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

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SOPHOMORE YEAR

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Class Officers 1928-1929 President ........ Rebecca Davis 1 ' ice-President ....... Rhoda Walker Secretary ....... Eleanor Pinkerton SELF-GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION Executive Board ..... Elizabeth Livermore UNDERGRADUATE ASSOCIATION Advisory Board ....... Rhoda Walker BRYN MAWR LEAGUE Advisory M embers Marjorie Field Josephine Graton COLLEGE NEWS Assistant Editors Rose Hatfield Lucy Sanborn Dorothea Perkins Business Board Molly Atmore Yvonne Cameron LANTERN Anne Burnett Sarah Jenkins Smith SONG MISTRESS Charlotte Tyler ' .;.■ Eleven

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Second Fragment HAVING made a hurried trip to the outside world that it might be encouraged by the signs of their awakening, they returned for their second year. The first thing that they did was look for the lily which they had carefully labeled with a yellow tag before leaving. Their consternation was great when it was not among the other yellow-tagged articles and so was their horror when, after a frantic search through window seats and among old May-Day costumes, they dis- covered it at length in the furniture sale at the end of the hall. They learned from the older Bryn Alawrtyrs that this was a customary occurrence. It was still looking fresh and that helped them immensely. They realized that the care of their lily was going to be a very complicated matter. People would ask such upsetting questions about it, and would refuse simply to feel an answer. A few said it was because they didn ' t articulate properly, so they agreed to vibrate more seriously this year. Also most of them thought it would be a good thing to develop the learned activities that lead to reasoning. There were many sages who helped them in this period of their development, but there was one who took the lead, who was very English even if she ware not in England. And they would have loved to see the picture postals of Oxford quad- rangles and Anne Hathaway ' s cottage had the cards ever gotten to their side of the room. But there was a large scope in this course for their enlivened minds to work in, — the intricacies of the relation of John of Gaunt ' s second wife to John Gower ' s first had to be mastered, and a fascinating table of languages memorized. But another sage had told them that a good memory rule was to avoid getting hit on the head and so they had no difficulty in performing the amazing feats expected of them. Of course they had their perplexing moments. We shall mention only one of them, — the occasion on which they were told that a posthumous child was one born after the death of his mother. They had not been going once a week to the Medicine Lady ' s without learning something. So they broke through their confusion and rose in a body to declare their higher knowledge. The next day yet another sage contributed to their store, and henceforth they would always remember that women were absolutely the superior in the bearing and early nourishing of children. And just at that time, when they had grasped this astonishing lact, there re- turned to the fold a great figure who regretted this superiority. They paid her a visit in the beautiful mansion kept aside for her and their first thought was What a perfect setting for our lily! But instead ol a lily they found that the great lady was more concerned with a hook on the education of the industrial classes which she urged them to give their lathers and uncles for Christmas (one binding two dollars; the other a dollar and a hall.) Hut a lew words must he added about senile cil (lie sages whom we have already referred to. ' 1 here was one who devoted himsell to the study ol (he behavior in (he animal kingdom in order to explain that of the Bryn Alawrtyrs. White rats were among his favorites and In- used (o starve (hem lor days to see how they compared Page Xhivittn