College Social Life
Another great excerpt from Paul Helmreich’s Wheaton College, 1834-1957: A Massachusetts Family Affair, this time a direct quote from the Faculty Meeting Minutes discussing class cutting on January 5th, 1939:
The meeting was illuminating. The most vocal of these students were quite frank in declaring that they had come to college quite as much for social as for intellectual reasons and that Wheaton is the base for an education which is pursued elsewhere and centers chiefly about men. They consider that their various fees and the requirement of certain minimum grades constitute a high price which they pay for this privilege, and that as long s the payment is made the Faculty should not question their cutting as frequently as they want to, or feel any sense of responsibility for them.
I can absolutely see this issue from both viewpoints, and to some extent I support both views. Such is the nature of these things.
I guess since you mentioned Wheaton that this would be the point where I tell you that whilst with a certain ladyfriend at a Dresden Dolls show (they being latest and greatest Boston-based goth punk cabaret band in the past six or so months), I saw a person there who looked very much like a very young West Coast, complete with wire-rimmed glasses and mohawk. I would have talked to him had I not the belief that as soon as Harvey Birdman quotes failed to amuse him, I would have beaten some sense into him. I did, however, have a pint of Guinness and figured you would have approved of that, at the very least.
Posted by: Benjamin on December 16th, 2003 12:12 PM