Word: goucher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pert and pretty president who was only 33 when she came to the college. Born in Louisville, she had studied at Goucher, later took a doctorate in philosophy at the University of London. When Sweet Briar found her, she was an associate dean at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Mass. In her three years at Sweet Briar, she held fast to her rule that "the administration of a college is the servant of great teaching." She herself taught a course in the philosophy of religion, spent her days wrestling with a shrinking budget and dictating letters "anyplace and anywhere, even under...
Bloomers & Doctors. Goucher College (present enrollment: 740) had a tradition all its own. It was the first women's college in the U.S. to establish a department of physiology and hygiene; its alumnae were among the first women ever accepted at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. It encouraged other innovations, Goucher had its bloomer girls when bloomers were still a shocking novelty. Nowadays its students take only three courses at a time, are tested not merely on the facts they know but on such broader matters as their understanding of scientific method, their enjoyment of art, their grasp...
...year ago, when Goucher went hunting for a new (and sixth) president, it found just the man it wanted, at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. Balding, 47-year-old Otto Frederick Kraushaar had been teaching philosophy at Smith for 14 years. He liked Goucher just fine, both for size (he scorns mass "diploma mills") and for the fact that he'd still be teaching women ("If you educate a man, you educate an individual; if you educate a woman, you educate a family"). By last week, when he was inaugurated, Philosopher Kraushaar found himself facing a few problems unique...
Town & Country. Since 1942 Goucher has had two campuses, one the original site in Baltimore, the other an unfinished modern campus eight miles away in suburban Towson. It was one too many. The plan had been to move Goucher intact to Towson. Then wartime shortages and skyrocketing prices slowed construction...
...Half of Goucher's activities take place in town, on the old campus, half in the country. To keep student traffic moving between Baltimore and Towson, Goucher has gone into the transportation business, at a cost to the college of about $50.000 a year. Among the commuters is President Kraushaar himself, who has an office on campus No. i and a house near campus No. 2. His main job will be to raise $2,000,000 to complete the move to Towson. If all goes well, his girls will be getting together...