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

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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

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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

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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