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

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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