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

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15. Hear they aren ' t going to have Big May Day — depression I guess. 16. The whole thing ' s a publicity gag- 17. It ' s a mistake to make an under- classman the May Queen. They never get over it. 18. She ' s not buxom enough. 19. I think she ' s more the ideal peas- ant type. 20. I don ' t see how they get it all put together. 21. How do you make the petals stick with the stem? 22. What a rose! 23. To think the English did this for fun! 24. Skip, you fool ! 25. I don ' t know either — watch the person ahead of you. 26. We absolutely cannot put this thing over without the coopera- tion of every single one of you. 27. Mrs. Collins is frantic. 28. I hear Mr. King has had a ner- vous breakdown. 29. What a farce! So this is Merrie England ! 30. I hear she has never been on a horse in her life. 31. I can ' t help it — the stones hurt my feet. 32. There just isn ' t anything a Bryn Mawr girl can ' t do, is there? 33. I crown thee Queen of the May. 34. I ' ll bet it rains. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. Can you imagine Mrs. Collins if it does? You should see the Mask of the Flowers. No, they just dance. This seven o ' clock stuff is the ab- solute end. Have you seen the cute little man who drives the oxen? He ' s en- gaged to some Senior. Just what is the emotional status of oxen? Do you know? They just tumble-roll around, you know. I simply cannot jeopardize my in- ternational professional reputa- tion by letting you go on as trained by me personally. Open your mouth when you talk — you ' re not indoors. Louder! Louder still! Shout! Can ' t hear you yet! You ' ve got to keep up the tempo or the whole thing will fall flat. Dancers! Where the hell are the dancers? This May Day stuff is fine, but the professors keep forgetting it. Thought they were going to cut the work. She ' s going to Princeton house- parties, too — I ' ll bet she ' s fried on Saturday. Happy May Day! I feel as though I had been through the Great War. I ' m going to sleep for a week. I was a swell folk dancer, but it ' s the woman who always pays. That ' s all very well, but you ' ll never persuade me the Earl of Pembroke was the Dark Lady of the Sonnets. The machinery of the govern- ment of this country is just like a model T Ford. Oh, you know enough about the facts of life to pass. She ought to know — she ' s had enough experience. t 57. 58. This racket of girls cutting in gets me down. I ' ll bet someone gets tight and that will be the last of the Bryn Mawr dances.

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31. I haven ' t taken my S. A. girl out to tea yet. Do you suppose she ' d notice if I didn ' t? 32. Do you think the Prince and Princess of Japan actually no- ticed the cherry tree? 33. It ' s all very well not having a mid-year, but think of the final. 34. What ' s this I hear about no re- quired science? 35. I haven ' t been here one week- end all fall. 36. Can you bear it? Dr. Wagoner asked me if I was happy. 37. Just tell her you feel faint — she ' ll give you an excuse. 38. Minor History is the toughest course in college. 39. Do you suppose tar soap will take the dog fish off? 40. Would you believe it? I intend- ed to be an English major. 41. Who ' s writing Freshman Show? 42. We might as well call the whole thing off — Mrs. Manning has ruled half the class out. 43. She ' s supposed to be swell — had some sort of a job in the theatre somewhere once. 44. Better keep it clean — Miss Park reads it. 45. Last year ' s Freshman Show was the best there ' s ever been. 46. Did you ever see such a collec- tion of legs? 47. If this is dress rehearsal the per- formance ought to be swell. 48. Don ' t try to sing it — just sort of talk the words. 49. Flowers from a Senior! I ' m made ! 50. It would be swell fun to sneak a man in. 51. Do you suppose she ' d be sure to recognize P. G. Wodehouse ' s short stories? 52. I ' m using one of Margaret Culkin Banning ' s — she ' s too low- brow for the English department. 53. Who ' d want to stay here for graduation anyway? 54. It ' ll be great to be a Sophomore and not have to answer the phone. 55. You ' ll have to visit us in the country — you ' d love it. SOPHOMORE YEAR 1. Never saw such a lousy bunch of Freshmen. 2. It certainly is a relief not to have to jump every time the phone rings. 3. Freshman! Telephone! 4. Pretty degrading I call it. Be- ing quarantined for infantile paralysis. 5. Maybe they will send us all home. 6. Maybe they won ' t. 7. Wouldn ' t Dr. Wagoner have to call it acute anter- ior poliomelitis? 8. Sign out to Philly and then go to Princeton. 9. Well, someone has got to teach these Freshmen some manners. 10. It ' s all very well not hav- ing traditions, but there are some things a Freshman simply can ' t be allowed to get away with. 11. If she waits for me to tip her cap she ' ll wait a long time. 12. Oh, let the Freshmen keep their song. 13. It ' s a racket — this unemploy- ment. 14. Might as well give up desserts — no one can eat them anyhow.

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59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. If you cut back more than twice the fools think you have fallen for them. He ' s not very good-looking, but he ' s a swell dancer. So that ' s the mystery man! Well, after all, Haverford is pretty impossible. Are you hanging around for Garden Party? My Senior would have to ask all of Philadelphia. What were you in May Day? JUNIOR YEAR 1. Oh, why did he shave his beard off, not once but twice? ft Have you heard about Miss Rob- bins and Dr. Herben? This infantile business is getting to be a racket. I refuse to give up Thanksgiving vacation — I ' ve got a date for the Harvard game and I ' m going — that ' s all there is to it. 5. Who cares when we get out in the summer — Princeton doesn ' t graduate ' til the middle of June. 6. He ' s Theodore ' s greatnephew, I think. 7. I ' m not twenty-one until Decem- ber, wouldn ' t that burn you up? 8. Well, what makes you so sure he isn ' t a Tammany man? 9. That Socialist rally in front of the Lib ought to be worth taking in — remember Hell in Harlan ? 10. I don ' t care who gets elected as long as we get Repeal. 11. Have you seen Gilbertson yet? 12. Fenny says inflation is the only solution. 13. Well, look what it did for the German mark — and they couldn ' t stop it during the French Revo- lution. 14. If I don ' t want to read the Neivs I don ' t see why I should have to pay for it. 15. How about the rights of man? 16. It ' s the organ of the college and as such should have the support of every undergraduate. If you want a News you have to sup- port it. 17. What ' s all this stuff about having to dress for dinner? 18. Never heard of such nonsense — the next thing you know they ' ll want us to turn out in evening clothes. 19. Night and day, why is it so? 20. Did Kate Hepburn ever gradu- ate? 21. She ' s pretty stupid to deny she ever went here — just a publicity stunt. 22. So you Bryn Mawr girls never wash your faces or clean your finger nails? 23. All you have to do is say some- thing nasty about Bryn Mawr and the Philly papers jump on it! 24. You can ' t get a cent out of the banks — they ' ve shut them up. 25. How am I going to get to Prince- ton? 26. See if Sandy will cash a check for you. 27. This is the end — half the people I know are going to Majorca to live — it ' s plenty cheap they say. 28. I think Sackville-West is incon- sequential — imagine combining Virginia Woolf and D. H. Law- rence.