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

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FOUR UNITS OF REQUIRED READING OR MEASURE FOR MEASURE A Midsummer Night ' s Dream The Future is a wonderful force, and one oi universal interest. I never used to have such good thoughts in my onlli! Wailing to get into Bryn Maui- lias definitel) changed my personality. Kven so. I vvouldn I dare say such a thing to anyone hut you, Diary. People would make fun of me for being philosophical. Just wait! At Bryn Mawr a girl can he herself and lalk about really important things. They ' re supposed to he deep there. It ' s strange, because when I was a sub-freshman and saw the girls at May Day they didn ' t look dee]). I guess you can t. though, dancing in circles. Anyway, I ' m sure I ' d see it now. m observation has been sharpened so by all my experience with college boards. ou ' d certainly think they vvouldn t ruin your whole summer ' s tour by keeping the results from you. How can I be broadened by the two hours we have in the Louvre when the only thing I want to know about is the next four years? Oh Diary, they all said I had a good mind! If I don t get into Bryn Mawr, 111 die. I know I will! Ill just see Naples and die! Oh Diary, at last I got a letter from Miss Ward! She said she was glad to tell me I ' d been admitted to Bryn Mawr. and then she said to cable and say if I wanted to come! As if, after all that waiting I had any other intention! It is wonderful to be sure of one ' s life again! I shall major either in psychology or English or philosophy. I shall not be the kind of Bryn Mawr girl that people at dances are sarcastic about. 1 don ' t see how a college girl could possibly want to be sloppy — supposing some Haverford bovs were to see you! And Bonwits and Bests have your clothes problems all worked out for you. — intriguing date dresses and contrasting tweeds. I won ' t have my room all full of trite chintz, either. Mother and I have picked out some maple furniture which will look very distinctive, and I have some big liquor bottles for my mantle: they ' ll be unusual and give it a worldly kind of air. I don ' t know yet which is to be my hall. Merion is supposed to have more esprit de corps. luil Rock has running water in the rooms.