Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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In an effort to answer the request of the Junior Class for a review of the activities at Barnard this year, the 1942 Mortarboard staff has endeavored to make this yearbook an informal story in word and picture of 1940-1941. If the narrative form has served to capture the leading events at college in photographs and copy, and if this annual will be cherished by those it describes, its creators will feel that they have achieved their goal. The Editors

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Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D., L H.D

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FRESHMAN DAY From cities, towns, and states all over the world, those girls who were to be closely associated for four years, entered Barnard ' s gates on Freshman Day. They came, strangers, separate, and un- certain, to be welcomed, introduced, and united as an important part of the college which was, as yet, un- known to them. And their coming was a signal for the year ' s activity to begin. As the Class of 1944 assembled on Sep- tember 21st at a luncheon, they were greeted by Dean Gildersleeve and repre- sentatives of the student body, who im- parted to them a feeling of warm friendliness which dispelled any bar- rier of strangeness. Each Freshman had assigned as friend and mentor a Junior sister who might be con- sulted for information not found in