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

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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 MjktirB, 1913-1920 All-round championship won by 1921 HOCKEY won by 1921 Captain — V. Corse E. Bright M. Dunn C. McLaughlin F. Martin Captain — H. Rice A. Smith J. Richards Team A. Smith E. Page V. Corse On Varsity — E. Bright WATER POLO won by 1921 Team A. Fitzgerald V. Corse H. Rice E. Page Manager — E. Bright M. MacFerran A. Howell H. Rice K. Raht Manager — D. Stewart A. HoWell L. Affelder E. Bright E. Hurd SWIMMING MEET won by 1921 Captain — A. Howell Team F. Knox E. Page F. Martin J. Richards E. Matthews A. Smith H. Rice 22