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

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Class Officers President Margaret Tyler ice-President and Treasurer Emily Tremaine Anderson Secretary Serena Everett Hand Song Mistress — Margaret Alvin Krech (resigned), Constance La Boiteaux. Undergraduate Association — Advisory Board, Margaret Tyler. Self-Government Association — Advisory Board, Harriet Seymour Guthrie (re- signed), Katherine Lucretia Gardner. Christian Association — Assistant Treasurer, Katherine Stiles. The Bryn Mawr Review — Vinton Liddell, Barbara Murlless.

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Jfregfjman H tjoto FRESHMAN SHOW! What a night of nights! How we stay awake and cut and flunk over it! How we thrill and emote during the performance of it! How, the following days, we wear our corsages until they look like herbs and simples! How, all year, when called upon to sing, we wail out the curtain song in close — nay, compact, harmony; the vaguely indefinite curtain song, having nothing to do with the show — but with references to the sea and the lea, or distant shore, true evermore or even night and delight, sure to make it a success and to cause departing seniors singing it three years later to expire with grief. Our Freshman Show was glorious. As far as details go, I remember it in the vaguest fashion; but I ' m sure it was glorious. Preparations, unofficial, began after Christmas vacation, when everyone who had seen a musical show brought back ideas, some of which were good and some of which, along with their promoters, had to be handled as carefully as infernal machines. There were intense meetings of the committee, accomplishing nothing; and there was a politely uncomfortable meeting of the same committee with P. T., wherein that lady set forth the rules of Freshman Show (with all of which we were perfectly acquainted) and wherein the committee, each waiting for the other to speak, looked agonizingly pleasant, and wondered when it should try to go. We were to have no conversation in our show — absolutely no conversation. (It is clear P. T. never wrote a Freshman Show.) She had some balmy notion that a performance is simpler to put on if it is all danced and sung. (It is still clearer that P. T. never heard us dance nor watched us sing.) So we wrote a scene in rhythm — a chef d ' eeuvre — and thought ourselves deliciously sinful. Rehearsals were pandemoniac gatherings in the gym. I believe we were allowed four official rehearsals for the production. These gatherings were composed chiefly of absences. Such as came, sat on the floor talking violently. There were continual misunderstandings as to hours and we learned to smile in the face of such interruptions as the model school bounding in to do model gym, or an obscure class 12