Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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From the outset, the class of 1938 modestly admits that it has been a record-breaker. When, on Freshman Day, four years ago, it made its debut, a dismal September rain rendered it im- possible to hold the traditional tea on the North Terrace. An unhappy begin- ning, surely, but it was one that set a precedent for the precedent-breaking that was to become the keynote in the career of the class. Beginning with a minor change in tradition, that of being the first fresh- man class to be allowed to hold an off- campus dance, 1938 climaxed its record- breaking in its junior year by turning out a Mortarboard whose accounts ac- tually showed a profit, and a Junior SENIORS Show which needed no red ink with which to write its losses. (There weren ' t any! ) For the former phenomenon Editor Helen Raebeck and Manager Edna Holtzman deserve credit; for the latter, Judy Lenert and her committee. But even this remarkable class was not able to do anything about the Greek Games tradition. That the freshmen lose and the sophomores win has be- come more than a tradition; it is an axiom. How- ever, as freshmen, 1938 allowed the sophomores a none too easily won victory, and a year later emerged triumphant over the class of 1939. As soon as its freshman year, with its too- frequent D ' s was past history, 1938 adopted the usual sophomore attitude, Why take life too seri- ously? You ' ll never get out of it alive. This Audrey Snyder Treasurer 18