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Alma MaUt Our Alma Mater sits enthroned Above the hurrying town ; The changeful years have never dimmed The glory of her crown. She keeps the white without a stain, The purple queenly still, While countless hearts look up to her — The College on the hill. A constant throng with backward gaze Pass out the well-known door; The world lets some return again, But mam ' nevermore. Yet though the path winds far from her. Their feet can never stray ; Their Alma Mater guides them still, A thousand miles away. Each year new voices swell her praise, Some well-loved face is gone ; Death calls us to Him one by one, But still the song goes on. As long as Pennsylvania keeps Her watch-fires burning bright, Shall Pennsylvania ' s daughters sing The Purple and the White. Anne Meloy ' 96
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A SIrtbute JEEN MARY of England once said that when her heart was opened there would be found graven deep on it the word Calais. If we could see the heart of our college, we would find it carved with her motto: ' ' That our daughters may be as Cornerstones polished after the similitude of a Palace ' ' ; while on the heart of any one of us, her daughters, we would find cut deep the three little letters dearest to us — P. C. W. These three initials stand for much to us — for remembrances poignant, sweet, which only a word or a fleeting thought may recall — remembrances of the little intimate traditions which have been a part of us for four happy years, remembrances of the school traditions which cling so close around our hearts that their names alone evoke all the happiness they once held for us. Some of these traditions, while of recent origin, have taken so firm a hold that all knowledge of their beginnings has perished; some have grown up with the college, chang- ing their externals from time to time but always conserving their outline; some have altogether perished, but may be revived again — who knows? What memories awake as we recall the Mid-Year Reception and Dance; the Founders ' Day and Commencement Receptions ; the Christmas chapel service with its Yuletide hymns : the Christmas and Valentine dinners with their accompaniment of gifts: the May Queen and her court; the Sophomore Cotillion; the Old English Christmas party; the Christmas play give n by the Dramatic Club ; the Senior play ; the Freshman planting of the ivy and the handing down of the Senior spade which helped so many classes dig their way through college ; Moving-Up Day ; Color Day and the planting of the tree ; the Song Contest ; Matriculation Day; Mountain Day; the Y. W.and Hallowe ' en parties; the House dances: the vesper Easter services; the Glee Club Concerts; Illumination Night; Y. W. on Wed- nesday mornings and Student Government on Fridays; the Day of Prayer for Colleges: the Faculty Music Recital ; the Central Y. W: work ; the May baskets hung on the Seniors ' doors; the singing of the Christmas carols like the waits of old; the sled-riding on the kitchen trays; the birthday cakes and the singing of Happy birthday to you ' ' ; the peek- ing at our roomie ' s date ; the Saturday evening bridge parties; the thrill of a telephone call or of a box from home; the feeds ; the sneaking down into the kitchen on a noc- turnal forging expedition; the solemn moment of the daily chapel service; the old, old songs at table, How do you do, There is a girl who ' s known in these parts, Stand up, Three more days till vacation ; the joy of Going-Home week; the outside dances before the refreshments in order to be in by 12; gathering a complete outfit of clothes from all the girls on the floor ; supporting our sister class ; grousing about the teachers, the work, the food, and everything; nicknaming the faculty: running down to East Lib, to the movies or Reymer ' s or to mail laundry cases ; the homesick freshman ; the eager sophomore: the subdued junior; and the sorrowful senior. P. C. W. has given us all these lovely memories, something which no one can ever take away. What else has she done for us? She has done many things which are so intangible that we can hardly comprehend them. She has given us a broader, more tolerant outlook on life — a gift that is helping women all over the world to get away from their age-old tyranny; she has given us the power of appreciation — appreciation of beauty, of humor, of pathos, of the abstract and the impersonal. In fact, she has increased and directed the desire for the beautiful, which we manifest in common with the rest of our sex. She has controlled and dignified our love of pathos, and has developed our sense of humor, and that understanding of the impersonal and the abstract in which we seem to be naturally lacking. Moreover she has given us an experience which we can never forget: the feeling of esprit de corps, which we may never enjoy again until women as a whole develop this same spirit as men do. What have we done for P. C. W. ? While we were with her we have striven to uphold her honor and mold her character. But after we have left her in order to join the in- numerable throng that keep the Lamp still burning through the centuries, everything we do, every ideal we hold, every influence we exert, should redound to her glory. While we have always been told that our school-days are the happiest, we do not realize this fact until we have put them all behind us. When we have sobbed goodbye to P. C. W. — goodbye to our careless happy undergraduate years, to most of the friends that we have made and the bonds that we have forged — will we not also breathe the ten- der blessing which the word goodbye originally conveyed — God be with you, P. C. W. !
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