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

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I always wonder what will happen if I take a quiz in a place not prepared for me by a blue book. Senate and Self Gov. seem to work like a kind of underground railway; the mystery of the thing makes me go to chapel when they read rules. I think the Ludovisi throne is simply baffling. No one will say exactly what it means, but the archaeology department all acts as if we knew. It ' s almost as puzzling as the Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii. I could grasp archaeology so much better if I were sure what the mystery was. B. is confused in one of her courses too; the art professor (he is a German) keeps talking about the bear, and all she can see in the pictures are nude figures. 1 thought I ' d staved off all evils until February Pay Day. but the Bryn Mawr League of Bryn Mawr College has put pledge cards on all the doors, and the Mail Table is full of pencils announcing a Saks sale at the Inn. In essence, I am on the two horns of a dilemma, without substance. And the Greeks have a word for my coffee and coke bill. The problem is definitely between idealism and materialism in the United States. With seven dinners, one Current Events, the Philharmonic on Sunday, and the Flexner Lecture, I should be able to finish Mother ' s mittens before Christmas vacation, if I don ' t confuse the directions with my physics notes. I shall definitely not major in science, though I told Miss W. I would. She said I would not. B. prefers fines for non-attendance to the apathy of class meeting where you elect people to offices no one hears of again. She says you get over class spirit when you stop wanting to be a girl cheerleader, but I disagree! I think all this Sophomore spying and Senior steps fighting is lots of fun. I guess I ' m just an extrovert. I tried to work out exactly what I was in the bath tub tonight, but the ad for stockings kept distracting me. B. is perfectly wonderful. She can talk in the same cutting, curt way that the News editorials do. She said the arrival of the News is to Wednesday night what the 1:39 is to Friday, and both are vehicles of the voice of Bryn Mawr. I think college is very daring to begin vacation on a concert day. Stokowski is no one to be coughed at. He is so expressive. So is Victor Hugo. But it is good to see new waves and high heels everywhere on campus, and I am glad Christmas has come. Why, I don ' t know. My time will be all taken up with that paper on the Whetherness of Platonic Love in Venus and Adonis. I don ' t know yet if I ' ll hand it in for philosophy or English Lit.; the papers are due in the same week anyway. I have most of the Lib. in my suitcase. Not as many books, however, as Freshman Year.