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THE 1923 CLASS BOOK down the bank, spreading panic among the spectators, who always gathered to watch Em ' s melodramatic and Mediaeval entrance. Mr. King stood about and »■ axed eloquent on horsemanship. Of course when the great day came, in spite of all the influence exerted for months past by the weather bureau, it rained, and the labor of many moons degenerated into a vaudeville in the gym. with tea served as an essential in- ducement. Mary Roberts Rhinehart spoke. Naturally, just as the few hun- dred undiscouragables were about to go home the sun came out, and Robin Hood with Friar Tuck and Will Scarlet and half the merry men gone on a bat in town, suddenly pulled itself together, and hastily cut some lines behind the chicken wire, where the cold tea, hairpins, and hand mirrors for the actors were kept, and gave an untraditional performance not to be parallelled for zest, spontaniety, and gusto. But the banners flapped on the towers all night and all day Sunday in a clearing wind, and Monday was May Day all over again. In the quiet sheltered, academic campus we now know, it is hard to recognize the land of maniacs that it was Freshman year. And riddled with reporters ! The search lights of the world were upon us. The European situation wailed in vain, No one paid any attention to it. The Sunday papers featured nothing hut the big festival at Bryn Mawr, which Miss Donnelly called the only thing in life that was good stuff enough to compare with a Chinese funeral. If you haven ' t time for training If your hours of sleep are nil If your eyelids feel tremendous And your yawns are hard to kill, There is one thing I can offer Which will give you time to rest Take courses full of lantern slides And snore away with zest. 20
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THE 1923 CLASS BOOK ilait Sag Our Freshman year was not college at all — it was May Day. We were no institution of learning, but a vast stock company, attending classes and ac- cepting such crumbs of knowledge as were unavoidable by way of relaxation in spare moments. Work began at dawn with little groups of serious dancers hopping about in patterns under the arches, just to get a little extra practice in before breakfast. It continued all day in weird manifestations that would have baffled even an uncasual observer. Someone in every hall was always making pretty posies out of Denison ' s colored papers with the most imbecile earnestness. Basketball, Track, Junior Play, Senior Play, Glee Club, and half of Freshman Show went the way of all good studies that year, and were heard no more. Life was one great rehearsal. There was no escape — if you were a Maypole dancer, a beef -eater, a cyclops, a fury, a fool, a chimney sweep, or in one of the plays, your waking hours were spent with the single end in view. The Costume Committee set up an elaborate dress-making establishment on the top floor of Cartref and seethed there, knee-deep in scraps and snippets. Scenery was less of a problem — it was chiefly a matter of keeping off the grass: In fact, to allow one ' s foot to fall off the sidewalk was a thing to be spoken of with bated breath and a whisper of the sacred words May Day . When the May Queen went to the Infirmary with a blemish to her complexion two or three weeks before the date which to all intents and purposes marked the end of the world, an hourly bulletin was issued to the listening campus by the Board of Health. She recovered, but such was the general concern that she was, roughly speaking, personally put to bed by the Apple every night. Mrs. Skinner was like a benign deity calmlv surveying all. Samuel Arthur King was omnipresent as the grass-hoppers in June. The classes in articulation did not exist. One was expected to absorb a knowledge thereof at rehearsals, and we all learned a great deal about Hamlet and taking snuff and other well known items. The climax was reached when he was playing Thisbe to Dorothy Burr ' s Pyramus, and the latter blandly asked, Am I to take these advances seriously, Mr. King? At the first outdoor rehearsals we all split our voices on an adverse wind, and were doomed to hoarse whispering for days to come. In Robin Hood the horses got excited by Em Anderson ' s rushing in at full gallop, and charged 19
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