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

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' By Their Speech Shall Te IQtow Them It has always been our aim to present the lives and loves of our classmates in the modern mode, and under the circumstances, and in the light of the fact that we have been joyously informed that there has never been a class quite like us before, and, if the gods are kind, there never will be again, we feel that our class history cannot be written in the manner of class histories in the dim, dark past. We are therefore attempting to present it through a review of the cliches which have been on every talented and brilliant tongue during our four years of preparation for the life to come. It all started when the lady of social repute gave a dinner and during the preliminaries announced that she had intended to have caviar canapes and then decided not to. Everyone raised their voices and shouted as one person cliche , and that is how it all originated. We have been raising our voices and shouting more or less the same things for many years and through them it is our belief that our careers can be most accurately sketched. Two inches taller and I would have been the world ' s greatest Hamlet. You know I think there ' s really something to that man Santayana. Freshman! Telephone! FRESHMAN YEAR 1. Can you go out with men around h ere? 2. She had blonde hair when I knew her in prep school — can you be- lieve it? 3. What do you talk about when you go to tea at the Dean ' s? 4. Do you realize she has never even been to a speakeasy? 5. I ' m only going to stay two years — just to please the family. 6. I ' d like to see her outside of col- lege. 7. She ' s never known any men real- ly well, if you know what I mean. 8. Do they ever check up on where you sign out to? 9. You show a marked tendency to- ward flat feet. 10. Marching along, marching along, Fifty score strong, Great hearted gentlemen singing this song. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. What did you really think about Ulysses? Have you started your long paper yet? Good, neither have I. Mine ' s a tragedy — I simply can ' t write comedy. I know, but the English faculty doesn ' t want to know the facts of life. Virginia Woolf may be the best modern novelist, but she doesn ' t mean anything to this baby. Caps and gowns make me feel awfully intelligent. I ' m going to chapel. It doesn ' t make sense. I had a credit average all semester and then end up with a sixty. Isn ' t Mrs. Collins cute? There ' s something positively om- inous about the Dean ' s office. Freud has a positively filthy mind. Parade Night makes me feel like I was back in prep school. I ' ll bet I draw the prize Lantern girl. I think the Seniors are really quite human. Wouldn ' t she have to be Presi- dent of Self-Gov? Well, it ' s all right if you live in Pembroke, but Rock has gratings on the windows. I ' ll never get my merits — not with that dandy Freshman Eng- lish.

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we Shall ' Be Shameless Business Manager Ruth Bertolet Assistants Katherine Louise Fox Betty Carolyn Goldwasser Ellen Nancy Hart Frances Pleasanton Art Editor Gabriel Brooke Church We wish to thank Miss Meneely, Miss Carter, Miss Fraser and Miss Dannenbaum for their valuable services to the Business Board. Editorial acknowledgment to Mr. Monroe F. Dreher, of Newark, New Jersey, for his suggestion of the Almanac format for this book.

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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.