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

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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

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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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GARDEN PARTY The strife is o ' er; the battle won. The week before Commencement begun. We fold our hands, we watch underclassmen still studying, we play, we laugh again. We are very mature and poised at Garden Party — we have lost forever the awkwardness of blue -jeans. And the underclassmen feed us water-ice, and we smile.