Columbus School for Girls - Topknot Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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COLUMBUS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Lael felt deeply gratified. Here was her cue for her remark about the stupendousness of life! The world is so big, she said, making her voice soft and appealing, one feels very small and inconsequential. With great effort she repressed a desire to add n'est-ce pas? to her sentence, and then con- tinued, One's little worries and desires seem so trivial. A wave of self-consciousness surged over her and she pressed her foot on the accelerator. You mustn't think that, Jim said, with a misleading seriousness. The things themselves don't mean anything, but it's their relation, their use to you. I sometimes wonder, Lael replied, a little encouraged by Jim's responsiveness, if there can be a God. He must be very cruel. You are-! Lael had a vague suspicion that he was going to say lKy0ung,.77 You are a little cynic. But time changes all things. When you have lived a little longer and seen a little more- He needn't be so condescending! Lael did wish he hadn't said a little cynic. It seemed rather fiippant. Perhaps he was trying to come down to her level! They were almost back. Lael drank in the fresh, fragrant air. It was indeed spring! There's something about this kind of day- said Jim. Lael nodded and smiled at him with evident sympathy. He must realize now that she understood. At last they were at home and Anne was coming out to meet them. It's been great, he said, and I don't know when I've been so uplifted. Lael glanced up at him quickly but he seemed quite serious. So the wanderers have returned. Anne took Jim's arm and fairly snatched him away. Jim smiled goodby at Lael. While she was locking the car, she heard him say: Your little sister's darned sweet-very naive and serious. We had quite an elevating conversation about life and God and all sorts of tre- mendous things. Awfully amusing, but I'm quite exhausted. Lael ran into the house. PATRICIA STEWART, '28 6

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TOP-KNOT, 1928 After Anne and Jim had left for the club, Lael devoted herself once more to the Collected Poems. Ah, the sadness, the exquisite beauty of those lines which he ha-d written, perhaps, to Anne and which Anne could never appreciate! It occurred to Lael that it must be sad for Jim to know that Anne did not understand, did not even feel that Warm emotion which he so vividly described in his The One Before the Last. Lael must show him that she understood, that her very soul cried out for beauty, that her whole being was awed by the very stupendousness of life. But how could she tell him? People in books always read poetry out under the trees in the spring but it Wouldn't be proper to read somebody else's poetry to a poet. She couldn't just tell him when Anne was there. Anne would laugh, and he would too-just because Anne did. Oh dear! Life was so perplexing! If only mother wouldn't make her go to church, she could drive him around town and show him the new clubhouse that was being built. Mother thought it would be very nice for Lael to entertain Jim. A few of Anne's protegees who lived down by the tracks were going to be confirmed and Anne must go to church. When her plan had progressed so far unhindered, Lael became a little nervous. Perhaps, after all, she was a little young for him. But no, people always said she was old for her age. She would risk it. When at last Lael had her hand on the wheel, her confidence was restored to her. Jim was awfully jolly, much like other men, and not at all as she had imagined a poet would be. But somehow Lael could not make herself speak of the spiritual and beautiful as she had planned. It would seem so sort of peculiar to reply to Jimis approval of the new clubhouse With a sweeping generalization on the meaning of life! It's great country up here, isn't it? Do you have a lot of shooting? Lael was amazed. How could he be so casual about killing living things? You don't shoot, do you T' she asked earnestly. I don't see how anyone can. lt's horrible even to think of. She shuddered softly and wondered if she hadn't missed a golden opportunity. Jim was disturbingly sympathetic. I used to feel that way about it, but a man has to shoot. And after all, animals are only a very small part of the World. 5 -.-1'

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TOP-KNOT, 1928 THE NEW SCHOOL The new school has for the past four months been the one al1-absorb- ing topic of conversation! The general plan delights us all. The build- ings are to be of primitive Mediterranean architecture, low and ram- bling, with sloping red roofs, and with white walls enclosing courts with , - - - - W V l- l l l . , -M ir .. , A. 'i V ::-.m 3 I I l qgw - R., -2-, --.CHA iv- nl - ixnbib- I' -V - ,1 i 121' ,:a.H'1Qig'.K: X X sl-.kg : V .lr F ' sf, , 1 -e ,:, '., Qvw gift' QP 9 1, , . ' Q N I '2 - if ll 'fn-H7 '- - .a-'ek 2 7- '.'f? t4 -'13 A .A I 7 .1.ga,. PM-.ar Q I ,QM .. ,. 55 W , 555' i in 'FQ' f, A ' M F, B, ,g is M all 3. Q, lf Jain, c ' v t 'L 1- - - 4 .1 L .-1 .I ' 9 sv, - I -- -- -, ,,,, -,A-4' ' ' 1,444 -A M J gi grgf,Kf? e'f...,L,g-1f3f,,,,.v- an 4.-' '- -,,-,... I -' ,H- . . L: if '1 ' Ns. x- ' - --ea-v ' .1:4..1-l5J ....,.,. - ' , V 1-.ah 4 . -3 ?1'i ' .Q ..',2 -Zig-gg -' 3 'f 'Q -I 3F1 ': 55l :Gaia-1 13.1 L :.5,i ec--.'z-,: - ..- ....,.,q,. 5-- ,, :M gs ,-- A. Aa.. an Ann A - .gr?:,, fx.. J- i , .-L Y l THE GLADDEN CHAPEL fountains and pools, flowers and shrubbery. The windows are to be wide open to the sun and breezeg and the sections of the different build- ings are to be connected with colonnades, so that in passing from one class to another the girls may get into the fresh air. How the younger girls are looking forward to the pleasures of tak- ing part in a morning service held in the Gladden Chapel. How we older girls envy those to come after us who will have their indoor sports in a real gymnasium, with a roof garden where they can play when the ground is too wet or too dusty for comfort! How wonderful it will be 7