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

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THE GYM Lest we forget, or lose our Freshmen Handbooks sometime between now and the next time we return to Bryn Mawr ' s velvet campus, let ' s record for pos- terity and all our numerous children some of the aca- demic points on campus. Dalton for instance housed the first year Biology course. The wooden lecture room was most familiar to all those who were trying to pass off somehow the science requirement. You could spot the Chemists in a large gathering of people by their bronzed faces and hardy complex- ions — acquired while fighting their way across the campus in all kinds of inclement weather to Park Hall. If the trip to Science Building didn ' t get them, the acids were sure to. The geologists looked sturdy too because of the same long trek. It wasn ' t sulphuric acid which was their alternative hardening element but the field trips. Goodhart loomed up large as you approached the campus. The only time that Goodhart really was in its element was when it was arrayed for some large academic function; flags waved from every flying buttress. The whole cam- pus was as festive as a medieval tournament when a graduation or May Day rolled around. One expected professors to appear in 13th Century armour, with undergraduates waving their silk scarfs. Frequently and sometimes oftener, we could be found at the library. Often we felt like cows in a stall; books piled up, and a wooden partition between us and our neighbors. There is one spot at Bryn Mawr that can never be forgot- ten: Taylor Tower, seen as we passed through the large Library doors. There was Taylor clock silhouetted against a sky with stars and a cold or spring moon. You seemed stationary. Be the truth known; it was quite the contrary. We of 1945 have passed to be forgotten with the rest; the old clock remains to mark for other undergraduates the swift passage of time. DENBIGH Page ten

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si P — ss ||I gi BB Egg «Sif EEf IB? SSSB ESSE SS SSS£ 1: Modern versus Baroque Rhoads was fastidious. Candle light wouldn ' t find its place in Rhoads as it would in some of the older, darker paneled halls. But its casual impersonal atmosphere was at times like a cool hand on a brow fevered by too many exams, long papers, and people. Rhoadsians will tell you that with the passing of the years, Rhoads atmosphere is becoming firmly established, and they will take you out and prove this conclusively by the ivy that is making its slow determined way up the side of the building. Remember when we ar- rived Freshmen year the little green stuff hardly reached above our ankles. Now it is way over our heads. The Rhoads terrace was a delight in fall and spring. Bridge after dinner in the cool outdoors with floating music from the smoking room was the Balm of Gilead to us as weary seniors studying for comprehensives. Merion Hall is very old and very wise. We took from it long talks way into the night and felt mellowed by its mood. It was also a very challenging hall — the rest of the campus trembled when the Merion Ghouls made their way onto the hockey field or basketball court. And so we have remembered them all. We have had to throw out all our old, accumulated, addressed note-paper and are about to change residence. But in many moments it will seem as if we are still living in the gool oF halls . Park Hall and the Fountain in the Deanery Garden Page nine

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