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Gil EHER COLLEGE I Roin Rrornise to Achieveiuenl 1885 1985 Gil EHER COLLEGE i roin rrornise to Achieveiuenl Contents Promise .._._......_........'.... 1 A City Campus ................ 8 Dear Mother ...'.. ,\. 15 A New Campos ........ 19 Academic Program, 22 Presidents . 28 Faculty v;...:,,yi.-.v>;..v-..-w. 30 Beyond the Classroom Walls ...... 34 Goucher and the Community 40 Achievement 44 The Second Century —A New Agenda? 48 The Goucher Quarterly/Summer 1984 Volume LXII/Number 4 The Goucher Quarterly (USPS 233-920) is published quarterly by Goucher College, Towson, Baltimore, Maryland 21204, Subscription $3.00. Second Class postage paid at Baltimore. I: ' •"--•J--: " c w (oh ,, f-Wi 9l <gott » ^e, or Promise ecause of the widespread belief in the o provide the future college with its T first home, Dr. Goucher deeded to the inferiority of woman's intellect, higher Conference an abandoned cornfield — two- thirds of an acre of land valued at $25,000 education for women was almost non- near the First Methodist Church (now B Lovely Lane Church) where he served as IHH existent in early 19th-century America. pastor. Nowhere in Maryland could a woman receive For the next five years Dr. Goucher devoted himself to the establishment of a a college education (though there were seven college that would treat women as the equals of men, with a curriculum that would exclusively male colleges and universities in prepare them for a lifetime of learning and achievement. His wife, Mary Cecelia the state), for women were considered phys­ Fisher, shared his vision. As heiress to the ically and mentally incapable of the rigors of Fisher fortune, she provided the money for their many gifts to the college. a college curriculum. John Franklin Goucher proposed to reverse this prejudice. In 1883 he urged the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in celebration of its own centenary, to establish a first-class institution of higher education for "the daugh­ ters of Christian parents." he new Methodist college, which was formally dedicated last night, is an T institution that promises splendid re- HflB suits for education, and for Baltimore. It is founded on modern ideas, constructed with thorough taste and convenience, and officered by wide-awake, accomplished men who will make its success substantial and permanent. It will educate the physical as well as the mental being, and its results will be a great benefit to all who come within its influences. Baltimore News, 1888 he Methodist congregants shared Dr. tember 1888 the college opened its doors to T Goucher's hope for women's higher students, who registered with $100 tuition. education by reaching deep into their Despite its Methodist origins, the college pockets for funds to show "not that we love was not to be managed in a sectarian spirit. our sons less or our daughters more," but to "The Christian type of womanly character is give women "equal advantages in the busi­ upheld," stated Dr. Van Meter, "although no ness of life." Methodist women rallied. Mrs. effort is made to influence denominational Mary Bangs, a woman of humble means, preferences." Eventually, the Methodist in­ donated a five-dollar gold piece, the first fluence waned, and the college became cash for what became the Woman's College independent of its founding organization. of Baltimore. "For years I have been hoping At the first commencement address in and praying for some such movement as 1892, Dr. Goucher set an early standard of this," she said. Meanwhile, Methodist min­ excellence for the new college: "We offer as ister John Blackford Van Meter championed testimony that the aim of the college is the Goucher educational philosophy of "the quality, not quantity, the fact that with formation of womanly character for womanly nearly 400 students and four years of ends" as he, too, fervently worked to make decided success, we admit today but five to Mary Fisher Goucher the daring concept of a women's college a the degree of A.B." When Dr. Fisher suggested that Dr. Goucher reality. Through the years, high standards proved wanted his daughter Mary Fisher for her On January 26, 1885, the fledgling more than their own reward. As early as money, Dr. Goucher replied, "I want her for college obtained a charter of incorporation, 1905 Goucher was granted the second her own sake, but I think I could do a great and the Woman's College of Baltimore City chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in the state of deal of good with her money too. ..." He came into legal existence. (The word "City" Maryland. The college established the first did. Many say that the college was founded was dropped in 1890.) By March 5th the department of physiology and hygiene in with his vision—but with her money. Methodists had secured the required funds, any women's college in the country and saw and by the close of their memorable con­ its graduates enroll in the first classes of the ference on March 12, 1885, the college had Johns Hopkins Medical School. Even today its official founding and the nation had a the remarkable tradition continues with promise for one of its first women's colleges. nearly 70 percent of Goucher applicants It took another three years to erect accepted to medical school over the last Goucher Hall, to find a president, recruit a ten years. faculty, and design a curriculum. In Sep­ Anna Miles The Blue Line horse car Kirk I remember that it was on the 14th of September 1888 that I journeyed north on St. Paul Street on the Blue Line horse car, and getting off at 22nd Street, walked west. When I entered the ladies' parlor of the First Methodist Church for entrance to the Woman's College, I had no idea I was beginning on one of the best experiences of my life. A few over 50 students registered in those two days. ... I remember that nobody knew who would be in the first graduating class until toward the end of their third year. Then it was announced that Her father sold a cow for tuition. five students who had entered the first year When Anna Miles registered at the would form, if all went well, the class of Woman's College of Baltimore in 1888, her 1892. That was an exciting time for us. father Abram Miles made his first contribu­ Anna Heubeck Knipp '92 tion to the cause of women's higher educa­ First class president tion through the sale of a cow from his farm. (Later, when Goucher was at a low ebb financially, he sold a mule.) Although Anna Miles attended the college only two years, she impressed her daughters with the im­ portance of going to Goucher. Anna Miles' enthusiasm for the college was rewarded: Anna Heubeck Knipp her daughter, Elisabeth Kirk Weller, gradu­ ated in 1926 and her granddaughter, Ann Weller Dahl, graduated in 1960. Somewhat unwillingly, the first students escaped from their long skirts and hourglass waists to gym bloomers. The gymnasium had a swimming pool, a running track, and 37 Zander machines. The college imported Swedish instructors to oversee the Stockholm- designed Zander machines in the highly advanced physical education program. Committed to educating the body as well basically unchanging mission of the institu­ as the mind, Goucher pioneered the con­ tion: the pursuit of excellence through the cept of physical education as a regular part finest of traditional and innovative of the college curriculum. Bennett Hall education. gymnasium, with the first women's college John Franklin Goucher chose well when The Swedish Zander machines in Bennett Hall gymnasium. swimming pool and the daringly "modern" he chose the college motto from I. Thessalo- Swedish Zander machines, was considered nians: "Prove all things; hold fast that which to be the finest in the country. Highly is good." As we will see in this Centennial controversial in the Victorian era, physical reminiscence, the first hundred years of training is still an integral part of Goucher's Goucher College have both tested and "wellness" program for physical and mental proved the basic premises of a liberal arts health. education. In such an education there has The vocational guidance services begun been change within the continuity of the in 1897 have evolved into the present career founders' vision. In such an education we development services. Combining the best hold fast to what we value as we perfect the of traditional liberal arts with the best of promise of the future. contemporary fields of study, Goucher is now among the first women's colleges to require computer literacy and to teach freshman English through an extensive computer network. To train students for the world of work, the college developed one of the first political science internships in the country and later extended the internship program to all disciplines. Perhaps most important is the ability to adapt to the needs of the times while adhering to the principles upon which the college stands. The college has moved far from the Victorian "womanly character for womanly ends," but it has not allowed the requirements and aspirations of contempo­ rary society to alter the primary and r " ^ ~ The Girls' Latin School (WCB's little sister) The original requirements for the Woman's College were so stringent that few secondary schools adequately prepared young women for entrance. The college consequently founded its own prep school in 1890 to give women further sub-collegiate training be­ fore matriculation. The Girls' Latin School quickly made a name of its own. In 1906 the U.S. Commissioner of Education reported: Catherine Hooper Hall "Of all the private schools for girls in the Catherine Hooper Hall housed the Girls' United States which prepare exclusively or Latin School until 1909.
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