Bryn Mawr College - Bryn Mawr Yearbook (Bryn Mawr, PA)

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5Fre0j)man Clas Supper Few of us, I think, can ever forget our Freshman Class Supper. Of course the charm of newness hung over everything, radiating perhaps from the resplendent newness of our banner, which had never yet been subject to the ravages of the elements upon the gymnasium wall. This newness was also fittingly marked by the fact that every- one took our rush-song phrase: You are our elder sisters dear, quite seriously. Time would fail me to tell of the preparations which had been made ; not only the decorations, but the place cards, each of which was adorned with some scintillating personality and also with appro- priate pictures taken mostly from advertisements. Theresa Helburn of course contributed to the gloom of nations. Yes, Terry was toast-mistress, and I have a secret suspicion that the witticisms she made that evening have remained with her throughout her course and have resulted in — but why complete what is obvious? Each toast was greeted with well-deserved applause, though I must admit that perhaps then we weren ' t as used to hearing ourselves speak as we are by this time. Anna Welles set the ball rolling by a speech to the class officers, and this ordeal of first toast, given while Sophomores are waiting for a chance to laugh at the wrong place, was passed triumphantly. Junior-Senior Supper, which came the same night, was toasted by Linda Schaefer; then, as our toast-mistress wished to give us a few surprises, Lydia Sharpless toasted hockey and Martha Plaisted did the same for basket-ball ! ( Who would have thunk it, as the Biology class exclaimed when Daddy Warren blew up a two-inch lung so that it filled the entire lecture-room.) 13

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Emily Fox then gave her opinions anent class meetings, and Dorothy Straus hers on dramatics, but perhaps the three cleverest speeches of the evening were Adda Eldredge ' s on statistics, Myra Elliot ' s on the faculty, containing those imitations which were in the beginning, are now, and ever shall be side-splitting, and Helen Dud- ley ' s on Chaucer, phrased in his own quaint yet abhorred language over which we had just been struggling. We all were filled with high seriousness when Louise Milligan toasted Loyalty, with such seriousness, in fact, that when my turn came immediately afterward to speak on 1908 as Sophomores, I found that my feeble attempts at mirthfulness had become so chastened and self-governed that they were almost imperceptibles (if the mention of such things may be permitted even in the same sentence with our Milly). Adelaide Case, as Freshman Class President, made the final toast : Our Class, and thus the eventful evening ended. Of course there had been the usual stunts between toasts, and the one I remember best was Helen Greeley ' s dance, followed by Adda Eldredge ' s imitation of it. All our songs were gone over, too, even our large and shining galaxy of class songs, and it was with great appro- priateness that we sang as birds in air we ' re gay and free, for that is a good way for Freshmen to feel at their first class supper. Caroline McCook. 1+