Brearley School - Brearley Book Yearbook (New York, NY)

Text from Pages 1 - 88 of the 1932 volume:

,lf 13 N . 55 Q 1 T fr: ME' Q Q ,. U 4. 4 1.- 4- , .JJ ,. Av sf- '1' 'Q ,, . 'iii 3 tu f! , .. ,,. . Y' s sm ' QF? -, I, 'L 'wx ' AWA t. ,Q 1-,x x'ffkXS',f If , -' Y .,,xYhu,b. J, , , 1 -L q. .v A ,. .1 mv 4 1 1 T' '! EAST 83rd STREET-TAKEN FROM WELFARE ISLAND THE BREARLEY BOGK . e.5..Z,2 lVc' rf c'a'jc11fc' ffm' lwok fo FANNY H. PHILLIPS BOARD OF EDITORS Editor-in-Claief BETSY WYCKOFF Bufilzesf Manager MARION SOMERVILLE Art Editor MARGARET KIDDER Lilerary Edilorx BERYL DAWSON MARGARET VE EDIER THE CLASS OF 1932 Prerident MARGARIE1' KIDDIZR Vice-Prefidem' RUTH LAMBERT JANET BUCHANAN BEBBA CHALMERS BIERYL DAWSON ELEANOR GOULD AGNES HALSEY HELIEN HANIYORD MICHIELINIE HARIBY MARY KEPPEL Treamrer SYBTL JAY SARAH KEY LOUISE LICHTENSTIEIN PAULINE MANSHIP ANNE MILLER POLLY POTTS FRANCES POOR MARION SOMIERVILLE MARGARET VIEEDER BETSY WYCKOFF E61 FOREWORD E hope that if you read this book through, you will have a pretty clear picture of the class of 1932. This is our first and last chance to show what we are like and what we have made of ourselves since we have been in the school. We have done what we could to take advantage of it. And in addition we have tried to show a little bit of what went on in the school this year, and to have as many drawings and photographs as possible of the school and its inhabitants. If we have carried these plans out successfully, the book should be, at any rate, a record of the non-academic side of life at the Brearley during one winter, told from the students' point of view. These merits are all we dare to claim for it. We are very grateful to Miss Wlmiton, who helped us pre- pare the book for the press, and to our various contributors. The rest of the board wish especially to thank Marion Somerville, our business manager, for the enormous amount of efficient work which she has done to make the book possible. janet Buchanan has helped her very much. And now we have explained the ideas that we had as we put this book together, and made our acknowledgments to the people who have helped. There is nothing more to say except that we hope you will like it. THE EDITORS. l 7 I 74 U 1 fl rfid yuff my Lffwff err-J I JANET BLAIR BUCHANAN S3 VASSAR VILMA FIORA CHALMERS VASSAR 9 Bubba Tiwzx, iiem, fiwzf, fiwzf, iiem! C linrcrcd Vlll Slw mid me I wax I'C'LIlllllffzlIIf a gain today! Entered VI Literary Editor, Year Book VIII Choral Class VIII Dramarics VIII BERYL DAWSON 101 VASSAR ELEANOR JAFFRAY GOULD SMITH 11 nG'll0,b1l.l'U I zfwff 11111116 I gn! 100 011 that cfxam Iintetetl V Class Basketball V, VI, VII, VIII Numetals V, VI, VII Choral Class V, VI, VII, VIII School Basketball VII, VIII Temporary Prefect VII Dtamatics Secretary, Choral Class VIII Usher VIII I HfI.R'.C'ff , Tlwre'.r zmfluing zwy Uffllfl about flnzl. Ls' fhere? lintcrcd A Dramatics I, III, VII Choral Class V, VI, VII Pcrrnaneut Prefecf VII Shield VII Secretary, Relief Board VIII AGNES DURANT HALSEY 12 BRYN MAWR I-I ELEN CONANT HAN FORD SMITH l15I I IUIIZ7 Q Entered A Armhands I, II Dramarics III President IV Choral Class V, VI, VIII Librarian VIII Treasurer, Choral Class VIII Usher VIII Mich Ulr. my dmb .' linrcrcd D Dramatics IV, VIII Choral Class VI Relief Board VII Class Basketball VIII MICHELINE BEATRICE HARDY VASSAR 143 BARNARD SYBIL KANE JAY Us Sibbie l'111 dfll'zlJ'.f .fo cold . Entered Vl Temporary Prefect VII Dramatics VII Class Basketball VIII School Basketball VIII Class Treasurer VIII Usher VIII 4'fKe!7!7 pl fmzfifwy' nf zum A 1 gran! 11 .vjm11.vif1ififV1' O lintcrcd A Lcft D Rcturncd IV 'l'c1npm'111'y Pre fcct VIII DOROTHY MARY KEPPEL RADCLIFFE in lfvl VASSAR SARAH WEBB KEY im H,LC'L'l'jlfU I 11'1111'I .i'c'c'1111j'fl1111gf111111.1'11f1r1111 111.11 .' O linteted A Nuinetals I, II, III, IV, VI, VII Manager, Red Team I, IV, V, VI, VII Athletic Representative I, IV, V Shield II, V, VI, VII Drainatics III I-Iigginson Cup IV Choral Class V, VI Class Basketball V, VI, VII, VIII Secretary, Athletic Association VI School Basketball VI, VII, VIII School Tennis VII President, Athletic Association VIII Teinporary Prefect VIII Head Usher VIII Captain, School Basketball VIII Kidder Kidder or V c'c'dw', IVIi.f.r V101 Bibbw fHopc'f11llyj Q Entered V Dramatics V, VI, VIII Class Basketball VI, VII, VIII Librarian VI Treasurer VII Temporary Prefcct VII Poetry Prize VII Red Team Manager Vlll Art Editor, Year Book VIII President VIII School Baslcetball VIII up I MARGARET SLOAN KIDDER 18 BRYN MAWR BRYN MAWR RUTH LAMBERT f 19 l Poor dear! Entered I Numerals I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII Manager, Wlmite Team I, II, IV, V VI, VII, VIII ' Dramatics I, III, VII Athletic Representative Class Basketball V, VI, VII, VIII Choral Class V, VI Shield V, VII School Tennis VI, VII Vice-President, Athletic Assn. VII School Basketball VII, VIII Vice-President VIII Lo11ie'I llozz' .I'll17L'1'., I Iintcrul VI CQI1o1'aI Class VI, VII, VIII RCIiCf B0z1l'LI VII 'I'Cmpm'1l1'y Prcfcct VII I'7Cl'lN2lIICl1f Prcfcct VIII Muxmgcr, CQI1or11I Class VIII Usher VIII LOUISE BOYD LICHTENSTEIN 5 zo VASSAR PAULINE FRANCES MANS!-IIP PSRYN MAWR I3'I 1.111 .m firwf of .I1f1z'f1'31r Iffflfizfkq Izlmn 11f.1zu'ff. 0 Ifntercd III Dramatics III, VIII Relicf Buzlul VIII Heff-of ANNE LAWRENCE MILLER Entered VI 221 FRANCES WHARTON POOR BRYN MAWR U31 Fmm1y Cwmf In fllllfll, my dm'kli11g.' C limercd V Cjlmi-ul Class V Relief Board Vl Science Prize VI LibI'2ll'iill1 VII Wc'll,, I warm- C Entered V Class Basketball V, VI, VIII Numerals V, VI School Tennis VI President VII School Basketball VIII President, Student Council VIII POLLY BREVOORT POTTS 24 VASSAR MARION-LINN SOMERVILLE VASSAR fm Tlnllfr no 'wry 10 do bIl.l'jIl6'.b'.f., 0 Enterecl IV Class Basketball V, VI, VII Numerals IV, V, VI, VII Dramatics V, VI Choral Class V, VI Usher VIII Temporary Prefect VIII Business Manager, Year Book VIII ffpeggjlii Come, mme, 111 y good 1z'wm111.' 0 Entered IV Dramutics VIII Temporary Prefect VIII Literary Editor, Year Book VIII I MARGARET DeWITT VEEDER 26 BRYN MAWR ELIZABETH PORTER WYCKOFF BRYN MAWR 7 BWI B111 I 1111117 11111110 Kcwlf 111011111 111111. M111 IVZ1111111! linteretl D Dramatics I, VI Librarian V Treasurer VI Poetry Prize VI Class Basketball VII Temporary Prefect VII Student Iltlitnr, Bulletin VIII lltlitnr-in-Chief, Year Bunk VIII Vice--Presitlent, Student Council VIII CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CLASS EIGHT MANNERS AND 'CUSTOMS ENVIRONMENT CHIEF TRAIT oF CHARACTER TITLE vi 'U cd u U CD O u QJ 14 -4 -1 P I-I OJ E O UD CRO .E B- o I va I-I 0 ID an D L-I 'U 9:2 N I va um U C -1 5 N-4 U If I-3 uchanan ng Dante 1 'U vs cu D4 5'-. -4 N L-l I'-1 PN I-I cd agin IT1 I ICITIPCIHIHCIII .E A.: cd I-I almers . 'U s-I Id O GQ .za o o CQ I-4 cu GJ IP-4 ..: ti 3 '50 9. 'U N 2 D-4 .-1 74 N I-1 E '2 9. CI DN Y o 'U 5 QJ VD Q4 Il... SO HW B Ch D G H Z' 'U ID -C IU gi, 5 23 '53 9 5 C1 ' O ' C W9 -- I' -A :I 2 .2 'E' 'F' 9 .2 L-I 3 Q0 5.0 CI Q U -C: C, Q0 -C I-I-I E 'E 30 G 20 20 -2' Q- 'E 23 'S' 46 O- E I-I cu cd as Iii 53 :E B B 2 3 . :E 'S U I 'O E '5 -I V1 P Cd C: S 5 I-H o .E O Vw 5 Iv S -U -S ,Q -5 O N U Q. ft! 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Chalmers, Kidder, Dawson, Somerville 1 . ,T ,T Hanford 10, Chalmers 5, Gould 2, Jay l Nicvxi Cfolbar ,... Buchanan 5, Potts, Somerville 4, jay, Dawson, Poor, Hardy l Lmzgcfrt Talker ......,...,,..,.. T Su'eefeTrI Di.n'po.ririw1 .... T T N 0iTric'.s'! ......,,.,,,., Bigger! L11m'lJeo1z.r ,... TT T HzIl'l!C.1if 1Vw'ker ....... T Lnziefl ..,....,...... Moy! Ladylike M11Ts't flbjfllf Mflllfl'll T T Mm! Tofcwllll T T Mori Ifllulennzl ,.., TT T Jlrul Selllilllwlml ,T Wiflieft T T Kidder 6, Bigger! Blujeak TT TT TTTTTTT ,TTT G ould 11, Dawson 5, Manship l . T Buchanan 7, Potts 4, Keppel, Veeder 2, jay, Dawson, Chalmers 1 Lambert 15, Gould 2 Halsey 14, Lambert 2, Somerville, Chalmers l TT Manship 6, Keppel, Wyckoff 3, Dawson 2, Halsey, Somerville, Lichtenstein, Key l Chalmers 10, Poor 6, Veeder, Halsey l TTT,TTVeeder 5, Chalmers, jay 4, Wyckoff 2, Lichtenstein, Buchanan, Key 1 T Poor 8, Miller 3, Chalmers, Buchanan, Manship, Kidder 1 T TT Dawson 5, Wyckoff 4, Lichtenstein, Veeder 2, Key, Hanford, Potts I TT Chalmers 7, Key 4, Manship 3, Lambert 2, Lichtenstein, Hanford 1 T .T Chalmers 5, Halsey 3, Wyckoff, Lambert. Dawson 2, Keppel, Poor, Gould 1 Dawson 5, Hanford 4, Veeder 2, Lambert I T T Manship 6, Halsey, Gould 5, Poor 1 l 33 l M 'f L , o e Q If A Q .WW 5' Q 6 E H Q 5 WZ? E H Hi E W Efj STUDENT GOVERNMENT Last year student government was started as an experiment, and this year the work has been continued, so that now it is firmly established. The lower and upper school councils have been separated, each meeting once a week. On the first Monday of every month there is a combined meeting in which the problems of the whole school are discussed. There are also two courts, made up of the permanent prefects of each part of the school. These courts assign punishments to offenders. We have dealt with the questions of assemblies, elevators, and the regula- tion of study hours. The lower school, besides, has dealt with many minor difficulties, mostly concerning the mischievous pranks of the younger children. One of the most important decisions has been the establishment of total quiet in assemblies. We hope that the council will eventually become better organized and more efficient. P. PoTrs, VIII. J. RUSSELL, IV.' Permanezzl Prefer!! VIII POLLY POTTS,PI'6Jid6l1I MARGARET KIDDER LOUISE LICHTENSTEIN RUTH LAMBERT BETSY WYCKOFF VII ELIZABETH WASHBURN PENELOPE HUNTER CHARLOTTE KAUFMAN VI ALISON BRUERE V LYIJIA DAVIS IV JANET RUSSELL 34 CAROLYN DE CHADENEDES MARY MCCAMPBELL CAMILLA RIGGS ADIELAIDIZ WELD KATHERINE WELD ELEANOR YOUNG BARRIE SMITH PAULINB WASHBURN MARGOT DETHIER PRUDENCE PECK QM yearj MARY T ALMADGI2 QM yearj PERMANENT PREFECTSEUPPER SCHOOL PERMANENT PREFECTS--LOWER SCHOOL I S51 THE RELIEF BOARD Chuirmam ...,,. ..,A..A,..,......,.AA....,.,..,..A...............4A........... M iss SEDGWICK Secretary .4,.,.. ...A..,... A GNES HALSEY, VIII Treamrer ,..,,.,.A. A.,.I,........I...,.,.......... ....,..,. R 0 SALIE CI-IRISTII3, VII Class Memberx Pauline Manship VIII Carolyn de Chadenedes IV Mary Dewart VII Eleanor Young III Nancy Eggleston VI Margot Dethier II joy Hume VI Agnes Martin I year, Elise Merrill V Mary Sprague I yearj Last summer the Relief Board again sent two children to the country for vacations, and fresh flowers arrived at our pet Brearley ward almost every day from Brearley gardens. At Hallowe'en, Thanksgiving and Easter, we sent candies and favors to the Day Camp Boat at Bellevue for its festivities. At Christmas we made and filled candy stockings and managed to give each child on the Day Boat a stocking, a book, a toy, and a useful present. The books and toys were presented by the Primary classes and the useful presents such as gloves, stockings, and underwear, were bought by Miss Mills with a committee of Brearleyites. In the fall, we felt that, with the widespread unemployment and consequent misery in New York, it would be best to spend immediately what money we had in the bank. Miss Mills ingeniously portioned out the amount that each class was to control. We had two plans, to give money to the C.O.S. for a scholarship for some child whose parents would ordinarily provide its training, or to give it to buy milk and braces for crippled children. Each class voted its money for the cause it considered most worthy. In this way we have assisted in the training of one child and in increasing the sadly meager comforts of several others. We welcome Miss Sedgwick as our new chief. She represents the charitable work of the alumnae as well as the Relief Board. After many years of conscientious leadership of the Relief Board, a task which takes not a little time and energy, Miss Mills has found it necessary to give up this position and retire to a somewhat less strenuous one, as yet nameless, but one very like that of guardian angel. To mix the metaphors, she is now the dragon protecting our bank-roll from ourselves as well as others. AGNES HALSEY. I 56 I ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Prerident ............. .I.......,,....,..,....... S ARAH KEY VIII Vice-Pmridenl .,..I.., ...,,, . CHARLOTTE KAUFMANN VII Treamrer ......... ...,.....4.... ,... ......,.....I.... N A N CY ZINSSER VI Clary M enlberx Priscilla Potts V Muriel Gerli III Barbara Truesdell IV Harriet Coverdale II Lynne Ely I BASKETBALL This year the four upper school classes played again with the corresponding classes of Miss Chapin's School. Two of the games were played at Miss Chapin's and two at the Brearley. The scores were: Brearley V -324 Chapin IX --23 Brearley VII -21g Chapin XI --16 Brearley VI -335 Chapin X --30 Brearley VIII-235 Chapin XII-21 The school team played the Nightingale-Bamford school at the Brearley on March 4. The score was 73-4 in favor of the Brearley. All the substitutes were put in during the game. Foruwrdx I..... ...,... Key QCapt.j Gould Centerr .,....4 ..r.... Smith G. Ridder Guardr c.......l. .,..... L ambert M. Kidder Subriitzllei' .i,....,. .. ,, ...., Jay, Potts, Washburn l37I FIELD DAY 1931 The Whites won at Field Day with a score of 56-30, which made the score for the year 92M-53M in their favor. Both Upper and Lower School high jump records were broken. Elsie Lawson IV, jumped 4 ft. 6 in., and Oramella Smith VI, 4 ft. 10 in. The Higginson Cup was won by Elsie Lawson IV, and the Alumnae Cup by Margaret Preston VIII. TENNIS 1931 The Brearley played tennis against Miss Chapin's again last spring, and won, for the first time in years, by a score of 5-2. There were five matches, three singles and two doubles. Doubler Singler Riley VIII Etherington VI Kaufman VI Hatch VII fCapt.j Preston VIII Lambert VII Key VII FENC 1 NG There are many beginners in the fencing class this year, which makes us hope for some experts in the future. A match has been arranged with the Nightingale-Bamford School. The team for this will be: Lawson O. Smith Moore Stiles fCapt.j Substitutes Davis L. Noyes E391 CHORAL CLASS OFFICERS Manager LOUISE BOYD LICHTENSTEIN Secretary Trea.rurer ELEANOR Gourn HELEN HANFORD Libmriau.r C lair Offrefzr MARY ESTHIER STILWELL RUTH MAGOR VH PEGGY VANDER VEER NANCY ZINSSER V1 JANE WITHERSPOON V After the ambitious and successful production last year of Mozart's Magic Flute, this was supposed to be Choral Class' year of rest, but it has turned out handsomely! We are giving Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, which the composer originally wrote for a girls' school. Dido is being sung by Marilee Becker and Aeneas by Nancy Zinsser. The production, although small and not so elaborate as the .Magic Flute, promises to equal it in charm. Interest in our Christmas celebration increases as time goes on. This year for the lirst time the A's and Sub-A's assisted us. With the aid of some twenty noble fathers, Choral Class was able to sing a Bach Chorale in its original parts. Twelve Days of Christmas and Down in Yon Forest were sung by Choral Class alone. It is with regret that I give up my heavy duties as manager of Choral Class. I only hope that my successor will enjoy as much as I did, trying to find Miss Elly. She was usually preparing for Assembly, conferring with Miss Carey, teaching the Primaries or Choral V, or at home for lunch. No doubt, teaching music is merry sport! LOUISE LICHTENSTEIN. U91 F. Poon SPECIAL ART CLASSES The Friday afternoon art class under the direction of Mr. Lahey has continued this year as usual. A new tempera has been introduced to replace watercolor, and the drawing may be done in charcoal, pencil, or crayon. Usually a member of the class poses, and occasionally there is a professional model, the rest of the time the subjects are drawn from the memory and imagination. In drawing, an attempt is made to give an impression rather than a photographic likeness of the model. An etching class, also under the direction of Mr. Lahey, has been started this year. There is an exhibition of the etchings done by this class on the seventh floor. Among the best of these are Patricia Greenman's portrait of her sister, Barbara Hall's picture of the park, and Henrietta Callaway's Arizona desert scene. i401 DRAMATICS The first play this year was The Tumbler of Our Lady, which was drama- tized by Miss Du Bois from Isabel Butler's translation. It was directed by Miss Du Bois, Miss Elsmith and Mrs. Wing. Almost all of Class IV was in it. Carolyn de Chadenedes gave an excellent performance. CAST Foreword .,..,g.. ..,........ R osanne Wigham Prologue ........ .,..,............. J udy Markham Tumbler ...... ,,....... C arolyn de Chadenedes Virgin ..... ........,..,..... M ary Sprague Angels ........ ,,...... S Barbara Bflms 2 Barbara Field Abbot ......... ......,... D iana Gerli Miss Cutler, our new dramatics coach, has produced two plays so far this year. The Birthday of the Infanta, a dramatization of Oscar Wilde's story, was given by Class VI. It was an ambitious choice, and not perhaps entirely success- fully carried out. This, however, is very carping criticism since almost everyone in the play gave performances well above the usual school level. The Infanta and the Dwarf were especially good. The Infanta ........,. The Dwarf . Chamberlain ........ Duchess ......... Don Pedro ....... CAST l41l .,Marilee Becker .....,.,Flora Blanc Mary Washburn ......,,....,Alice Otis . ...... Dorothy Moore Carlos ......... .............,.,,.. J ane Perry Pages ,......,... S Lucretia Osborne Uoy Hume Court Lady ....,.... gg:'Q.lQi.z.Mary Carter Bottomley In our opinion the most successful production of the year was Class II s Peter Pan. Even the usually horrible moment when Peter appeals to the audi ence to believe in fairies passed without a snicker. Wendy was very convincing and all the lost boys were delightful in their pajamas. The pirates were properly terrible and Nana was most amusing. CAST Peter Pan ..4,t... .,,..,,..4.... Wendy .,.,.., L Michael ...,...,... john .......,..........s. Mrs. Darling .,....,.. Mr. Darling ...,.., Nana .......,....,., Liza ....,....,......, First Twin .......... Second Twin ...,s,.,,.. Slightly ,......,..., Curly .....,...... Noodler ..,.,..,., Toodles ,.s....,.r. Nibs t.........,..,.,.r.. Captain Hook ...,,.s Starkey .4.,...s..s.,.,, Smee .,.,s,... Cecco .s..... Mullins ........ jukes ......,. s....4......Barrie Smith ,,...,.s..Margot Dethier Althea Loughran 4.........,Mary Halsey Anne Miner .,s..,..s......,.Mary Paige Betty Ann O'Connor ............Jeanne Poillon Evelyn Lovett Mary Callaway .......,,...Anne Wisner ...Barbara Ziegler .,..,...,Sophie Mason ,...4,4.,.....jane Bedford .,. .Madeleine Taylor ....s,....I.ouise Farrell Marion Cowles s..Martha Wellington .....s....,....jane Delano .,.....s.Pauline Washburn .......,,.Daphne Nelson N21 THE VllI'S HILARIA On Friday, March 11, the VIII's gave their Hilaria and those who came to it found that it was a very amusing and skillfully produced show. After several false starts, which rather embarrassed Ruth Lambert, but served to get the audience in a humorous frame of mind, Ruth succeeded in getting a small projector to work, and showed two reels of moving pictures which she had taken of the inmates of the Brearley. Everyone admitted that this was a genuine brain-wave on the part of the VIII's and it has been suggested that every class hereafter should do the same, and thus leave behind them some record of their days at the Brearley, over which they can chuckle when they return to class reunions. Visualize Sarah Key saying to her daughter, See now, there's Mother playing basketball. Mother wants you to grow up and be a basketball player just as she was way back in 1952. After this Helen Hanford appeared before the curtain, dressed at la Gay Nineties with bustle and parasol complete, and gave a very flowery rendering of After the Ball, which brought many laughs. We glanced at the program and saw Selected short subjects by our local artists. Helen was evidently one of their local artists. Then the curtain rose on the first act of Under the Gaslightsf' This act and the succeeding ones kept us laughing incessantly. Some of this laughter was caused more by the mistakes made, than by the acting. When the curtain snapped wide open, instead of closing, at the end of a thrilling act, and when the villian's enormous black moustache became slightly lop-sided, it was uproarious. Peanuts were thoughtfully supplied to throw at the villains, and Miss Carey joined in the fun and took several well-aimed shots at the most menacing villain that we have seen in a long time. Perhaps it was the moustache, which concealed most of what is normally Margaret Kidder. Whatever it was, the result was rather terrifying. Eleanor Gould was the proud, blushing heroine. We were almost as much impressed by her various costumes as by her acting, which was very skillful. Ruth Lambert, Frances Poor, Margaret Veeder and Pauline Manship also gave clever and amusing performances. The rest of the cast did their best and did it well, and succeeded in making it a very commendable show. Between the second and third acts, Bebba Chalmers entertained us with some Italian songs which came as a pleasant surprise to those of us who did not know that she had such a charming voice. N31 The scenery, created at the hands of Manship and Hardy, was very appro- priate and cleverly made. Afterwards there were refreshments and dancing, which successfully con- cluded a very entertaining evening. RUTH MAGOR, VH. THE VII'S HILARIA 1 ' The fact that the invitation did not include Will Hays gave rise to some apprehension, we arrived in a highly critical mood but found nothing to censure, and everything to praise. . After the opening chorus, Lucky Seven, which was led by Peggy Vander Veer, Mary Esther Stilwell, as mistress of ceremonies, announced that they would exhibit a day's performances at a broadcasting station. At the unhappy hour of seven o'clock, Penelope Hunter felt constrained to seek Health to the music of Barbara Hall and the instructions of Elizabeth Washburn. Margaret Robinson gave a few monologues which revealed her as a local Ruth Draper. The audience found especially amusing the one which showed the plight of a woman in a portrait gallery, torn between the pictures and her anxiety for her Philistine son. Then Barbara Sims, Peggy Vander Veer and Ruth Magor out- Boswelled the famous sisters when they sang Bye Bye Blues. The real stars of this Hilaria were two pianos on which Ruth Magor, Mary Esther Stilwell, Barbara Hall, and Nancy Etherington played their expert jazz. Ruth Magor and Nancy Etherington number among their other accomplish- ments that of composing. They played arrangements of some of their own songs. Many of our illusions about radio plays were shattered by Penelope Hunter, Gretchen Ridder, Barbara Sims and Alice King, who were more con- cerned with certain smaller carnivora than with the Romance of Angelica. Whoever wrote the speech on our feathered friends was satirist of no mean powers, and Mary Dewart's rendering of it was enough to scare anyone away from the radio. Class VII then preceded us around the corner and brought us television numbers of Margaret Robinson, and Nancy Etherington tap dancing. As a final number, Nancy Etherington, Barbara Hall, Mary Esther Stilwell, Ruth Magor, Caroline Sawyer, and Margaret Robinson formed an orchestra dressed in black and white costumes. This was very impressive. Their songs were all the popular tunes of the last summer. Nancy Etherington played a piano and saxophone at practically the same time. This was the most impressive f ll. O a BERYL DAWSON MARGARET VEEDER i441 W XX 13 TRANSLATIONS Qlirom lbe Greek of Meleagerj Everywhere on earth a tear for you will I shed Heliodora, yea, sadly wept tears shall pour into Hades. Beside your tomb shall How a stream of mourning after the dead. For sadly, ah, sadly, do I, Meleager, lament my dear Who walks among the shades, on graceless Acheron's shore. Alas, alas for my child! Where is she? She is not here. Hades has seized her, has seized her. The flower is laid in the dust. O earth, O nurse of mankind, O mother, embrace most gently The maiden bewept of all men who is given into your trust. BETSY WYCKOFF flirom lhe Greek of Czllli.ffl'dlll.fD I shall carry today my myrtle-covered sword Like the two young men who killed the usurping lord And made the Athenians equal men and free. O dearest Harmodius, men say that you have not died, But dwell in the blessed isles of the sea Witli swift Achilles and Diomed standing at your side. I shall carry today my myrtle-covered sword Like the two young men who killed Hipparchus, the lord, At the time of the feast the Athenian people decree. Your fame forever and ever upon our earth shall abide O two young men who killed the usurping lord And made the Athenians equal men and free. BETSY WYCKOFF i 46 I THE DEATH OF LESBlA'S SPARROW flirom the Latin of Catullurj O Venus and O Cupid, mourn Where'er you be! And everyone Who claims to be of mortal born, All nature under the bright sun. The sparrow of my lady dear Has died. It was her sole delight. She nevermore his song shall hear Though this was dearer than her sight. As honey sweet this sparrow was, And ne'er ignored its mistress, for She was a mother to him, as Each day she loved him all the more. RUTH LAMBERT SON N ET Uirom the French of Louise Labij While that my eyes with tears unshed are wet, And I regret past happiness with you, O just as long as, sobbing, sighing, too, Both quieted, my voice can be heard yet, And just as long as, guided by my hand, The gentle lute about your graces sings' And just as long as to my soul it brings Contentment, to desire, to understand Nothing save you, I shall not wish to die. But when I feel my weeping eyes are dry, My voice is hushed, my hand is powerless, And all my soul, in this our mortal stay, Can show no longer any tenderness, Then may death darken my serenest day. ! BERYL DAWSON l 471 SOME ONE OLDER Yes, said Cousin Alice. We all miss you so much since you moved into the city. Did you know, Maria, the McGills have let Lena go, after all these years? It seems that she just couldn't remember her place, and then she was so old and getting very disagreeable. Of course it was a shame but- Mother! jane almost pounced into the room, not even noticing Cousin Alice. Mother, Winnie telephoned. She wants me to come uptown for lunch. Some of the other girls are going to be there, and I want to go. But, Mother, Eileen said that she was coming over this afternoon, so will you just tell her I had to go. Nicely, you know. I don't think she'll mind too much. Mother was quite equal to the situation. Sit down a minute, jane, she said very calmly. Heres cousin Alice. You haven't seen her for a very long time. Oh, how are you, Cousin Alice? Mother, you will tell Eileen nicely, won't you ? That's little Eileen Owen, explained mother to Cousin Alice. She's so fond of jane. Of course jane is older, but-well, the child doesn't have many pleasures and jane is .vo sympathetic. just now when she's studying hard for college, though, it's quite a drag on her time. Yes, of course, murmured Cousin Alice, but, speaking of colleges, Christina Merton is doin ver well at Smith. She's a 'unior now and 'ust as Y J popular as she can be! On all sorts of committees and things. Wl1y, isn't that nice! Mother sounded really glad. I did like Mr. and Mrs. Merton. They were very English, but so nice. I'll never forget how Mrs. Merton did all her own work in that big house with those two children. And jane was so found of Christina. Of course, Christina was older but-well, Jane was always so advanced for her age. Christina was a very pretty child, too. Do you remember her, jane ? Yes, said jane, and turned away. At the mention of Christina Merton something deep inside her cried out and eager memories came crowding on top of one another until her mind was nothing but a whirling mass of shapes and H81 sensations, all slipping away from her. Then pictures began to form. The first to come was their old house, building itself out of the far corners of her mind, with its brown walls and corners and the dirty-white pillars of the porch. There was the bumpy gray sidewalk and the big linden tree and the grass, scrubby in places where they had skipped rope, and there was-she could have jumped for joy to see it-yes, there was Henny's bicycle left lying on the front lawn with its wheel in the air and the handlebars stuck savagely into the turf. Christina Merton, then, was not really a pretty child, as Mother had said. It was something else. She was tall with shiny, straight, black-brown hair and red cheeks. Her nose curved in a way that was all its own and she talked in a way that jane loved to hear. Her voice was different,-clear, smooth and quick at the same time. She was ahead of jane at school and was leader in almost every thing she did. jane's mother knew Mrs. Merton, and Jane went to Christina's house and Christina to jane's. Wlien they were alone, they played dolls and ghosts and dressed up and had wonderful times. But when one of Christina's friends was there, it would all be different. Jane couldn't tell why. Mary Crawly was the worst. She used to tease jane and then Christina would, too. That was the worst of all. Christina was never on her side when Mary was around. They would stand together and giggle and have secrets, and when jane screamed at them, they only laughed. Now the picture of the house came back. This time there were some chil- dren over by the privet hedge. They were tearing and peeling long supple strips of it to play circus with. There were herself and Henny and the Cartwright children. Now a group of three little girls, three older little girls, came walking along the grey sidewalk under the trees. Their feet clattered on the pavement and their voices on the air. There were Christina and Mary Crawly and Viccy Hewett. Mary's arm was around Christina's neck and their laughter seemed to prick and jab with pointed tongues at the small girl by the privet hedge. She stared at them but Christina did not even say hello. Then jane found herself looking at the world through a fierce cloud of hate for Mary Crawly. Little waves of hate broke over her and left her gasping. She took a long, writhing privet shoot in her hand, and, followed by the Cartwright children, marched to the attack. The enemy saw the coming danger but did not condescend to realize it. They walked with deliberate slowness, their arms about each other's necks. Every now and then they looked back over their shoulders and sent out whoops of laughter at the sight of jane, pudgy, red-faced, her eyes glazed with hate. They should have seen the privet-whip concealed carelessly l49Il against her left leg. At that laughter, the wave of hate in her reared itself to a tremendous height, towering above all else in her mind. Quickly she raised the whip and cut with all her force across Mary Crawly's neck and something in her laughed and shrieked to see the red weal leap into place. Grim and exult- ing, she waited for them to turn and destroy her, but to her surprise and almost disappointment they did nothing of the sort. Mary gave a little squeal and clapped her hands to her neck. Christina and Viccy put their arms around her. Poor Mary, it'll be all right in a minute -- It must hurt terribly, such a mean thing to do! Is it better now ? Oh, such a big red mark! How horrid to hit somebody from behind! jane stood and watched and the wave retreated 'leaving the shores bare and desolate. Never in her life had she felt so miserable but she must do some- thing to justify herself. Now maybe you won't tease me at Christina's, she muttered. Christina turned her head and looked, and Jane's flesh crawled. No, indeed, she won't! Christina cried. And do you know why? Wlmy, because you aren't ever coming to my house any more, jane Curtis, never again! You're a mean nasty girl. Mary never did anything to you! I'm sorry I ever met you! Poor Mary! Is it better now? Come on to my house and mother'll put some medicine on it. jane watched them go. It was all wrong, horribly wrong. She wanted to cry out in desperation, Christina, Christina, wait and let me tell you about it! She did do things to me, she did, she did, much worse than hitting. Oh, wait, Christina, you don't understand! Jane walked back to the hedge. No use playing now. No, I don't want to, she told the eldest Cartwright boy. He looked at her admiringly. Gee, you certainly slashed her one, hc said. That ought to show her! Yes, she answered, but underneath surged a cold Hood of black misery, a leaden feeling of doubt. Yes, said Cousin Alice's voice, It's terrible the things that happen nowadays. Right in one's own town. Did you heat about the King's furnace man? E501 jane was surprised to find herself trembling all over as though something exciting had happened. Funnyg she hadn't seen Christina for years and didn't want to. Her own friends were probably much more interesting. But Christina certainly used to be able to make her feel like someone that shouldn't have been born! And if she had condescended to play with jane every day! Why, jane would have been in the seventh heaven. Horrible, the power you give to people by admiring them! And oh, how infinitely better for a girl to find friends her own age, that fitted her, like water seeking its own level. Jane, broke in Mother's voice, Cousin Alice is going uptown on the bus. Maybe you could go along with her as far as Eightieth Street. Heavens! It was quarter of one. Mother, jane cried, look how late it is! I'll have to take the subway and run. So sorry, Cousin Alice. It was awfully nice seeing you. Give my love to Peggy. And Mother, be sure to tell Eileen nicely. Put in something about poor Winnie left alone and I had to go. You know, nicely. MARGARET KIDDER l 51 J PROVENCE WINE Facing the sapphire sea's peaceful expanse, There rolls a fertile valley, warm, serene, Encased in rocky peaks where nature plants The prickly scrub and tall dark evergreen. Here, in the vineyards, autumn paints a spot Of gold and orange on her scarlet suit, And sweetens purple grapes, but touches not The silver olives laden with black fruit. A sip of muscatel carried my mind Back to the tfendmzge in this sunny plain. Outdoors, around the tables where they dined, The bright-clothed pickers sang a gay refrain. The taste faded away. I heard winds beat And saw snow melting in the grimy street. PAULINE MANSHIP THE BOY The boy is in an offensive position, fighting the good fight against the biased feminine opinion that surrounds him. In the matter of dress his sisters must confess themselves vanquished, for their great chic and discrimination have not prevailed against his healthy male impulses. Somewhere he has re- ceived the impression that it is sissified to get a hair-cut, this impression, coupled with a natural dread of a barber's shears, results in his head's looking like a study of Neolithic man. His eyes are green fthis has for eleven years caused consternation among the Dawsonsj, and his teeth are still coming out and growing in again, a little ragged at the edges. He infinitely prefers an awful pair of corduroy knickers to more respectable clothes, indeed he will fight tooth and nail if you suggest that he wear a necktie. Wlien he is greatly vexed with his sisters, he will unbuckle his knickers at the knee, because he considers this wounding to their sensibilities. His room is filled with as odd an assortment as his pockets: Lithuanian daggers, a bloodstained sword from the Civil War, several pictures of Lilyan Tashman, and some of his own studies of pumas, jaguars, and tigers adorn the walls. One large table near the window displays several bowls of sea life- tropical fish and gupies look through their walls at red ram's-horn snails and l52l salamanders. Most of the center of the room is occupied by another table, hold- ing Chemical Sets No. 15 and 20. He is very proud of his scientific ability. When he gets Chemical Set No. 35, he will have a laboratory comparable to that of the Rockefeller Institute. At the age of seven he first heard of Tarzan, who influenced him greatly. I believe there was a time about a year ago when he went about clad in a tiger- skin, with the tiger's tail tied like a fillet about his head. He was restrained with great difliculty from going abroad in this attire. Every day at luncheon his mother is properly horrified by sanguinary ac- counts of spit-ball battles at school. He generally brings home a small English boy who has won his admiration because he can construct an electric light that can be put in a fish bowl without exploding. With this contrivance the Boy examines the inner workings of a tropical f1sh's system more closely. He is at the embarrassing age when he thinks it feminine to be polite. His most frequent reply to a dulcet good-bye is go jump in a lake or sit on a tack, or some other such admonition. Whenever there is a male guest in the house, the Boy thinks he is being perfectly charming if he asks him to wrestle. Of course, the guest, not to be outdone in virility by a mere eleven-year-old, wrestles. Laziness is his greatest vice, by moderately exercising his persuasive powers he can make anyone do anything for him. Last spring he was desirous of a flshpool in back of the house. He looked appealingly at his sister and in Eve minutes she was helping him mix cement. Any boy at this age considers swearing the mark of manhood. The Boy is trying to impress his family with his right to do as his father does. On suitable occasions he utters a very sheepish Hell, and then looks apprehensively at his mother. When every one laughs, he does not know whether to be relieved or awfully angry. He has had any number of dogs but the one he liked best was nothing more than a mutt, a combination of police-dog and collie. He found him in the street and called him, despite the protestations of his more elegant sisters, Plucky. When Plucky died, the Boy became uncontrollable and broke a butcher's window. He is saving his money now so that when he is twenty, he and his mother may go to live in the heart of Africa. If he relents toward his sisters, they will be allowed to visit him. BERYL DAWSON. U31 JEANNE D'ARC Armour of silver, and a milk-white horse They gave you, and you found a holy sword. Those are a saint's own trappings, and, of course You were a faithful servant of the Lord. But a black charger had become you best, And golden mail that dazzled all men's eyes, And a great sword that had not taken rest And spent a century hidden from the skies. Queens dress in white and silver, and a king Must have a sword with relics in the hilt. You needed no saint's prayers for pardoning, No virgin robes to show you free from guilt, Though every man, through some obscure device, Considers fire wickeder than ice. BETSY WYCKOITF. DIFFERENCE FROM ME IS THE MEASURE OF ABSURDITYH ' Our sense of humor, on which we pride ourselves so much, is merely our ability to appreciate absurdity. A situation in which the acting characters are thrown out of their habitual places in their routine of life, either by loss of dignity, or by being put in some incongruous position, seems ridiculous and therefore amusing to us. Very few of us, however, are able to laugh when we ourselves are the victims of the joke. To be amused by the plight of some one else, we must feel, at the time, a sense of security from a similar plight. I think it funny, when, walking along the street, more or less inconspicuously dressed, I see an old lady arrayed in all the finery of fifty years ago. Were I dressed likewise, however, I should understand the old lady's annoyance at being made fun of, and should pity her instead of joining in the laughter. I indulge my taste for violent color in orange and brown sweaters, red dresses and green hats. I think Agnes Halsey is thoroughly ridiculous to indulge hers in white linen dresses with red embroidery. I should never wear them. Therefore, in my opinion, they are not worthy of being worn. My hair is straight. I think any woman who will sit for four hours with every hair on her head held up so tightly that she can not even move her eyebrows, and allow E543 herself to be subjected to enough heat to cook a meal, then pay the price of a nice dress for the sake of having a permanent wave, is the limit of absurdity and a living proof of feminine stupidity. Any one who does something I do not do, wears something I do not wear, says something I do not say, or reads something I do not enjoy reading is, to me, an idiot. Einstein says that, as everything is relative to something, we must choose our standard. I have chosen myself. Any one who differs from me is wrong and any one who is wrong is absurd. PAULINE MANSIIIP. PROUD WATERS Green, high-crested, the waves race into the shore And break themselves, and gather up their pieces, And rush away, and returning again as before They shatter again into pieces. They are clear as ice, and then they break the clea rness And tear apart in a bubbling milky foam. But fand this is what makes the wild waves' queernessj They rise again from the foam. fTo ruin themselves they reassemble themselves. They are fierce, they are wild, they are foolish, say what you will. They exult in their strength when they pound on the rocks' rough shelves Which they cannot do when they take good care of themselves, Remaining clear, and staying quiet and still.j It is not a good life to be an upheaving wave That crashes forever against a stony shore, And I know that no power on earth is able to save The waves that break on the shore. But I do not like this slipping about the sea, I have broken before and I wish to break again, With the rest of the ocean half jealous, half laughing at me As I rush at the rocks again. BETSY WYCKOFF, Poetry Prize 1930. E553 TWO SON N ETS I Spring walks along the streets unheralded, Only across the hardness of a wall, Where lately winter stiffened and lay dead, The thin pale Hakes of yellow sunlight fall. No flourishings of petals on the air Or smells of wakened earth to tell her way, Without a single fiower for her hair Spring walks along the city streets today. Now where two rows of houses turn and meet, The sky is clean and blue, and all around Faces lean from the windows. People's feet Go down the pavement with a happier sound And clothes hung out upon the roofs to dry Are bright and fluttering blossoms on the sky. II The flattened rain gleams from the streets tonight, It is a hesitant and quiet thing, Stepping with footsteps lingering and light, The thin and sorrowful raining of the spring Across the lamp-light, fine and delicate As any veil of gossamer and lace, The split drops shimmer, warm and intimate Its dripping fingers trail across your face. The night rain is a friend to walls and stone And hisses on the pavement gratefully, Whispering in a pattering monotone Of little waters running to the sea And fresh-turned earth, and in its wetness lies A sense of dripping fields and open skies. MARGARET Kmnrn Poeiry Prize 1931 I56l' N400 XN W S0 CPS VPXXBC9 SPENSERIAN STANZAS A-downe the river banke the boates ' chugge, Y-passing ever uppe and downe they go, The loathlie garbage barge and swinking tugge, Some moving swiftlie, others e'en more slow, And al the while the river stronge doth flow. Oftimes the fogge outside the wall is rent By steamer looming bigge, anon a low And lonlie cry up-from its funnelles sent Shrieks loudlie through the fogge its wilde and sad lament. Then cometh eek a straunge and cleadlie sound As dying rattle from a dragon's maw That maddened sinks from many a bloudie wound, Y-covered with his blacke and stinking gore. The faireste youths that sleepe their bookes o'er Rise uppe y-white of face and deadlie pale. What might this mean, this clamour which before E'en do the very lords and sages quaile, That rattleth al about like deadlie storm of haile? And when bright Phoebus settleth in the west, And murkie blacknesse cloudeth every streete, Forth from the walls each gorged and haggarcl guest Doth go, with mental nourishmente replete, And each into the dimnesse doth retreate, And fadeth full right willingly away, But still the river murmureth at the feete Of those blacke walls and danke, as if to say, E'en let the prisoners free. Tomorrow comes another day. WWC realize that the spelling of this word is Chaucerian. NFO: the benefit of Miss Carey and the very young, the deadlie sound is the riveting which went on across the way in 1930. l58l ENGLISH COMPOSITION A Critical A pprecialion of The Lady In The Lake As I have not lately read The Lady In The Lake, I shall or will find it terribly difficult to write a critical appreciation of this poem. But, on the other hand, nevertheless, a critical appreciation is awfully difficult to write anyway and so maybe mine will not be so much worse than somebody else. The Lady In The Lake is a good poem. It is a good poem because Scott, who wrote it, is a good writer and Scott is a good writer because he is in the Oxford Book of English Verse which is a good book. Having given my opinion of Scott and his poetry I shall or will go on to specifically discussing The Lady In The Lake. The background of The Lady In The Lake is very good. It is an awfully good background. If I were to see that background I should or would know it among a thousand. There is a lot of good descriptions about the background. An example of this is: The stag at eve had drunk his fill Wliere danced the moon on Monan's fill. and: Come one, come all, this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. The plot is good. It is a frightfully good plot. It is almost as good as a good movie. That is to say, I, myself, personally was thrilled by it. It is terribly melodramatic. There are some awfully dramatic scenes in it. Drama is when if you don't just walk around the stage saying things, but if one does something much more subtle, such as saying: Come one, come all, this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. It is all about a girl named Ellen and a man named Fitzjames and a man named Malcolm Graeme and a man named Roderick Dhu and some other men. These men are all madly in love with Ellen. I can only give this brief summary of the plot because I am getting sleepy. The metre is very good. It is very suitable. It is an excellent metre. It is fast because in a poem like The Lady In The Lake you want to go fast because one has only a short time to read it in and would not stay up all night to read U91 it anyway and it is very long and he wants to get through in a short time. It is made of four iambic feet. An iambic foot is when if you have one syllable and one short syllable and Miss Whiton says la LA. Pope says iambic feet are wounded snakes which blow soul-animating strains, alas, too few!! Iambic feet are used a great deal in the English language because, of course, the English language is very extensive and has a great deal of feet, but on the whole they use iambic feet, because people like to say la LA, only sometimes they say LA la and then it is a trochee. An example of iambic feet are: The stag at eve had drunk his hll Where danced the moon on Monan's till. and: Come one, come all, this rock shall Hy From its firm base as soon as I. These lines are very spirited and one hears them quoted a great deal. On the whole, considering everything, Marmion, I mean Tbe Lady In The Lake, is awfully well handled, I mean it is a good poem. THE WORMS THAT TURNED SCENE: The Biology room of a Tuesday morning. An air of tenseness hangs over the students who watch Miss Littell transferring worms from a central vat to individual pans. They shudder when Miss Littell straightens a worm with her own bare hands. Polly: What an awful smell. Min Littell flooking upj: What did you say? Polly: I said, What a disgusting odor. Mira' Littell: Polly, the word disgusting is not at home in a Biology Labora- tory. Girls, I know this odor is unpleasant but it is not the worms. It's only formaldehyde. Sybil 1 What's that? Helen: It's what's in Formamint tablets. Sybil: What's it do? Helen : I don't know. I suppose it helps the worms not to decay. Sybil: Do Formamint tablets help us not to decay? rm Min Li1te!!: Girls, girls, don't let your attention wander from the subject at hand. Beryl: The subject at hand. Worms! Oh Helen, remember Qthey singj long, slim, slimy ones, big, fat, gooey ones, oooshy, oooshy, oooshy, oooshy worms. Min Littell,' Not so much noise, girls. Beryl: Sorry, Miss Littell, it's only a song. QMiss Taylor distributes the pans. Each girl stares apprehensively at worm.j Belnbu fbrightlyj : Look at the darling mother mouse. It's in a temper. fEvery- one rushes to bowl where white mouse is belaboring a head of lettuce. Her numerous progeny cower in their chalk-box home.j Belnba fcrooningj : Darling little mousie. Look at its sweet little ears. Louires Since when are mother mice neuter? Bebba: Her sweet little ears, then. just like the small pink shells one picks up at Forte dei Marmi near Viareggio. Aren't they, janet? fanef: What? the ears? Exactly like the shells at-er,-yes, just like those shells. Beblm: One walks along the shell-strewn beach and one sees the delicate yel- low of the mimosas on one side and the Mediterranean on the other, so blue, so clear, so calm. Louire: And so full of the most translucent and vicious jelly-fish. Qclutching at a strawj Miss Littell, I haven't done my jelly-fish. Can't I, mayn't I postpone my worm for my jelly-fish? Min Litre!! Qfirmlyjz Do your jelly-fish this afternoon. Get to work, girls. fRecognizing the voice that must be obeyed, they meander disconsolately to their desks.j Claorur: How do we begin? Min Lille!! Qpracticallyj : Use your Baitsells. Anne: I just thought of something awfully sad about worms. Take a worm way down in the earth . . . jane! fpersuasivelyj: You take it. Anne fcontinuing with hauteurj: . . . way down in the earth who wants to come up. It might go on wriggling forever and think it's getting nearer the earth's surface and all the time be going in the wrong direction. fCries of commiserationj E613 Mlcbeline: The blood rushes to its head when it's going the wrong way. Anne fdefending her theoryj : It hasn't any blood. Miclaeline fwho has been using her Baitsellj: It has. It has a dorsal blood vessel and a ventral blood vessel and parietal blood vessels. Anne Qsadlyj: Another bubble pricked. Sarah: In .Iourney's End they said the same thing, about worms going down instead of up, and they said worms didn't have any blood. Min Littell: journeys End is wrong. Worms have blood. Sarala funconvincedj: Well, I don't see why the man who wrote journeys End should tell a lie, do you? Min Littell: Get to work, girls. QAII except Bebba recognize defeat and handle their worms with a multi- tude of tools.j Mrs. Littell .' Bebba, why aren't you working? Bebba: Miss Littell, I can't, really. In Italy girls don't inspect worms. I just can't stomach worms. Helen: Very few people can. Look at IHPGWOIIHS. janet: Oh, Helen, disgusting. Mirr Liltell: janet, I do not want that word used in my laboratory. Qanet concentrates on earthwormj Sybil: Miss Littell, I think I have a bad worm. It's all full of holes like stigmata. Lo11i.fe.' Do you mean stig- - - or sto- - -mata? Sybil: I mean what a leaf has. Loni.fe: Stomata then. Only saints have stigmata. Anne: Oh yes. St. Francis had them. I read it when I was reading about Duckio's works. Bebba: Oh, Dio mio! Dootchio. Min Litlells Attend to your worm, Bebba. Helen: It's really better to get it done now. You'll only have to do it later. Bebba fbridlingj: I should say that was my business. Beryl fsoothinglyj: Worms aren't so bad, Bebba. Wait till you get to frogs. Frogs squirt. IIl1f'0lll7IfdI 'lf Claornf: Oh, how disgusting! l62il FROM A LATIN COMPREHENSIVE fThe comprehension questions on the Latin college board examination are popularly supposed to be very dreadful, but any pupil who studies our specimen will have no difiiculty hereafter with this type of questionj III fDo not write a translation of the following passage but read it carefully and answer the questions set below.j Cicero Imfoleer the Gods Inter pericula examinationum, inter discrimina dierum, inter terrores noc- tum, horrescog a magistris, a libris, a tabulis nigris, fugog amicae nullum auxil- ium parentes nullas felicitates, mihi dare possunt. Insidia me expectant, latrones me sequntur, sum designata ad caedem. In biblotheca nullam pacem habeo, quod de examinationibus puto, in lectulo etiam non quiescere possum. Litteras Millicentianas habeo, non recommendata sum. Susa et Mellica, principes gentis, mihi non confidunt, Juliana me invidet. Propter stultitiam meam Vanna Bibberia se confert ad furorem. O di immortales! Multis cum lacrimis vobis fortunas meas commendo. Cicero, In Examinationem 50. fRather Adaptedj fYou mm! find the anrufers to the following question! in the parmge above., 1. How does Cicero feel? Ar1Ju'er: Awful. 2. Is this a natural feeling? Explain in full briefly. Amu'er.' Yes, absolutely yes. 3. Point out in this passage an effective piece of pathos. Amu'er: I think Susa . . . non confidunt is the most pathetic sentence that I have ever seen. It means just what it says. 4. Explain the reference to the Litteras Millicentianas. Amu'er: These were letters sent by Millicentia Optima Maxima, in her character of prophetess, to the unfortunate victims about to be led to the slaughter of the third week of June. They foretold the doom of the victims, interpreting the ravings of their maddened guardians. 5. Is Cicero justified in the reference to his stultitiam ? Amu'er: You bet! 6. Who was Vanna Bibberia? An5u'er.' A personification of an abstract quality, conceived of as the daughter of Iustitia and Intellectium. i631 BIOGRAPHY OF - QFor the convenience of those who will have to write Biographies of everybody who ever did anything for Ancient History next year we have inserted this form which, when filled out will do for any General in the History book., 1 was the son of his parents, --, a nobleman of -- and his wife, --, who died before he was born. He was born in -- B. C. In his youth he was a very remarkable child. He soon became quite import- ant and fought in the battle of Ti beside -, his faithful friend and teacher, ---. Soon after this he became commander in chief of the whole army. He soon ran the whole show. Soon after this he devoted his immense energies to driving the --s out of --. He made speeches before the: a. Senate, b. People, c. Assembly, d. Comisha Centuriaytaf' The mighty Hood of his stupendous oratory completely overwhelmed every- body. His speeches were good. His policy was to always win his battles. He first fought the battle of --. He then fought the battle of ---. Soon after this he completely destroyed the -1 army at --. Then he was acclaimed by the people. Everybody liked him. Then he went home to live with the people and everybody got very sick of him. So he took his army to --- where he was hit by a falling tile and killed in -i- B. C. Plutarch says that he cut off his dog's tail just to show off. Livy says that he had more than: a. Roman, b. Greek, c. Egyptian, d. Punic perfidy. Herodotus says that he was so great that when he played marbles in the middle of the street the chariots turned out of the way, but Thucydides does not say this. ll was a great man and a brilliant general. He contributed a large amount of civilization to the world. VGICES CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS Miss VAN BIBBER: Use your mind! Think! Think! Miss CAREY: Shall we sing hymn 1669, all the verses? Miss FOWLER: You poor darling lamb, do you really mean to say you've never heard of Mt. Parnassus? MISS LITTELL: I will not have that word used in my laboratory. MLLE. CHAMPRIGAND: C'est bon pour vous que j'ai un sens d'humeur. Miss SHIPPEN: I do wish you'd do your history in history class. l64l ,gwawiamxwy X PHYSICS LABORATORY BIOLOGY LABORATORY K 65 I PHYSICS Impormfzt Laws and Prifzcipler KIDDER,S LAW: Every cc. of water weighs the same as every other cc., and they all weigh 62.4 lb. MANSHIP,S PRINCIPLE: The ocean does not freeze because it is kept above o'C. by the heat generated by the friction generated when the fishes wave their tails. VEEDER'S THEORY: One is uncomfortable on a humid day because you can't evaporate. SOMERVILLE'S STATEMENT: Energy goes off in little pieces called quan- tums, called quantums in honor of the scientist of that name. Procedure for Experinzefztr This procedure will do for almost any experiment, but for example, take the HEAT OF FUSION OF ICE. I. PREPARATIONS 11. Look up number of experiment to find out what it is all about. 6. Ask Miss Van Bibber what it is all about. t. Ask Miss Van Bibber for apparatus viz.: ice bag ice mallet axe steam shovel, etc. J. Ask E. Gould ffor a changej, where to find more apparatus, viz.: calorimeter thermometer paper towels water i66l Now all the apparati are assembled and you are ready to begin the ACTUAL EXPERIMENT. II THE ACTUAL EXPERIMENT Smash ice. Smash finger. Explain to Miss Van Bibber that you did not realize you were swearing. Dry ice. Explain to Miss Van Bibber that you were putting ice down Fanny's neck to dry it. Weigli calorimeter-I-water-l-ice+stirrer-f-thermometer-l-anything else you want to put in it. Weigli calorimeter-water-ice-stirrer-thermometer-anything else you want to take out. Weigli calorimeter -l- water-ice+stirrer-thermometer-l-or-anything else. Take temperature of everything you can lay your hands on. Now the experiment is over, but there yet remains the FIGURING. THE FIGURING Subtract, add, and divide weights and temperatures from each other. Ask Miss Van Bibber if 198991118 + .0973 makes any sense and if 2'l'2f15. Listen to Miss Van Bibber's comments on people who do long division. Ask Miss Van Bibber why your results won't do. Try to make results come out right by man power. Bear up bravely and ask Miss Van Bibber for calorimeter, towel, scales, stirrer, thermometer, paper, water, ice, axe, monkey wrench, steam shovel, etc. And proceed as before. I 671 WHAT THE TEACHERS WOULD SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK if lbey read lhir far. Miss CAREY: An excellent book. Rewrite. Miss VAN BIBBER: How did you get these results? Miss biological side a little. Miss this a little bit quieter? Miss QZQ interesting. Miss SCOTT: The work of dumb driven cattle. MLLE, CHAMPRIGAND: Quel audace! Bien banal. Miss FOWLER: Wliere is my dependable class VIII? Miss SHIPPEN: Better than I expected. MISS MILLS: A little too wordy. 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