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

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Freshman English: Miss Staplelon Comptroller ' s Office 1939 DECIDES TO ASSERT STUDENT OPINION Platform Splits Over Lettuce Room E, March 9th. The class of 1939 met today to discuss the question of a senior tree. Just as the Denbigh and Pembroke factions were agreeing on a Japanese Cherry, a half-starved Pembrokite moved in bitter tones that the class plant lettuce. Such a gift would save the col- lege so much that eventually it could afford to replace the aforesaid article with something more nourishing. Her tirade ended impres- sively: I am not quibbling. This pierces not only to the roots of the undergraduate tummies, but it also touches the sacred right of human beings to command respect for their wants and opin- ions. The class took over her cry and, led by the invincible Denbigh, drew up a platform abolish- ing everything from Conprehensives to Baccalau- reate. When they had worked through the major grievances back to lettuce, a dissenting voice was heard again. Lettuce, it said, is to the undergraduate as spinach is to Popeye. The accomplishments at this meeting prove that. Denbigh obviously ate its lettuce for lunch whereas Pembroke didn ' t. I beg you, abolish anything else, but don ' t abolish lettuce! Another timid dissenter took courage. Bravo! , shouted Miss Grind. Hurrah for lettuce! Hurray for comprehensives! They ' re spinach to the intellect! Bird ' s Eye View. 10

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A. No. Metamorphosis. I started out as a goddess, tried the woman, and ended up as a professor. Then I became a statue, and here I am a spirit. Q. Oh, I see. Experiments in zoological evolution, found- ed on the Pythagorean theory of metempsychosis. A. That brings me to the Bryn Mawr period. Q. What did you teach? A. They made me dean. Judging from the circum- stances, it was self-evident that I was doomed to be a misfit. For centuries I had been patroness of the domestic lives of women. Now to be made arbiter of their minds (frankly I never thought they had any) — well, to be brief, I found myself incompetent. Q. Yes, it does seem incompatible. What do you think of the modern woman ' ? ' ' A. Oh my, dear Jupiter would never have approved of this emancipation stuff. He always liked home bodies. In memory of him I tried to establish a chair in Home Economics. When the senate rejected the plan I became merely a figure head, — less even, — ' atmosphere, 1 — that ' s what they called us. I heard them say again and again. ' What would Taylor be without the busts. They add such atmosphere. ' Rot! Cheap sentiment, but potent, for now I really am atmosphere! She began to fade. In answer to a desperate Come back! Come back! Would you return for a professorship? , she sighed, Only if I could teach a marriage course. Her noble intellectual brow disappeared, and your re- porter rushed off to see the dean. ANNE CAMPBELL TOLL JULIA HARNED Mrs. Nahm and Prospective Buyers.

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Miss Park BIG-WIGS Mrs. Manning Mr. Hurst our grades aren ' t in yet 11