student body mended for its fine selection (it was 7:45 a. m. each day, female students Hersh, in her 0\\11 quiet way, ha.s at western Maryland enjoys now in probably an accident) of a steward. were marched to church in columns l-ad a slightly extraordinary life, an.l 19i:!4. Yet there are the facts. The The steward, in turn, should be com- of squads, no dancing was tolerated comes fr-om a slightly c'xtraordinru-y Yale Promenade is one of the most delightful occasions of the whole so- mended for his excellent work-for on campus, no smoking was permitted family. Mrs. Hershfeld used to be :J. the quality, variety, and tastiness of in public (exception-the Wills pipe), labor-atory technician, until family life cial year at the University. the food as well as the cleanliness of literary societies staged "oratorical became too complicated. MI·. Hersh- "At the present time all the col- the have frequent the equipment. contests", and the current absence fuld, after a varied career, is at pres- leges of where State intermingling of dances, the Let us all hope the improvement system knocked a student's grade ent compiling u book of words. To continues. down one Jetter for every three ab- date he has 232 loose-leaf notebooks the sexes has resulted in a higher Sincerely yours, sences. No visible intellectual free- full of words-and all the notebooks type of college life. in the . Hence, there of can be no doubt thought A Satisfied St'udent. dom lurked about the campus. Fac- are present, much to Mrs. H's regret, the broadminded as to the worth that ulty opinion had a reassuring, but on shelves built into the living room unhealthy unanimity; students had such social affairs, held within the To tne Ediwl" of The Gold B1tg: That living room, by the way, is lo- confines of the college, can bring _ Not unlike many American college no opinion at all (at least in public). cated in St. Denis, Md. According to forth .... " students today, I find myself con- Teachers with too sturdy an inde- lIersh, St. Denis is an enormous l\Iareh 4, 1924 stantly pondering the state of our pendence to conform to pattern moved place-three blocks square-with the Jl.fa1"y Alice Hershfeld • "Some will say that the girls have world and the outlook for its future, on quickly-from one reason or an- middle block a vacant lot! self-government. Is not that all a and I am always plagued with the other; naturally no student secret Two sisters, eleven and twclve theirs on the ceiling, so that when student body could ask for 1 I beg to penetrating question of where we as organizations, in which uncensored years old, and a 23-yenr-old brother they lie down on the beds there's differ; it is not self-government, al- students fit into this not too pleasing ideas might germinate, were allowed. complete the family picture. Brother something interesting to look at. though it is so-called. When the girls picture. The only college publication was a is married, and is a swell guy-" Ot In spite of, or because of, a quick enroll as students they are considered magazine, devoted monthly "literary" Twenty-nine years ago on Novem- course," sez Hersh, "it took a world wit and ready sense of humor, Hersh incapable of conducting themselves ber 11, 1918, there was a great happi- to poems and essays on Beauty an"d war to get Us on speaking terms, but is very serious about her plans for properly until the day they receive ness throughout the world and people Truth. President A. N. Ward should everything is swell now." Also with the future. She wants to be .m their diplomas. from many countries were looking not be blamed for much of this; he English teacher for ten months of the "It is a present day feeling that forward to the future for a new life had inherited an autocracy, and it's lis great pride Madam Editor mentioned ac- year, and a camp counselor for the our democracy is to prosper, the be- if her eleven-year-old sister's great not easy to supplant an autocracy, of peace and happiness for all. Since complishment. SO great is it, that it other- two. She likes poetry and swim- ginnings must be laid in college, if that time much has transpired, in- we are learning once more. won her the title of Queen of the ming and working at Cape Cod during before, and students must cluding economic depressions in many • WMC Needs A Newspaper the summer. (That's where she got not ear-ly countries and another war, the se- In the fall of 1923, I was rooming Bubble Gum Blowers! that yaller slicker and hat.) Of course, be taught the duties and responsibili- verity of which had hitherto been \!n- in Room 109, Ward Hall. One night It seems that Mary Alice is some- she says she's a serious person, and ties that fall upon the individual i'1 experienced. in late November, I was visited by a what of a musician. In addition to who are we to disbelieve her? But a democracy. It is also the concensus opinion arisen of that there has Today we stand looking hopefully Westminster student, also a junior, "laying the organ at her church for if you were to walk into a certain among aelf-goverrring students a bet- to the future in much the same way named Sterling Edwards. Edwards two years, she also" plays away at ., room on campus and were to see the they did after the last war, but we was a man of robust physique and the flute. Hersh claims that it cre- Misses Houck, Lingenfelter, and ter attitude toward the college and tossed about by silk hat politicians. not have to be captured at the sword's rehabilitation is immediate. We must Department) and Owings Hall (the made its entrance, and the name oj • Declaration of the Rights of Man point .. bear our share of the burden knowing central wing of the old building, now this cnterprising organization is the This summer in Paris, UNESCO .. Novem~r 30, 1932 full well that the future is to be mold- happily demolished) we planned a "Ten O'clock Tea and Pinochle Club.'· and the Committee on Human Rights Narrow is the key-word to the so- ed largely by our own hands. newspaper for \Vestern Maryland: The charter members are Fletcher began working on a universal bill of cial situation, for instead of having Respectfully, name-Black and White; ,slogan- \\'ard, Tom Barnes, Shermer Garri- rights or a "Declaration of the Rights a divergent nature, the limits are Wayne H. Cowan. "You know it's so-you saw it in S(:'O, and Bob Wagner. They meet convergent. To put it colloquially, Black and White"; publication- every night at ten to· play pinochlu of Man." However, it was realized weekly; editor-Sterling Edwards; and drink tea, and their purpose that for such a bill to be respected W.M.C. is a "one-horse" college. of all, Any lecture, the world it must have as throughout concert, First news editor--.Tohn Makosky; business THE GOLD BUG manager-Charles Bish; purpose-to (ahem) is "to promote conviviality,·' its basis the "thoughts and convic- "Y" party, or conference, though give a voice to student opinion and or "don't Jet yonr studies intcrfere tions of people in every country." optioned Isic) , takes full precedent O!lldal .tudent n" .....paper otW •• tern..J.ary. with your education." What will we The $64 question is how to determine over the one social outlet on the l&nd (Jon.ge. publi.hed .eml·monthl,. on feelings in the college, with the hope ;'ri(8)·. durin!' October. NovellTber. Janu· of improving the college; subordinate have next??? the "convictions" of the people of the " Hill ": the McDaniel Lounge. A ary. Febrnuy. March and April. and monthl)' "Si" Sibiski is not our claim l,,~ a peculiar combination of an in· small college indeed that can embrace dUMng September, Oeeember, and !IBy. En· purpose-to publicize in every way tered a. eecond ela"s mstter at Westminster the merits of the fraternity ideal. t(> basketball fame, but our new tellectual college and a social gram- no more than one social function at a P03t Ollie., nnder tbe Act ot March 8, 1879 The first paper was published im- ping pong champion. He defeated mar school, governed by the ideas of time! What is more indicative of BUMcrlptJon Prlee $2.00 a Year "Waldo" Hajduk after a bst and ages past. Petty nagging by those narrowness? mediately after the retu~ from the Christma~ vacation, in early January, furious game in the" TCC" l·oom sev- who should be the social guides and Then too, the so-called parties seem Editor-in·chief.. • •••..•••.. Fern Ray 1924. From the beginning the re- Coralnights ago before a group of in- leaders has resulted in the creation juvenile because of the time limit. Maosging Editor ......•.•..•.. Jean Oohen sponsibility for the paper fell pri- terested spectators. Congratulations, c.f a spirit, not of satisfied happiness, What modern, progressive college ad- New. Editor .•.... : Lenore Hoffman }'ea\ure Editor.. . Janice G~nz marily upon Edwards, who wrote Si. but of continual discontent, and an- vocates that its students end their '3poru; Editor ..••........... Robel"t Dobel More engagcments! Seems to be social affairs at ten? Shades of little, COpy Editor..... • ••••. Betty Lee Robbin. nearly all the editorial material as Thand .. Lee Kompan.k well as a column of humor, gossip, nlmost a fad among the women stu- :~:0:~~~ti:~:S:~~f~:~i:r~ct~2~~. exist- old New England with John and BUSINESS STUB' and poetry; upon me-I wrote most dents of the female sex here o'n .. I can only say that I am Priscilla! llu.ine"s Menage Phym. Honek of the straight news; and upon Bish, campus .. thankful that I did not attend here in Ad~ert!.ing Menager ••• • •••••. Ted Quelch • March 4, 1937 Circulation Manoger ... . .. Dena Grauel who saw that money was collected Jean Berryman, class of '46 by-gone times. I appreciate the ef- " Mid-Victorianism ! Yea, verily I and bills paid-and also wrote oc- Pat Patterson and Josh Ensor forts of those among the student body say unto you, it's gettjng under my 'Vayn. Cowan, Naner 'Vinkelman. Joen casional articles of all kinds. I should Nancy Bounds and Les Hastings who are striving for the social better- skin. It's the attitude about too many Bsker. Relen Ray, Ed. Wright. Pletcher Ward. Ruth Allen. :.r...rilyn DeMott. Bllen like to repeat, however, that the idea, Pat and Josh will be married May ment of Western Maryland, but it things on the Hill. We've been Jec- 'Virld",,~. Peggy Stacy. Jane Guttmann, Jim (Continucd on. page 3, column 2) 31 in Baker Chapel. (Continucd on page 3, column 3) (Continued on page 4, column 3) Ogden, Barbar .. Payne, Ad.. Lee llan:lru;ter.