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

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THE (HARM OF 1!)16— A CRITICAL PAPER 21 IV. Gtye J|ttf)erto Mnpubltsifjeb Secret of 1916 ' a tf)lettc gmccestf is Eebealeb Time-. — 1.30 p.m. Any year from 1912 to 1910, the day of the preliminaries of any match-game. Place. — The room of any captain. Characters. — Any 1910 captain (generally Polly) and the team (as many as are not disabled). Captain {with the assurance gained of many meetings in the past). — Well, we ' re going to beal them today. Tkam {doubtful but cheery). — Yes, indeed. Captain. — There ' s no reason why we shouldn ' t. All our team is playing except five people. And you all know they have never beaten us by more than twenty points in practice. MANAGER (indignant). — Yes, and did you hear what that fresh Freshman said? The Rest {eagerly, in chorus). — What? Manager. — That they were lucky to draw us. They had a chance to win now. Team (with spirit). — We ' ll show them! Like to know what made her say that!! Freshmen think they can do anything!!! Captain.— What we ' ve got to do is to start with a dash and not let them get more points than we do. Tkam {enlightened and correspondingly hopeful). — Why, yes! That ' s a fine idea. Captain (carried airay by the thought). — Make a lot of goals ourselves, you know, and don ' t let them make any. We can beat them easily that way, but we ' d better not take it too easy, even when we ' re way ahead. Team. — No, indeed! Pile up the score. Discourage them for the next game.

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20 T1IK CHARM OF I !) 1 (i A CRITICAL PAPER in. atan Jftnbs; OTork for Me anbs; to bo or, Qftje temptations tn pm PEOPLE who have never lived in Radnor do not seem to appreciate its advantages. People who have never lived on the fourth floor groan at the thought. But what could be more perfect than Radnor fourth Moor as a grandstand for the Temptations ' gym night? Certainly not those much-vaunted Merion posts of observation. Every Tuesday night, Mig and I would study by the window, and as the lights in the gym went on, ours went off (to make the other Radnor temptation-fans think us in bed) and we established ourselves on the window-seat. There never seemed to be much system to those gym nights. Each Temp, seemed to follow his own inclination. I remember Jonesy used to walk stiffly up and down the gym with a wand over his shoulder, knees raised high, or run doggedly round and round the track, never changing direction. Jimmy and Dewey and Rhys — when there wasn ' t skating — used to try basket-ball, but they were very vacillating (I always meant to warn Brale about Dewey ' s character as revealed on those nights) and skipped lightly from basket- ball to clubs to ropes to the limbs of trees to — no, no; what am I saying? Dr. Eisher came once in his little brother ' s out-grown bright blue suit and sat on the platform. We thought he encouraged the performance once, but were not quite sure he was so rough. And then there was the never-to-be-forgotten night when Dr. Ferree came and boxed. That really was what determined my taking Major Psych — a man who boxed like that ought to be able to get the course into a nut-shell. I think that was the only time he ever came; but his career, though short, was glorious. As far as we could tell, he had evi- dently been invited to meet the Red Lion in a boxing bout. He met him — much more than half-way — and left him, very red, lyon on the mat. As to the costumes — they were certainly charming, though we never could really tell just in what they consisted. I still feel sure that I would be a rich woman today if I could have verified some of the bets I laid on the perfectly bathing-suit top or the Jones pajams. Margaret Russell.

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it THE CHARM OF 1916— A CRITICAL PAPER Captain. — Play your hardest, everybody. There ' ll he plenty of subs. Three third and two fourth team people have promised to come down. You all know where you ' re to play, don ' t you? It doesn ' t make much difference. I ' ll probably shift you all around to different positions. Hut I ' ll try to let you know what you ' re playing. Hasn ' t some one a trick to explain? For. — When you have the ball look in a different direction from the one you ' re going to throw in. No one is ever there to get it then — I mean no one on the other team. Captain. — That sounds good. Remember il. Now everybody don ' t eat or drink anything and go to sleep. Those Freshmen have Lab, so we ' ll be fresher than they are. And remember, WE ARE GOING TO WIN. {Exit team, leaving captain in her air-castle.) Eleanok Hill.