Brown University Womens College - Brun Mael Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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Page Thi.-fy Senior History HE collegiate mind, so they tell us, has an irresistible tendency to classify the unclassiliable. Perhaps that explains why our college days seem already to fall into clearly defined categories. But aren't they bona fide categories? That lirst year was surely the Year of lfinthusiasm. The enthusiasm began at the very first chapel service of the year, when we applauded even that Senior song which character- ized us as stiff and shy and oh, so very, very green. C. A. reception was even more thrilling, and our voices shook with emotion in the last stanza of Alma Mater. All through that year we were carried along on an ever advancing tide of sheer de- light in things. We went joyously to teas, and never quite stopped talking about those cakes with the little brown B's on themi' which we ate admiringly at Prexy,s reception. May Day, the Glee Club operetta, the Masque, all charmed us, and form- ed a fitting prelude to the glorious cresccndo of Commencement Week, with its Ivy Day festivities and high academic solemnities. We brought back in the fall enough of our pristine enthusiasm to appreciate to the full the glories of Celebration Week. Anniversary play, Alumnae banquet, torch light parade, impressive academic processions and exercises-each and all increased our already intense loyalty to Brown, and our joyous certainty that we really be- longed. Yet, for all this, that second year might well be called the Year of Discourage- ment. Our freshman zest had somehow left us, lessons were hard and not always interestingg history and sociology were giving sad jolts to our thoughtless orthodoxy. 'l'he Masque, viewed with an insufiicient perspective, seemed laborious and lacking in merit. We were too busy and tired to enjoy the long, sweet-scented spring days, or to recover our grip on life in the serene sanity of the 'lien Mile atmosphere. Great was our rejoicing when june exams were over! We hardly recognized ourselves when we returned as juniors. Gone were our old-.time weariness and worries! We philosophized extensively, and settled for- ever that bothersome coniiict between science and religion. But most of all, this was the Year of Good Fellowship. We learned the secret of tolerance, that flower of all the virtues, and came to admire, as well as to respect, other peoplels sincere convic- tions. By getting together over Prom. we achieved a dance at once inexpensive and enjoyable. On Ivy Day it was as a class united that we received the trowel and with it the privileges and obligations of Seniors. BR,l:II'l mflcr. 1917

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X Page TTLWYIIQ'-II'i7ZL' 1917 Ofiicers I-IARRI Ii'I' CU'l'l.l'I R W.'X'l'I'IRNlAN .. .. ...,,.. PI'L'J'1.lll'7Il LOUISIC CICCILIA KICNNICDY ....- - .. ,.,'1'FI'-ljfffftiflll RUTH YOUNG .... ............... ..... S L vrctary. MARQIORIIC JXLINIC ROISICRTSON .. . .... 7'rr-zuurrr Ivy Day Committee ICUNICIC l'1iilZ1XBlC'l'll CILXCIC. Cllllllffllflll DRUSIl,I,.'X l I.A'I'lIl'IR KIARAIORIIC ALINIC ROBi'1R'I'SON BICSSIIC TLTRNICR KICICNIC IIfXRRlI'I'l' Clf'l'I.lCR WA'l'I'IRMAN Senior Reception Committee RU'I'Il YOUNG, Clznfrnxzlvl. MARY lCYiXNGI'Il.iNl'I ANDERSON FRANCIS PATRICIA O'CONNOR LICNA FRANCIQS UIIIJG BR,Un mncl. 1917

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Page Thirly-one 'l'hat was really the beginning of our Year of Responsibility. We didn't even take the summer oil, but used it. to encourage and to counsel the incoming lfreshmen by frequent and voluminous epistles. NVe took them more specifically in charge on the day when college opened, and have given them sage advice throughout the year. 'l'he ample leisure remaining from these and other more academic duties has been employed in various weighty tasks. 'l'he college organizations have flourished un- der our kindly supervision, and ineidently we've had time to capture the silver cup offered by the Brownies. Red Cross work has prospered until every college building is permeated with the fragrance of oalcum. NVe lcnow that eollege is going to miss ns almost as much as we're going to miss college. lint ol' course we shall belong just as much as we ever did. lndeed, we mean to be even more loyal as alumnzte than as under-graduates. Yes, Alma Mater, H- -still as the years roll on, 'l'hy name we'll defend 'ilfnto the end, And cheer, cheer, eheer for l'3ron'n. Batin mftci. 1917