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

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v ,;,. w Upon the first of May . . . Their legs do never fail, They nimbly Their legs do ply, And bravely try The victory. In honor o th milking pail.

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Tho to the greene wood they speeden hem To fetchen home May with their musicall: And home they bringen in a royall throne, Crowned as King; and his queene attone.

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Dr ynmawrcn or lime f Tt ' 935- ' 936 This is the Brynmawrch of Time 1 his is the first of November, 1955, late in the afternoon. Paoli Local jammed. Bryn Mawr taxis swamped. Campus over-run with strange, excited women. Bryn Mawr celebrates its fiftieth birthday. Why, Jane! Why, Mary! I didn t dream I ' d find you here! Nor I you! But isn ' t it wonderful to be back? Isn t it? The same old fog and rain — I revel in it; and Taylor tower! Yes, Taylor tower! (Both) Taylor tower! Goodnart Hall ihe same evening. The tri- umph of education is revealed. Cornelia Otis Skinner, dressed like a schoolgirl of the Nine- ties, monologues on the struggle between love and education in her soul. Miss Park shows pictures on the screen of education on the Bryn Mawr campus battling greater odds than love. Taylor when almost nothing else but Taylor was. Merion without any closets. Students who were pioneers and wore a lot of clothes. But again, education wins. And now, lifty years after, it dons its laurels. November eighth. Another birthday makes history. But what birthday it is, is a philo- sophical question: whether it s the birthday before the first or the first itself. Or if it s both, then it s the second, since one and one make two. But the prolundities of the situa- tion are quite proper, since the birthday be- longs to Judith Weiss, whose father can settle it lor her. Today, December nineteenth, a memorial service is held in Ooodhart for President J nomas, who died on December fourth. It is in accordance with her own wishes, just as the interment of her ashes this morning in the cloisters of the Library was her wish. The col- lege is her monument. January sixth it is now. Time marches on. Bryn Mawr Summer School to return to campus, Miss Park announces today. Whether agreement will be permanent, no one can tell, she says, but: It would be a great mistake for Bryn Mawr to lend itself to the disintegrating force in American life which keeps people of differing opinions from working together in a harmoni- ous way. January still, but May is just around the corner, being a Big May Day May. Listen to this: Jane, have you made any flowers today? Oh, Mary, look, we have some yellow paper now! I just couldn t face any more of that pink stuff! Some one tell me quick! What do I do with the wires when I get this far? ' Hurray, I ve made a carnation! Simple! Ruffle the edges and there it is! A thing of beauty and a joy forever. Or hear this discussion of royalty, most ler- tile of themes. I don ' t care. I m all for Marilyn. You have to have some one who can act to be May Queen. ' (Continued on Page So) 20