Bryn Mawr College - Bryn Mawr Yearbook (Bryn Mawr, PA)

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preface IT is with great pleasure that we, the editors, present to the class this revised and expurgated edition of our Book. Our hope is that everyone will like it, simply because it is so like 1912. It has been another great opportunity to be natural, like Freshman Show and the circus and the well-trained-mob of he-rascals and she-rascals. And 1912, having had much practise, has no difficulty in throwing off the superficial cold veneer of formality and appearing in her charming star r61e of herself as she really is. So it may or may not be a surprise to those who may read this book, because they were with us though not of us in college, to see us once more as we see ourselves. We hope our naturalness, drawing attention away from our conceit, may induce our former playmates to shed an affectionate tear over our nameplates while they try to remember to whom they belong. I said we were natural here, yes, but there are articles, reserved for a special supplement and allowed only a private and limited circulation, in comparison with which these before you are a triumph of acting. Those suppressed effusions really would interest all our readers and we regret deeply that they are kept from them by the old-time habit of conservatism, too deeply rooted now to be shaken off, in spite of our interest in progressive measures shown in our political campaign. By the way, I am feeling a vast respect for that little incident in our career. It was positively uncanny the way we responded as a man to the proper impulses — even when being told to. Our one great failing was that we were not childish enough to think of balloons. As to the articles, — ask Biffie about Fellowship dinner and Polly about the really interesting side of college life. There were some very exciting little secrets that we didn ' t know before. For gossip and a few details gleaned from the personal experi- ence of an enthusiastic and insatiable student, see a certain article on Nice Feelings by Louise. Then there are others, all of which make up the Class Book as it might have been. Oh! but there was another possibility, another field that we missed, and again just because we were natural. For, in the words of our favorite author, there are many reasons