Rockford College - Recensio / Cupola Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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hair. It is May Day, the Juniors' own day, and as the sun rises, they plant, with solemn rites and ceremonies, the little vine that is to symbolize their love for their Alma Materg ever climbing, ever green. SCENE IV Once more the tennis court: once more our heroines are victorious, and this time there is a beautiful silver cup on which their names are to be inscribed, and so once more the class of 1910 has proved its worth. SCENE Y Class Day has come and the juniors must make their last appearance, so they show how the beautiful little princess was christened and blessed and crowned in the palace of the king, her father, and how she became the Sleep- ing Beauty, and how she was finally awakened by the handsome prince. There is much applause from the spectators scattered on the campus green. And now the fatal moment has arrived and here before them all, their friends and well-wishers, they receive from the out-going class the sign of Seniordom, the cap and gown, which is to grace and dignify them through the coming year. S ACT IY-SCENE I Time-The year IQOQ-IO Behold evolution at work! Once they were Sophomores, bowing low before the Seniors, now they are Seniors and are bowed to in turn. Tonight the bowing takes the form of a theater-party, and the Sophomores are doing their best to make the Seniors forget their cares and troubles and return to the days of their youth. And the Sophomores are successful. SCENE II The Seniors give a supper to the Sophomores in the Senior room. The scalloped potatoes refuse to scallop, and they forget the gravy, and there is no salt in the peas, but the supper is a grand success. The Sophomores over- look any little shortcomings and every one is happy. EPILOGVE Here ends the manuscript. But there is a foreshadowing of things to come. Tree Day and Commencement and then long and happy lives for each and every one of us, with our hearts and minds trained and strengthened by our Alma Mater and by the life that we have spent within her walls. 16

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do honor to their Senior sisters. Now they give to them a hay-ride, and at the end of the ride there are good things to eat provided, and as they eat, the Sophomores sing to their sisters songs of praise and devotion which they have made for the occasion. , 1 , SCENE II Winter has gone. The trees are a-leaf and the lilac-bush is a-bloom, and the hearts of the Seniors are made glad by a breakfast given to them by their sister-class under the oak trees near the river. There is eating and drinking and making merry and, with a smile on the lips and a sob in the throat, they toast each other and their Alma Mater. SCENE IH Up through the silver path of the moonlight, between the black smudges of the river-shores, chug-chugs a blithe little boat, and once more the Seniors and Sophomores are together, only this time it is the Seniors who do honor, and in their kindly hospitality the Sophomores find comfort and pleasure. SCENE IV In the foreground, a wedding party, but the bride-to-be is sad of face and the bridegroom is a churlish knight. In the back-ground, the sloping green of the campus. As the wedding is about to proceed, a shrill whistle sounds, From the distance spring huntsmen in green. Quickly they break up tl1e wedding party, and there before them all the bride is made happy, and mar- ries, not the churlish knight, but her own true love. So the Sophomores present the story of Allan-a-Dale, for it is Class Day, and tomorrow they will awake to find themselves Juniors. ' ACT III-SCENE I Time-The year 1908-9 The gym is yellow, the Juniors in yellow, and the Freshmen wreathed in smiles, for the Juniors have a sense of their responsibilities and are giving the children a dance. And as they dance away the evening, they dance into each other's hearts, new loves and new loyalties, and so the new year is hap- pily begun. SCENE II Straightway the Freshmen show their appreciation of past favors and they give the Juniors a party, a beautiful party at the Brown Teapot. There are cards and roses and music and chatter, and the Freshmen honor themselves in honoring the Juniors. SCENE III It is early, very early in the morning, suddenly there is a sound of voices singing, As we bring our vernal offerings to our Alma Mater dear: and around the corner of the building come girls in white with smilax in their ' 15

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