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

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LAST DAY OF CLASSES There are only the last ends to tie — a paper to finish, a qui? perhaps. Compre ' hensives are the reality; and by this time apprehension has made us almost look forward to them. Class Day speeches ring with a reckless defiance; Tree Planting (with or without the aid of Haverford) shows that there is life in the old gals yet. Good-bye Taylor ! is full, not of regret, but of anticipation of the world for which we are leaving it.

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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.

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BONFIRE And Senior Bonfire is an orgy. Flame consumes and fire devours the notes, the papers, the thousand sheets of crabbed handwriting, the dusty relics of a long career. And with the smoke vanish our recollections of halls dark before dawn, smoke in a closed and empty room, and coca-cola whose long vigil has sapped its snap. We remember the sunrises we saw; we forget those hours — those endless hours, when we thought it might never rise again. ELIZABETH KERR