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

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Cbttorial JBonrb Editor-in-Chief Florence Gage Hatton Assistant Editors Helen Herron Taft Helen Everett Mary Gertrude Brownell Business poaib Business Manager Dorothea May Moore Assistant Business Managers Gertrude Emery Anna Brown Treasurer Dora Levinson

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preface A CONVENTIONAL preface, I suppose, should be written by the Board of Editors assembled in solemn conclave. At least 1914 did it that way, with little Coolies peering in at the windows and members arriving dramatically in response to frantic telegrams. But I might telegraph all day and no one could come to join me here, so I am going to break the convention. That ' s quite the traditional thing for 1915, anyhow, I believe. Gerty is riding horseback through Yellowstone Park — so her last special delivery from Wyoming told me; Helen Everett is somewhere between Rhode Island and the western coast; and Helen Taft wrote a fortnight ago from Canada, I leave a week from today. The wind bloweth where it listeth and so, evidently, doth she. But even though we can ' t be together in the flesh, we are one in spirit — and that ' s more than a good many Boards can boast of. What ' s the good of all our psychology, anyhow, if we can ' t practice a little absent treatment, hypnotic suggestion stuff now and then? I believe that we can, and I am firmly convinced that this Preface is really written by us all in the most modern scientific- fashion, even if it is my hand alone that guides my new chicken-feather pen across the page. First of all we want to tell you how glad we are to send out this little memory book to you just at the beginning of October when all our thoughts are turning back to speckly note books, Taylor bell and camphor balls. Once we thought that we never should get it to you. The proof was lost, strayed or stolen somewhere between the Atlantic seaboard and San Francisco. We had visions of sitting up nights forging articles and plagiarising from ancient class tomes; but at last the package came in safety and we breathed again. Then there were the articles that were lost or didn ' t come and those that did come and couldn ' t be published. If you miss Mary Parke ' s humor from these pristine pages — don ' t blame us. Didn ' t we tease and implore for days? But M. P., we said, with tears in our editorial eyes, you know you ' re screamingly funny when you talk. Am I? piped M. P. innocently, rolling up old clothes for the Phillie Second Hand Shop. Well I tri edto put things down on paper and they weren ' t a bit humorous. I just can ' t