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

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y our 1 News Commentator 1954- ' 955 iP)R- WELLS and Mrs. Dean gave the Shaw lectures — which was fine, because then everyone knew everything about the Interna- tional Situation. . . . At long last, permission to nave loud-speaker radios was given. . . . Some changes were made in the Summer Camp — now we don ' t know whether it is Bates House at Long Branch or the B. M. Summer Camp at Avalon— but we think it ' s fine for the kid- dies. . . . Gertrude Stein came, came Gertrude Stein— the whole world turned out, motivated by intellectual curiosity, morbid curiosity, idle curiosity, or just curiosity— we learned that poetry is loving the name of anything and prose is the emotional balance of paragraphs the unemotional balance of sentences— we ve been mulling that over and over ever since. . . . Dr. Leary announced that the freshmen smoked very little— wait until they get to be sopho- mores is all we had to say. . . . Varsity Draroat decided to give Cymbelme— we wondered about it vaguely when we saw it— but decided that it was probably meant to be a noble ex periment and who were we to question Shakespeare or Varsity Dramat. . . . Everyone got excited be- cause everyone else had developed a passion for spinach at tea-time— a trend which surely indicated something. . . . Mrs. Slade came to break the news gently about the drive— we thought— nay, we knew— that $l,ooo,000 was a mighty sum— but since they didn ' t ask us for cash, we saw no harm in just signing little paper cards. . . . Along about this time, the college in general became slightly feverish in the cause of Peace— some of us were rabid on the subject, while others were apathetic paci- fists—but we all thought Peace Demonstrations were fine things indeed, and anyhow we got a cut. . . . The Viennese Choir Boys came— we heard and gooed and gurgled about them for days. . . . We covered ourselves with glory by setting a new record for hygiene boners. . . . We learned that Madame Sikilianos was go- ing to produce the Bacchae — which gave us something about which to speculate — nor were we disappointed . . . The News began to thun- der the pros and cons of giving Big May Day —we said yes we would be in it— in fact, we insisted that we be given the chance. . . . We thought Freshman Show was grand— almost as good as ours, in the last analysis. ... A novel note was struck during the winter when agitators agitated about Improving Library Etiquette. . . . W e were only beginning to recover from the nervous strain of falling over Fortune ' s candid cameraman at every step, when Vogue ' s inquiring reporter began to be- leager us at every turn. . . The Faculty pre- sented us with Much Ado but Not for Noth- ing you will recall that 27 of us had to be carried out on stretchers after Mrs. Manning appeared as a Bird in a Gilded Cage. ... A. MacLeish came to lecture— everyone resolved to read Conquistador during the summer. . . . Little May Day was rainy— but in spite of it all the glorious voices of the Sophomore Seren- aders were only the slightest bit flat. . . . Glee Club did Pirates of Penzance in a superlative way. — and the dance which followed was in turn followed by a wild suggestion that in the future we have two staglines— this proposal was received rather coldly. . . . We took any num- ber of final examinations and passed some 01 them. . . . As a fit finale, we did our good deed for the year and, by our indefatigable labors, managed to get our dear Sister Class gradu- ated in fine style. 16