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

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Calendar of jfreajjman gear Octobee 2 Our First Class Meeting. Octobee 8 College Opened. Octobee 4 Class Rush. Octobee 5 Christian Union Reception. Octobee 11 President ' s Reception. Octobee 19 Senior Reception. Novembee 2 ' Varsity Hockey with Belmont. Novembee 6 and 8 Hockey Match Games with 1909. Novembee 8 Lantern Night. Novembee 9 Masks and Faces. Novembee 10 ' Varsity Hockey with Merion. Novembee 10 Sophomore Dance. Novembee 16 Banner Presentation — The Amazons. Novembee 24 ' Varsity Hockey with Germantown. Decembee 4 ' Varsity Hockey with Belmont. Januaey 10 to 17 Swimming Meet. Januaey 28, Febeuaey 2. Mid-Years. Januaey 26 Memorial Service for Dr. Irons. Febeuaey 27, Maech 7. Track Meet. Maech 15 Freshman Show — Alice at Bryn Mawr. Maech 25 Gymnasium Contest. Apeil 8 Thomas Wentworth Higginson gave Founder ' s Lecture on Whittier. Apeil 20 Glee Club Concert. May 1 May Day Celebration. May 3 Class Dinner. May 7, 10, 14 Basket-ball Match Game with 1909. May 11 Junior-Senior Supper Play repeated — La Prmcesse Lomtavne. May 22 to June 1 Finals. June 6 Commencement. 11

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ifrectyman gear Class SDllictta Temporary Chairman Temporary Secretary Frances A. Jackson Mary Worthington President Frances A. Jackson Vice-President and Treasurer HlLDEGARDE HaRDENBERGH Secretary Mary Worthington

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1910 ' iftitft Claaa Meeting ( With humblest apologies to Mr. G. K. Chesterton.) OBJECTION is often raised against a first class meeting, because it lays crude hands upon, and dives into the deeps of what should be sacred and secret about a class. Why have a first meeting? Why not leave tenderly unscratched that soil which will doubtless later yield both peaches and daisies in profusion? Everyone has felt the glaze of mystery over an unknown group of fellow creatures; surely it is a pity to draw the veil away too precipitately. Before a crowd has met to analyse itself, it is usually unconscious of being conscious; after the fatal step has been taken, it becomes conscious of being unconscious. That is to say, it feels its selfhood sink into interest in the others. It is a matter of irrelevancy whether a girl wears a bow on her hair, or a pigtail down her back; whether she has yellow, red, green, or pink eyes; whether her nose is a limb, or no nose at all, the fact of her having a personality is more startling than all the eyes and noses in the world. When we came to Bryn Mawr, we felt we were embarking upon the momentous fact of our lives. There is usually in the universe nothing as fanciful as fact, nothing as unreal as reality. We decided, then, if it were a dream, to take our places in the dreaming of it, and hold this first class meeting. It was first-class; it was first-rate (rated first of all, in fact) ; it was, in short, excellent and incomparable, there being no others for it to be compared to, or excel. We held it in the Abernethy ' s barn. Poetic spot! Has it ever occurred to you for what geniuses barns have been responsible? That Burns probably lived in a barn, and if barns had then been the fashion, that ancient wolf would have inhabited one, and Romulus and Remus graced our list. We felt, of course, that We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea ; we wondered how there could ever have been class meetings before ours, and, in fact, whether the college had existed at all before we came to receive the torch of wisdom. It is the world- old question of whether the lion roars in the desert, if there is none to hear him, and whether the college exists, if we are not seeing it. Oh! try, dear classmates, to recall that time, and become really full of the ancient ecstasies of youth. We have not utterly lost our inward warmth and geniality, under a thin coating of sinister pessimistic philosophy. That evening, before dark, in early Autumn, we stole to our rendezvous as proudly as any Baron de Gaulois or Count Vertigo to a duel in ancient days. Each member of 1910 13