Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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20 NORMAL OFFERING At other times we hear these jolly songs coming from some room further down the corridor. We look in for a moment. There we see the room crowded with girls happily playing their nukes and mandies and patiently waiting for those fragrant odors to mate- rialize into real, substantial fudge! Besides enjoying themselves in a leisurely way in Woodward, the girls picked out the best hockey players in their dormitory and made up a hockey team that brought many a qualm to the other two contesting buildings. Their careful training and eiorts were re- warded when at the end of the season midst cheers and shouts the Woodward Hockey Team was announced victorious! The helpful spirit of the girls has been again displayed at the frequent House Meetings. The girls have given very clever and unique entertainments and have made the meetings far more inter- esting. The girls are now thinking up plans for a decidedly differ- ent and amusing Open House Program. If their efforts are rewarded as well as their previous attempts have been, we are sure of having it the best Open House of all the dormitories. Again we ask which dorm has the best spirit and pep and in our new Woodward song we have our answer: To the tune of There Is at Tavern in the Town - There is a dormitory called Woodward Hall It is the very best of all, best of allg It's noted- for its spirit and its pep That's what has given it its rep. ' Woodward girls the best of all Do not let your standards fall Remember to our name you must be true, be true! Oh! Woodward Dorm here's to you, here's to you Remember to our name we're true, ever true, We're noted for our spirit and our pep That's what has given us our rep ! MARION E. FAHEY, Secretary.

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NORMAL OFFERING 19 TILLINGHAST. Woodward is good-looking, artistic girls would say, Normal Hall is handy to the dining hall each day, But the center spot is pleasant the Tillites all agree. Across the road is Woodward, near at hand the Cottage Wee. Yes, Till is near the mail-box, so there's not far to go, And when it is pouring, Wood. girls their envy show. Oh Tillinghast is homelike, forty-eight fine girls in all, And from our dear Dean's graces, we very seldom fall. The girls are all so friendly, their morals very high, And ladylike and well-behaved, the teachers testify. The reception room is small and cozy in its wayg The furnishings delightful, it's warm on each cold day. Our government is perfect, officers kind and wise, And often on a Monday night, we have a nice surprise. In personality and brains, Till girls are peerless, too, All of which is evidenced by the peppy things we dog And when it comes to outdoor sports, Till is on the top, Until the final goal is reached, the players do not stop. Tillinghast is ancient, through time has stood the test, So all the girls there do agree, Old things are the best! ,VVOODVVARD DQRMITORY. House President, ELSIE MCPHEE Vice-House President, MARTHA BALDWIN Secretary-Treasurer, MARION E. FAHEY Which dorm has the best spirit and most pep in this school? Why Woodward of course! The girls of Woodward have been work- ing together to make their dormitory the best in the whole school. The joy with which they gather in groups in the corridor, each girl greeting so eiusively her long, lost room-mate or special friend, shows us that Woodward has cast a pleasant, home-like spell over its occupants. These greetings are more noticeable after a vacation. Before some of our brief recesses the girls have gathered upon the stairs at night and made the halls fairly resound with their school songs and familiar Woodward cheers. Then the dear old strains of Alma Mater are heard'from the circle of stirred and happy girls and the sing on the stairs has ended.

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NoRMAL OFFERING 21 NORMAL HALL. Dear Aunt Martha: My sisters are so busy that I am to have the pleasure of writ- ing to you. Of course you realize that when thirty-five girls have no father or mother, they have many, many, duties that occupy their time. We are living in Normal Hall now, and it is just the finest, most convenient house we have ever lived in. You know we can't all have our chambers on one floor, so seventeen of us live on the second floor and the rest on the third. Now Aunty, I can hear you say, What's on the Hrst floor ? Well, on the first floor we have a big reception room where my sisters entertain their callers. It is a very pretty room containing one piano, one piano stool, many chairs fwe never use themj and three big, red, velvet divans that are very comfort- able to sit upon. But I am afraid we will have to buy some new divans soon because the springs are broken in the ones we- have. You know some of sisters' callers are very heavy and they sit in one posi- tion too long. Have you any idea how much a new divan would cost, Aunt Martha? However, it is only on week-ends that sisters have company, so during the week we are alone, and we do have such good times. 1 Were you ever in a parade, auntyd? Well, it's just heaps of fun. I guess sisters and I could give even Barnum and Bailey a few sug- gestions that would add dignity in their parades. In our proces- sions we have everything from wild cats and crying babies to long haired monkeys. Sometimes I think that when we are on parade we look more natural than ever. You know, Aunt Martha, in a big family like ours we must al- ways have some trouble, and if Sister Vivian's poetic strain did not cause her to get up every morning at five o'clock to see the sun rise, and if Carol did not insist upon giving all night nasal bassoon con- certs, and if Mary T. would allow you to sleep in your own bed when you have invited her to spend the night with you, instead of rolling you off on the soft floor, and if Anna and Gertrude and Rose and Margaret would try and turn their own rooms up-side-down and in- side-out instead of their neighbor'sg and if Tina would not bore us with details concerning the deaths of her five husbands, but yet with her usual inconsistancy insisting that she is merely a grass widow