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

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Four Bright Years OR THE ROVER GIRLS COME TO COLLEGE CHAPTER TWO THE Rover Girls returned to college in the autumn full of tales of their experi- ences of the summer and of plans for the coming year. The first day of classes was a happy one. Rollicking voices echoed through the corridors, friends embraced friends, and even the somewhat grim old statues seemed to smile down benevolently on the merry throngs below. Bryn Mawr seemed just the nicest place ever to these girls after the four long months they had spent away following various pursuits. The first event of the year was Parade Night. For days beforehand the Sopho- mores sleuthed , trying for the honor of the class to learn what the Freshman song was to be. But the Class of 1930 was too clever by half for them. The evening came and the whole college frolicked along beside the brass band brandishing torches aloft. One junior fell into a ditch that had carelessly been left uncompleted, and as she fainted from pain and shock she gasped out, Save my C. A. girl! This just goes to show the spirit that prevailed. When the Class of 1929 failed to get the Freshman song you would have thought they might show their disappointment. But not they. They just cheered more loudly than ever like the bully good sports they were, and trooped off to the new movie palace, the Seville. Not many girls have a nice movie to go to every night and you may be sure that the Rover girls made the most of their opportunity. Soon our heroines settled down to their work and play. They were all earnest scholars and they spent long hours in the Library, or Lib , as they jocosely termed it, searching through the stacks and browsing in the New Book Room. Often they would become so absorbed that the welcome cry of Sandwiches! would scarcely stir them. But you must not think that our girls had lost all their fun- loving nature. No, indeed. They were still always ready for any sort of jollification, and many were the larks and merry times that they had together. Often they would gather at the Inn for tea; and every evening they danced the Charleston in the cor- ridor until the venerable rafters shook above them. Indeed their Warden often laughingly remarked that they would bring the roof down. As the winter wore on there came another great event. This was the dance the Sophomores gave for the Freshmen. It was an Apache dance and the great gymnasium was gaily decorated as the underworld of Paris. An uproariously good time was had by all, and everybody remarked afterwards that it was much more fun to dance with girls than with boys anyway. As Spring came to the beautiful campus the students blossomed forth as gaily as the buds on the trees. Varicolored berets and rainbow-hued coolie coats made the college a veritable garden of lovely color. On Little May day the Rover girls were up betimes arranging May Baskets for the Seniors. They had spent days beforehand ranging through the fields in search of spring flowers, and such tun as they had singing Awake Awake Oh Pretty Pretty Maid to their sister class in the grey dawn. The crowning joy of the year was the Garden Party. The Sophomores ran glee- fully up and down stairs fetching chairs and vases, and if they bumped into anybody they just gave a cheer and picked up what they had dropped and went on their way. But there was sadness mingled with the joy. The Rover girls felt their eyes filling with tears at the thought of their Seniors actually graduating and leaving the college for good and all. Page Sixteen

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Class Officers 1926-1927 President Elisabeth Perkins Vice-President Alexandra Dalziel Secretary Barbara Channing SELF-GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION Executive Board Alexandra Dalziel Elizabeth Perkins Treasurer Sarah Bradley CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION Advisory Member Constance Speer Secretary Martha Rosalie Humphrey Treasurer Barbara Channing ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Secretary Carla Swan UNDERGRADUATE ASSOCIATION Assistant Treasurer Elizabeth Ufford Advisory Board Barbara Humphreys THE LANTERN Editorial Board Winifred Trask Hilda Wright Business Board Mary Gessner THE COLLEGE NEWS Editorial Board Elizabeth Linn Katherine Balch Business Board Jane Barth Rosamond Cross SONG MISTRESS Barbara Channing Page Fifteen

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JUNIOR Page Seventeen