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Show Mortar Board Merits Teacher Who Likes To Learn . Utah and added that it the University she enjoys the frte- I dom to teach is -she want!. U As students We. - appreciate the University for-'the atm- U phere that encourages such ex- , A cellence and expression ffl l teaching, and professors Df- fl Clarice Short for their capacity a to develop the whole student i to meet the real challenge of R education today. I By DIXIE TAYLOR Mortar Board Editor EDITORS BOTEi Mortar Board, senior woman's honorary, hon-orary, U interested la roaoo icallence ia college teaching. Accordingly. It ku ataaiUaad "Mortar Board Merits." This award 1 daiiqrnad to riona rhoee pra-(ors pra-(ors who, to tha students' opinions, opin-ions, exhibit excepnWel aMUSes to lnarat Dr. Clarice Short, University English professor and Mortar Board Alumni la graduate of the University of Kansas and Cornell University and has studied at Berkeley Harvard, Oxford and Weimar. Born in Kansas, Dr Short was reared in the Oiarkg and has spent much time ia northern New Mexico She joined the UnJ-veraipy UnJ-veraipy faculty in 1946, concen- la ting on NUwrteenth Century Literate. Dr. Short has served serv-ed fluents ftuuide the class-noi class-noi a i acuity sponsor of Mortar Soard atvi the Associate Assoc-iate Women Students. Her -uy arrnl cholarty writings ve appeared in editions of "PMt,.; "Modern Language Nfrm '; "Nineteenth Century .tion"; "Western Humanities tevie.- for which she also wro4 regular feature, "Here ai rhert in the Humanjtlea," "The University ia a cooper- ative activity a battle against ignorance and barbarism. To win," said Dr. Clarice Short dLcusing the respective roles of participants In education," the faculty and the students must respect each other as human beings both in and out of the classroom " Dr. Short added that one of the best ways- for this mutual respect to develop is through frequent association In joint and significant sig-nificant projects.. BOTH STUDENTS and teachers have a full-time commitment com-mitment to education. The student stu-dent should sense his present situation as a means to an nd and therefore dedicate himself him-self to taking advantage of all university offers: plays, Bporta, music, books, lectures, m well as dasswork, "In these times it is a moral obligation to develop one', self," said Dr Short. "The university is the most effective place) In which to do this as it supplements self-discipline with external discipline." The good teacher mutt also t perennial student. In the worda of Goethe he "must know a great deal to teach a little. In addition. Dr. Short fels the good teacher should make an original contribution to knowledge. For instance, an English professor, through his own writing, gains considerable insight into literature. To be successful in this and other respects, the teacher must ultimately ult-imately narrow his energies to one particular channel "But," said Dr. Short, "he cannot can-not afford to forget the time when his interests were broader broad-er and his activities were more varied." Consciousness of these broad experiences is the basis for what is. to Dr. Short, the most desired quality in teaching teach-ing a breath of understanding as well as knowledge. "The final purpose of education" ed-ucation" summarized Dr. Short, "is to develop the Greek Ideal of the balanced peraon. This person of a wide variety of Interests and pleasures whether it is reading read-ing Camus,' fishing, writing poetry, or skiing under control." con-trol." A RESOURCE for the natural nat-ural Imagery in her poetry, this love of and familiarity with the out of doors also sparks her activities as a sportswoman. Her wide interests inter-ests include traveling while studying abroad, as well as fishing, hiking, shooting and skiing in our. own area. Dr. Short enjoys the compatibility of man and nature found in 4 mi K DR- CURICXSHO f ...Honored by Mortar ., |
