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

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22 THE BOOK OF THE CLASS OF NINETEEN-T WELVE mmm mnvam Ik Cock Stole THE room was pervaded with a pale, greenish hght resembling the radiance of moon- tr r ? , no u ™ h ]dod of H S ht ( an Artistic person might have called it a rt. 1 S1 ! h ° nd Tj o{ y S from a 1911 Lantern clapped firmly on over the dec nc-hght bulb Underneath sat a figure, swathed in a black gown, mystic! wonder- ful! Upon her knee lay a scroll on which I could distinguish words, strange, broken words

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THE BOOK OF THE CLASS OF NINETEEN-TWELVE 21 €lue0tionnatre 1. What, in common parlance, is meant by Beautiful as distinguished from hand- some and pretty ? Outline briefly the history of the word in your own case. 2. Who in the Class has Changed Most since she came to college? Why? — and if not, Why not? 3. (a) Can you be Friends with a person without Admiring her? (b) How many friends can you have? 4. Why is a Room-mate? 5. Is Good Temper any reason for liking a person, or is it only Good Digestion? 6. Define the Executive Temperament. (N. B. This does not include walk.) 7. Who will be the first in the Class to Get Married? — Florence, Zelda (and of co urse yourself) excepted? Dorothy S. Wolff.

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THE BOOK OF THE CLASS OF NINETEEN-TWELVE 23 with mysterious lines and other symbols scattered through them. Her eyes blazed with the divine fire of inspiration and her lips continually flung forth wild sounds. A Sibyl, you will say, with the leaves from her sacred book upon her lap; or perhaps one of the sisterhood of Cassandra uttering dire portents? Melpomene herself, maybe? Wrong, all wrong! It was Monty composing our Freshman Lantern song. It is difficult to get along with a genius. One must handle it with one ' s newest, whitest 16-button glace gloves. At this present juncture, slipping mine on with haste, I said rever- ently, How did the idea come to you? I was reading one of Milton ' s Latin poems, Monty replied, with a that-explains-it- all air. Oh! yes. I see, and you — er? The meter sort of got into my head and then the music from some old Gregorian Chants I ' d heard mingled in with it and the words simply came of themselves. Don ' t you think it ' s very Greek in spirit? In a dazed way I was trying to puzzle out the formula Miltonic meter + Gregorian Chant „, ,, ,.. - : — : = Greek Spirit, Inspiration so I could only murmur stupidly, Greek? Yes, and then of course it ' s written to the Greek Scale, and she illustrated vocally from the text; it may have to be modified for the class. With a mental picture of 1912, packed sardine-wise in Music Room G, learning the Greek Scale, and 1912 in a straggly line pacing the chilly cloisters to the accompaniment of the Greek Scale, I agreed that it might have to be modified. The next week came a Sturm und Drang Period in the annals of the Class of 1912. Class-meeting succeeded class-meeting and the Lantern Song was the mooted question. The final battle was fought out in Merion Students ' sitting-room. Partisan feeling ran high. The adherents of Mr. Brown, familiarly known as the waltz king, stoutly proclaimed