WWCollegian - 1944 August 17

              By WALT BAKER
NORMAL MESSENGER:
From an early Normal Messenger,
official organ of the Western Wash­ington
Normal of 1903, is an item of
special interest. At that time a
student could start school at any
time. Board and room cost $3.50
to $4,00 per week; self boarding
cost $6.00 to $10.00 a month; no
tuition; library fee $10^% return­able;
textbooks were loaned free:—
Brother! What a Utopia that would
be.
Miss McBride, who is a frequent
visitor to the Edens Hall dining
hall, let us glance through a group "'
of old "Messengers" just for com­parison
sake. It was a monthly,
printed in booklet form. Many of
the prominent business men and ed­ucators
of today's Northwest were
prominent, students at that time ..
Miss McBride will gladly show her
"Messengers" to anyone - interested.
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A LITTLE,LEARNING
While browsing through a diction­ary
looking up the meaning of one
of Dr. Kangley's big elusive words,
I ran across the word "pedant," the
meaning of which was quite inter­esting
and decided it deserved a
little looking into... There are many
such' persons both in college and
in everyday life.. A pedant, tried
and true, is one who lives on the
fringes of learning and rides on
the skirts of scholarly achievement.
Because of a lack of either in­tellectual
acumen or of plain in­dustry
^he or she is satisfied to
joke or kid his way through the
labyrinthine ways of knowledge.
You can see it every day, especially
during this war... In the shipyards,
the military services, the guy on
the street and in college.
SHOULD DELVE:
His frequent exhibitions of learn­ing
are inopportune and needless;
his insistence upon the importance
of trifling matters of scholarship
are quite boring.
He has not drunk deeply of Pier­ian
springs," so says Webster, "the
shallow draughts« have intoxicated
his brain so that he is made dizzy
with but a medium amount of
knowledge while yet a maximum
of learned lumber reposes in his
head.
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HALF BAKED PEDANT
The pedant' is half baked or
half roasted. Therefore the intel­lectual
fare he prepares and dishes
put., is..' not., palatable and works
naught, but indigestion and con­fusion
to the mind... It is as if one
sat down to an all ill-prepared, un­dercooked,
half-raw, half-seasoned
dish of oysters... The chief ingred­ients
of time, clarity, and direction
were absent... Had a true scholar
prepared the victuals his sobriety,
reflection and thoroughness would
have produced something tasty, full
of savory juices, magical flavors,
and spiced to a nicety, with a deli­cate
bouquet and witching, verily
the incense affording cult to the
god of taste.
A pedant knows the rules, but he
doesn't know how to apply them.
His criterion of canon value is the
unbending yardstick. He walks with
unchanging pace1 and follows with
after wisdom in a rut. With one
hand he pores over verses and in
the other he holds his mistral ......
CRITICAL PERSON
His ambition is to criticise and
direct. He or she spends much
time in teaching when he or should
lQok toward improvement. He
Veigns a great, sober and comure-hensive
mien when others -„ speak
of something of which he knows
• little. He strokes his chin gravely
(Cohtihued oh Page Three)
Fall Quarter
Committees
Plan Opening
Busy working on completion of
plans for Opening Freshman week,
beginning September 24, are com­mittees
who were appointed by Vir­ginia
Sorgenfrei, general chairman
of the week.
Cheryl Smith has been appointed
to plan the Pajama party at Edens
hall, Sunday night.
Ann* Easterbrooks, chairman of
the Campus tour committee, will be
helped by Dale Burklund, Martha
Graves, Margaret Rutledge, Amy
ijean Allen, Dick Fackler, Bernice
Munsell, Mildred Spromberg, June
Shomshak, and RuthJLauber.
The automobile tour will be con­ducted
by Allen Rue, chairman,
John Germain, Mrs. Ruth Burnet,
Maryanne Golly, Gerald Pells, Zosia
Nowogroski, and Marje Sinnett.
The annual AWS Kid party will
be headed by Harriet Clow, AWS
president and Pat Gardiner, social
chairman.
Decorations and favors for the
party will be prepared by Jean Or­phan,,
chairman, Martha Graves,
and Joyce Ackley. Entertainment
will be planned by Virginia Pen­dleton,
chairman, Amy Jean Al­len,
and Beverly McNally.
Refreshments for the Kid party
are under the control of Thelma
Weingarten, chairman, Erline Shan- .
non, and Marje Thompson. Mar­garet
Rutledge is chairman of the
Clean-up committee. She will be
assisted by • Nell Kosola and Ruth
Williams.
Tuesday, Sept. 26's assembly
will be arranged by Betty Anderson,
chairman, Merrie Virginia Egger,
Doris Tedford, Robert De Pastel,
Alfred Clement, Peggy Custer.
Crystal Ackerman has been ap­pointed
chairman of the New Com­er's
mixer, to be held Tuesday night
of Opening Week. Others on the
committee are Nell Kosola, Mary
Agnes McLeod, Marilyn Anderson,
Pat Gardiner, Duane Walter, War-
(Continued on Page Three)
Hicks, Dutton Attend
State Conclave
Dr. Arthur C. Hicks, registrar, and
Wilbur Dutton, instructor i n , t he
• \ education department, represented
WWC at a meeting of the State
Board of Education held in Olym-pia
Wednesday.
The discussion concerned provis­ions
for a guidance counsel to make
available information to servicemen
on the G-I Bill of Rights and the
Bill for Disabled Veterans, which
concerns vocational education for
servicemen.
WWC Publishes for
Art Teachers
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You may become one of the 300
to 400 art teachers who share their
experiences in "Classroom Teach­ers
Art Association," a quarterly
magazine,- printed by the Art' de­partment
of WWC, by giving, your
name and address, together with
50 cents to Miss Hazel Plympton,
of the Art depatment.,
"Planned especially for classroom
teachers, 'Classroom Teachers Art
Association', is interesting and well
done," said Miss Piympton, in an
interview with the reporter.
Among the contributors to the
"Classroom Teachers Art Associa­tion"
are: Miss Priscilla Kinsman,
Of the Campus school; Miss Hazel
Breaky, Ai# department; Miss Haz­el
Plympton,••Art department; Miss
Virginia Sorgenfrei, WWC student;
Miss Pearl .Bartruff, Junior High
-school, and Miss Barabara Schmitt,
of Bellingham Schools.
VOL. XLI I—NQ. 41 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Thursday, August .7, 1944
Alma Mater
Entering freshman will first view the ivy covered walls of the admin­istration
building, September 25, the date set for the opening of fall quar­ter.
A busy week for those freshmen has been planned by the committees
in charge of opening week.
Post Cards Offered
Literary Students
To familiarize young people of
the state with the poems of Ella
Higginson, Bellingham writer and
former poet laureate of Washing­ton,
Miss Catherine Montgomery,
508 State street, offers Higginson
post cards for the entire grade to
any child sending her a carefully
written composition on the poet
or her work.
Elementary teachers now at
WWC, who have frequently admir­ed
Mrs. Higginson's residence op­posite
the main entrance to the
camups, it is expected will develop
this project in their grades this
fall.
Many Media Used
By Art Students
"Scratch crayon art is a teach­ing
medium of great variety," said
Miss Hazel Plympton of the Art
department-. "It's techniques sug­gest
black prints, etchings and oil
paintings," she said.
Art 125
The Art Relations class, Art 125,
is working in block prints which
are used in making Christmas
cards, table mats and wall hang­ings.
Art 165
The* art 165 class is making a
#tudy of childrenfs drawings in
relation to the stages of develop­ment
in the children. The first
development of children's interest
in art is called the. symbolic stage.
The children's interest during that
time is concerned mostly with
color and design and extends from
grade to grade. Next comes the third
kindergarten through the , third
stage and the decorative jstage.
"It is important to know the
various stages of development in
the child to help him preserve the
best in each stage," .said Miss.
Plympton: • 'v.';-' .::'''';
Bureau Makes
Appointments
Miss Elizabeth Hopper, head of
the Appointment bureau, announced
the following appointments:
Miss Helen Cryer Jorden, 3rd and
4th grades, Skagway, Alaska; Miss
Kathryn Newell, art in intermidiate
grades at Auburn; Mr. Ralph Nur-mi,
Jr. and Sr. athletics, Anchor­age,
Alaska; Mabel Haug, Junior
High, Custer; Susanna Kenney, 1st
2nd and 3rd grades, Rock Port; Mrs.
Clara Blunt, 6th grade, Union Gap
school; Miss Jean McGregor, 3rd
and 4th grades, Everson, Ruth Ire­land,
5th and 6th grades, Nooksack.
Freshman Week
Schedule Full
Plans for opening week are nearly
completed, according to Virginia
Sorgenfrei, chairman of the activ­ities.
Auto tours, entrance tests,:
kid, party, mixers, and receptions
are among the plans for the fresh­men.
The general program for the week
follows:
Sunday, September 24, open house
for residents of Edens hall, 8:30
p. m.
Monday, Sept. 25, opening assem­bly,
1:15 p. m.; Campus tours, 2:30
placement tests, 9:40 a. in.; assem­bly,
1:15 p. m.; Campus tours, 2:30
p. m.; automobile tour (tentative),
3:45 p. m.; entertainment, 8 p . m .
Tuesday, September 26, assembly,
9 a. m.; Freshman conferences, 10
a. m; ; registration of all Freshmen,
10:30-12:30 a. m.; pre-registratidn
of new transfer students, 10:30-12:30
a. m.; registration of new transfer
students, 3:30 p. m.; Freshman PE
conference, 3:30 p. m.; newcomers',
mixeiv^p. mi.
Weidnesday, September 27, achiev-men
tests (5). "8'f30 a. m.; registra­tion
of old students, 8-4:30 p. m.;
college aptitude and reading tests,
1 p. m.; open house, 3-4 p. m.; Kid
party for women, 8 p: m.; men's
swim, 8 p. m.
Thursday, September 28, regular
classes, 8-4 p. m.; AWS tea, 3 p . m .;
faculty reception for students, 8 p.
m.
-Friday, Sept. 29, regular class-:
es, 8-4 .p.. m.; regular assembly, 11
a. m.r All-College mixer, 8 p. m.
Saturday, September 30, All Col­lege
hike, 3:30 p. m.
Ella Higginson Home Houses Antiques;
Proves Proper Setting for Collection
By PAT BELLINGHAM
"When I first crossed the thresh- Interested in College
old of Clover Hill I realized that
this was home and the proper set­ting
for my collection of Early
American glassware," spoke Charles
Lanphear, local manager for the
Chicago, Milwaukee Railroad, from
his chair in the living room of the
interesting okt.home.
To the left of Mr. Lanphear 'was
the recessed window overlooking the
bay, in which the former owner
of Clover Hill, Ella Higginson,
wrote her memorable verse. From
this window, Miss Higginson viewed
the clover-covered slopes which in­spired
the famous stanzas of the
"Four Leaf Clover" . . .
FOURrLEAF CLOVER /
I know a place-where the sun is
like gold ..
And the cherry blooms burst with
snow, 1
And down underneath is the love-
• liest nook,
Where the Four-Leaf clovers grow;
One leaf is for hope,; and one for
faith 7
And one is for love, you know,
And God put another in for luck—
If you search you will find, where
they grow. '
But you • must have hope and you
must have faith
You must love and be strong and so^
If you work, if you wait you will
And the place
.Where the Four-Leaf clovers; grow;
The daughter of pioneers in the;
Oregon country, Ella Higginson de­cided
on the scenic spot overlook­ing
the city of Bellingham for her
home. With her house situated di­rectly
across High street from the'
college the poetess, developed anT i n ­terest
in the Nomalrby-the-Sea and
contributed, articles to the Messen­ger,
as the Collegian was known
at that time, which included, one
verse written especially for the;
college students. ;•=
In the last years of her life, Miss
Higginson led a more .and more,
secluded life, rarely venturing from
her home. Clover Hill became a
point of interest for out-of-town
visitors who were acquainted with
her poems. The Woodwork around
the walls and 10-foot high doors
are of finest imported hardwood
from South America; each window
is a different size. One of the
more eccentric furnishings is the
maps which papered all the walls. ^
Lanphear Starts Year Plan
"Following a 5-year plan of my
own," grinned Mr. Lanphear, "I
am attempting to resurrect the'
house and grounds in keeping with
the|a|masphere of the place."
Dqmif girls will remember the !pld
•hedge^and vines which completely;
hid the old home. Following pis
plan, Mr. Lanphear will replace thisU
superfluous greenery^ with; a- stoiie^
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