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

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Four Bright Years OR THE ROVER GIRLS COME TO COLLEGE CHAPTER THREE WHEN our girls returned to college to commence their Junior year they were no longer as carefree and rollicking as before. To tell the truth they felt the responsibilities of being upper classmen weighing upon them. All of them had tender consciences and they could never forget that they must now always set an example to the younger girls about them. And also they had become acquainted with some of the hard facts of life in Hygiene the spring before. They had come to realize the dark as well as the sunny side of life. In point of fact they were women now and no longer children. As soon as they arrived they started right in to study for their German Oral although the ordeal was not to take place until spring. You may be sure they didn ' t grudge the time spent one bit, for the Dean had said it would help them with their Science and they felt she had about hit the nail on the head. They took their science very seriously and many were the long hours spent in the great bare Laboratory. The dogfish was quite a novelty for them. Indeed the sight of a dogfish was something terrific, but the Rover girls didn ' t mind, they just gave it a cheer and looked some more. No college can fail with such students. But it was not all work and no play for our little women. They spent many happy evenings together in the smoking room, listening earnestly to fine music on the gramophone and ardently discussing the philosophy of Gundelfinger and other leading writers of the day. Too, they found Bridge a great relaxation after a hard day of work, for their keen minds took delight in a game that required skill as well as luck . Throughout the winter the thoughts of all the students were on the great event of the year, for this was the year of Big May Day. All their spare moments were spent in preparation for this occasion. Such fun as they had one night making paper flowers. Everyone pitched in with a will and by ten-thirty the flowers were finished to the tune of Frankie and Johnnie . Then they all began to dance the 29th of May in the show-case. And so it went — cheer after cheer ringing through the hall until someone who had gone to bed opened her door and cried, For God ' s sake shut up! And you may be sure they shut up and with a will too, like the good sports that everyone is — or are. The red-letter day finally arrived. For several days beforehand it had rained cats and dogs and the spirits of all the students w-ere a bit below par. The day dawned bright and fair, however, and it almost seemed to the girls as though Providence was watching over them. The Rover girls jumped from their beds and speedily donned their Elizabethan costumes. They clapped their hands with joy when they saw the sun peeping in at them. Very early in the day crowds of spectators began to arrive and soon the beautiful campus in its mantle of spring was thronged. Then the festivities began. Groups of graceful girlish figures danced Old English dances on the Green, and plays were given in various parts of the grounds, and the most beautiful girl in college was crowned May Queen amidst ringing applause. The day wore to an end and all our girls, tired as they were, agreed that it had been just the happiest day of their lives. Cheer after cheer pealed out for the College, for the President, and in point of fact for almost everything. It was with radiant faces that they finally retired to their well-earned rest. Pag e Twenty

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Class Officers 1927-1928 President Nancy Woodward Vice-President Rosamond Cross Secretary Katherine Collins SELF-GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION Executive Board Alexandra Dalziel Elizabeth Perkins (resigned) Rosamond Cross Elizabeth Fry Barbara Channing Secretary Ruth Biddle CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION Vice-President .... Martha Rosalie Humphrey Advisory Members . . Ruth Biddle, Sarah Bradley UNDERGRADUATE ASSOCIATION Advisory Board . . Jean Becket, Elizabeth Ufford Secretary, Barbara Humphreys (resigned) Virginia Fain ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Vice-President Rebecca Wills Treasurer Carla Swan THE LANTERN Editorial Board . . Hilda Wright, Barbara Channing Business Board . Josephine Van Buren, Grace DeRoo THE COLLEGE NEWS Editorial Board Elizabeth Linn Katherine Balch Mary Grace Business Board . . . Jane Barth, Julia Garrett SONG MISTRESS Laura Richardson Page Nineteen

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