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

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Highlights in the ears 1 News 933- ' 934 OCTOBER 1Q . . . Parade Night festivities, absent from the campus the previous year, were resumed. The freshman song, to the tune of The Old Grey Mare , was parodied by sopho- mores, one of whom discovered the tune and words by eavesdropping on Wyndham roof. OCTOBER lj . . . Freshmen received Ian- terns from sophomores in the dignified and tra- ditional Lantern Night ceremony in the Cloisters. OCTOBER 16 . . . Jane Addams, in the first of the Anna Howard Shaw Memorial lectures, inaugurated a celebrity-studded lecture season, including such speakers as Vera Micheles Dean, James Stephens, Edna St. Vincent Mil- lay, Alexander WooIIcott, Shane Leslie, Clay- ton Hamilton, Stephen Vincent Benet, Dhan Copal Mul erji and Dr. Arthur H. Compton. OCTOBER 21 ... A reception attended by QOO alumnae was given President-emeritus M. Carey Thomas upon the occasion of the open- ing of the Deanery as an alumnae house. Undergraduates gathered to cheer the retired President as she returned to the campus. OCTOBER 25 . . . Flash! Class of 1937 largest in ten years, had high smoking and sleeping percentage and potentially good pos- ture, statistics showed. OCTOBER 51 . . . The freshmen were given a scavenger hunt by the seniors, and the prize won by the Hardenbergh - Jackson - MuIIer - Seltzer team. Included in the list of articles to be procured were Mrs. James Chadwick-Collins in evening dress and baby bonnet, members of the faculty in red neckties, mousetraps, empty beer bottles and live dogs. NOVEMBER 7 . . . Flash! Plug-in radios lawful. Miss Park announced, causing sighs of reliel among those who had heretofore con- cealed them in fireplaces and large flower vases. DECEMBER 20 . . . Flash! Plan lor a comprehensive examination in the major field proposed by Curriculum Committee. To test the power of the students to use and apply the information which they have gathered from courses and reading, said Mrs. Manning in a News statement. DECEMBER and JANUARY . . . Interest in Katherine Hepburn ran high, what with her successful picture. Little Women, her very bad performance in a worse play, The Lake, and a Screenlana Magazine article referring to Bryn Mawr s soaring eagle. FEBRUARY 24 . . . Those freshmen who passed succesfully through ordeal by bluebook put on a melodram a, Never Darken My Door Again, which was highly praised. Sophomores failed to discover the class animal, a small green turtle. MAY 1 . . . Splendid weather made memor- able the first Little May Day to be enjoyed by the Class of 1957. Hoop-rolling, songs, sau- sage and strawberries had their parts in the tra- ditional festival. MAY 11-12 . . . The Glee Club was ac- corded plaudits for its production of The Gon- doliers, in which many of the Class ol 1937 had minor roles. 14