Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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A Take for instance the pictures of the social life which naturally include shots of our dates. Now we know that those girls did not just appear on campus during the week ends. But there they are. You get the idea that it was by magic that they showed up for the football, hockey, or baseball game. Maybe it was at that, but Graham Bell earned a lot of royalties from the many telephone calls that went out as well as telegrams and letters. Remember the guy who got ten flushograms for Homecoming? It was a house record and just to save face he snuck over to Bryant on Saturday night to make an engagement for the evening. In the pictures they are just girlsshort, tall, blond, brunette girls. Where did they come from? Every time of year they were up there the dressed-in-fur-coat and six foot scarf ones, the bermuda shorts and sweatered ones, and even those with slickers. What a fool a person would be if he thought they just sat on the wings of the stage of college life to appear in fine regalia before the thousand eyed spotlights on the week end. If you went deeper into their geneology, you would find them during the week in Andrews Hall lounge knitting or playing bridge, at Toy Sun's for a coffee date, at the women's college in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., thirty minutes up Route 20, a few twisty back roads to Wheaton or even a three hour round trip to Wellesley; or, for that matter, a hundred other places. And by the way, they were not always just playing bridge or knitting during the week. Perhaps they were at Harvard or Yale or Princeton or even Trinity the week-

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i, ;' ; i end before. It was a highly competitive business to get those girls before the camera for a picture. Some of them have been caught or inversely have caught us and may become our wives; so when 1 lasting relationships I don't think T ex- aggerate. This brings to mind the even more valuable experience we gained racing with the clock and accepting the responsibilities of taking care of women. The deadline at the Broke was twelve- thirty during the week, and one o'clock and one-thirty on Friday and Saturday nights respec- tively, if I remember correctly. Now by fast car it was four and one-half minutes from Bovies taking red-lighted stop signs into account, and nine minutes and twenty seconds from the T- Bone excluding them, which is dangerous. From downtown Providence you pays your money and takes your choice. The time element was impos- sible to figure out due to Rhode Island drivers, suicide , and many blue suited fellows in souped up Chevrolets who didn't always see it our way. A brisk walk from the quadrangle to An- drews porch with not too many detours took about ten minutes. All converging couples merged at a few seconds to deadline, if lucky, on the porch where a short period of our favorite extra- el B