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

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MAY DAY Mimetic Magic Then came the magnificence, the glory, and the hard day-labor of being a senior. We saw comprehensives looming on spring ' s verdant horizon; and were sorry that our eyes were open. We ran things in a grand style, and some of us were most effective air raid wardens, though no bombs fell. But we didn ' t really feel as if the last day was near, until May Day, like a beribboned hoop, rolled round. Before, we had cursed it as the invention of the Seniors, who received flowers and two breakfasts, made the whole

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STEPSINGING at Willkie Clubs in Philadelphia and vicinity. But even after election we continued this national consciousness. The proximity of the war began to stir us to action. During the winter the students and faculty presented two ambulances to the British. Defense work was begun too; first aid and auto mechanics courses were given to a small group. Late that year the Alliance sprang into being. Politics, war, defense, preparedness were on everybody ' s lips. In theory we did not sleep. That was the year we had a wonderful time yelling about no Thanksgiving vacation. Our year too we went abroad at home, scatter ' ing to colleges all over the country. But in spite of this disturbing ele- ment, we carried on Junior traditions as usual. We elected our officers with great pomp and looked for- ward to being Seniors with a glint in the eye. There was a young Democrats group, too. MARY BROOKS HOLLIS

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MAY DAY ' For I ' m to be Queen 0 the May. college reel hectically around their maypoles, and dispensed hoops and sticks with an annoying air of noblesse oblige. But May Day, we find, is a final fling. The band plays, as it had for our first Parade Night — but now the animals aren ' t coming in, but going out, two by traditional two. The underclassmen look carefree, but we sing louder. We are the center of attention — but not, we know for long. Even May Day assembly and the first class after the jubilation have lost their former sting of anticlimax. And we think that perhaps it might have been wonderful to have given Big May Day after all.