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Most students admit, however, that Bard is a far from ideal place in which to spend an entire year, or even a month, unbroken. Each Friday, therefore, a fairly large number board trains, drive automobiles, or simply hitchhike the 95 miles to New York City...
...best way, perhaps, to describe Bard's social life in a few words is set forth by Richard M. Gummere '34, chairman of Bard's Board of Admission. "The only social rule at Bard is not to follow any social rules for the sake of conforming." Yet, in such a small place, it follows automatically that the students can be individuals merely by existing in the community...
This emphasis on individuality at such a small place has frequently led to a complete disregard for the community. Not only is this reflected by the apathy in student organizations, but in the devil-may-care attitude to the honor system. Bard has parietal rules drawn up by the students themselves, and an honor system, but as one student described it, "As long as we don't bother anyone else, we don't pay too much attention to the rules...
Both students and officers agree that Bard ought to be larger, roughly double its size. Such expansion might solve both financial and faculty problems and would create a more varied yet more integrated student body...
...oldest buildings on campus, behind a heavy wooden door with a sign saying, "President's Office, Walk in Without Knocking," with his feet on the desk, sits the man who is chiefly concerned with these and other problems about Bard's future.--James Case, Bard's president. On his desk are several books, but one especially--"Causes of Public Unrest in Education" arrests the visitors eye and seems in a sense to be a reflection of Bard College...