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

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The Year Book of 1933 CHAPTER FOUR The next fall we gathered again under the clouds of quarantine (even from the village, this time) and unemployment. The latter brought once more a dessertless era. The quarantine was lifted in time f or outsiders to hear Vaughan Williams and Lantern Night. On Hallowe ' en one of our noble virgins went insane, after two days of psychologically correct mania and depression. Fortunately there was a quick recovery, and she and her victims were ready to pose for Chidnolf the next day. We were embroiled in Post ' Post-Majors and Honors by this time, and turned out only for such important events as Yeats and Grierson and the illustrious Piccard. Over all the annual events of the college hung the thought of ' ' this is our last. ' ' The beginning of the end was formally inaugurated by Miss Park ' s breakfasts. Soon we were beset with grippe and scarlet fever, and their evil concomitants, deferred exams and infirmary bills. Midyears came, bringing more reports this year than exams. The Unemployment Conference and Summer School next engaged our attention. In February, Goodhart saw a record crowd, assembled to hear Adler speak under the inauspices of the local psycholo- gists. March brought the bank holiday, which forced Pay Day to be put off a week. The New Deal followed it, inspiring us at college with an urge to change the old order. In succession we decided to have Spring Vacation as usual, to have Garden Party as usual, and (though this is a long story) to have subscription to the College News voluntary, as it has always been. The New Dealists stood corrected. The long stretch between Midyears and Spring vacation, always a season of discontent, was topped off by the breath-taking visit of Finkelstein. After Spring vacation those Honors reports began to take form, and Supervised Reading began to tighten up. The New Deal movement again asserted itself in reform of our hours, if not of our habits, of dining. It was that week (we can remember the coincidence clearly, in terms of supper-time) that Millikan explained how to probe the atom, in case we should ever find it necessary. Next week Merion Green reminded us of May Day, with costumes and dances and a play. Then we went back to our Honors, reports ■ [ 2? }

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The Year Book of 1933 and our supervised reading, hoping that diHgent students, hke Noah ' s family, might be saved in the hour of trial. And there came among us false prophets, saying. Ye shall flunk your Orals, and there will be v eeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. But I heard a voice, saying, They that labor shall be rewarded. And I looked, and behold, a great number of noble virgins, clad in robes of white and overgarments of black, and they stood in a high place among the elect of the land, and they received diplomas. And they cried aloud. Glory be to Miss Park, and to Mrs. Manning, and to the elders that have taught us. And I awoke, and behold, three empty beer bottles sitting beside my bed. And so I say unto you, take this vision and this prophecy for what it may be worth. May the grace of Sandy Hurst be with you. Amen. -[ 26 ]-