Boston University College of Practical Arts and Letters - Sivad Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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. ae @ ' ba Mrs. EVELYN SMITH Dormitory Matron Che Dormitory Revivin The dorm has taken on an altogether noticeable air of gaiety and attractiveness this year. The explanations are simple: When upperclassmen returned from the summer’s vacation, they hardly recognized their winter home at 84” with the facades restored to their one-time whiteness. Reason number one. As soon as the “old” girls entered the house, they noticed changes. There was the new, good-looking furniture, not only in the parlor where so many eager and anxious “callers” have awaited the ever-tardy college girl; but also in the music room, where there is now a beautiful electric radio which has been worked to its full capacity. Reason two. The whole house has been completely painted, from the floors to the ceilings and one industrious Senior is so proud of the gleaming paint that she has been known to scrub off the spots. Reason three. But what adds perhaps most of all to the attractiveness of the rooms themselves is the harmony of the furnishings. The idea probably origi- nated last year when one Sophomore, possessed of that attribute familiarly termed ‘“‘good taste”, covered her drab chairs with colored material in orange. The idea was brought back this year by several others, and, as a result, more than a few of the rooms have matching curtains, pillows, and chair coverings of cretonne which run all the way from gay and demure patterns to the futuristic. Reason four. LeLso:

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The air of gaiety and “‘nu-life’’ has been extended in many directions. More attractive and varied menus in the dining-room have been clamoured for since Seniors were Freshmen, and at last results are noticeable. There is an honest-to-goodness hard-working menu committee which is made up of a girl from each floor. Once a week they meet to plan the meals, incul- cating suggestions from the girls. Those who served this year were Thelma Nelson, chairman, Frances Niemeyer, Lorintha Hull, Rose-Marie Schoen, and Julia Downing. And what could have been more lively and colorful than the first annual Dormitory Prom, when the girls sported their latest creations (or their roommates’) in evening gowns, as well as their newest boy friends. On Dec. 9, the Bellevue Hotel was the setting for this happy and most talked of, socially and financially successful, memory of dorm doings this year. The committee in charge of the Prom was Julia Downing, Josephine Lash and Frances Downey. In all this cheerfulness and harmony apparent in dorm life, there is organization and administration. 'The charges d’affaires are the officers and house committee as well. These girls not only plan everything from Christmas parties to proms, but have also a duty not so pleasant—to take up matters of infringement of rules and inflict penalties for such. Mrs. Evelyn Smith, the guardian over all, watches our comings and goings to see that we don’t get lost in the big city; gives us our telephone calls for which we are always waiting; “shushes” us when necessary; and then tucks us all in bed every night, when, like a good Mother, she makes her rounds to see that we don’t stay up after hours. Mys. Smith is human —and we’re glad afterwards when she has seemed a little teo strict. DORMITORY PROM COMMITTEE DOWNING, LASH, DOWNEY [ 190 ]