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

Page 16 text:

development hasn ' t been neglected either. We had a very nice coming out dance last spring, and we are thinking of going back into the lists again, these things will pop up in the spring, it ' s just like measles only of course they come any time, don ' t they? But mostly when you don ' t want them, not like wisdom teeth just before vacation. We ' ve always thought how nice it was of Providence to arrange that wisdom teeth come at the college age, it ' s so appropriate. Where was I? Oh yes, the innovations are still coming. Of course we change ourselves quite a lot. For one thing our personnel isn ' t the same as it was in our youth and our appearance is a bit different. The style of headdress changes. Funny how one has to have variety in one ' s appearance. It must be the same primitive urge that makes a man want to grow a beard. Some of our pastors and masters realized ahead of time that the strain of parting from us was going to be more than they could bear, so they just sneaked off on their sabbaticals — it made a very nice excuse — and that made quite a difference in our lives. But the real achievement of our career has been saved up to the last. We proved it, corpus vile that we are, and always were according to some people — but I wouldn ' t listen to them if I were you. Something had to be done about it, and they saw it. So she came to the rescue, an Alice with the Looking Glass (or maybe it was Millice with the Catalogue) and behold, a new curriculum! Sisters, it was not in vain though it took four years to do it. Now we hand on the torch to you. See what you can do with the dear old place. We suggest you concen- trate on Taylor. f 101

Page 15 text:

THESE CLE EYES HAVE SEEN THERE certainly is something about this feeling of being a femme fatale . Wherever we go something happens. Of course we would be the last people to call attention to ourselves in this way, but it seems to be the thing to do these days, the best people are breaking out into biography, even silent Cal has done it and he was the only person who ever beat us at our own game. Strong and silent we always were — anyway silent, why, we don ' t even sing in our bath. Well, as I was saying, things certainly do happen round our neighborhood. Of course we were a bit of an innovation ourselves when we blossomed out on the unsuspecting campus a whole week ahead of time. Why, it was enough to make any well-scheduled cherry go right off its balance to have so many buds running around when it wasn ' t ready. It upset us too, but when Olympus nods — from the second floor of Taylor — what can anyone do? If we remember correctly, the full blown flowers of the previous year thought us a bit out of place, but we didn ' t much care. We knew somebody loved us, because the minute we came to town the new Seville opened and we have been buddies ever since. Of course there is such a thing as taking too much to one ' s self, but it seemed to us that it must be more than mere coincidence that on our arrival the Self Government Board suddenly realized how antiquated its methods were, and that the only way to manage these young people is to keep right up with them. And they did. It ' s been a pretty stiff race sometimes, but from that first year when they revised all the rules to suit us, we haven ' t yet succeeded in out- distancing them. Taking it all round, the college has been pretty big about adapting itself to our needs. They realized right off that with our general tone we weren ' t going to need much extra culture and they cut down on the English requirement. For a while they had an idea that we might care for athletics, but they saw that it really wasn ' t much good. When a girl is set on her studies the way we were, there isn ' t much you can do about it. So they gave it up. Optimistic they are though. They still try it on the younger generation. Of course you realize that by this time we were growing up and no longer held that rather dubiously distinguished title. Olympus saw that we were growing up too and they put their heads together and held a conference. This here, they said, is the modern girl. She can look after herself and all she needs is scope and she will develop something wonderful. Of course her elder sisters were nice girls but they hadn ' t that fine, self-reliant spirit that this one has. We couldn ' t let them go abroad by themselves. But this one — -So they ar- ranged for us to spend our Junior year in France. Of course all of us couldn ' t have gone — that wouldn ' t have been fair to France, but we did all we could in the summer, and I think we may say that that Pershing spirit has been finely preserved by us, even if we did not actually murmur the famous words as we slid down the gangplank. Well, here we are, broadened by foreign travel, getting on nicely in our develop- ment thank you, extremities still normal, almost educated, the diploma hanging like a carrot in front of the nose of the — well, perhaps that simile isn ' t quite fair as they say our I. O. was pretty good, — and still the innovations come. Of course our social 191

Page 17 text:

rEESHMAN yEAC [111