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Page 92 text:
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MEADOWLANDS AS WE COME up the twisting drive on a warm September day, the doors of college life swing open to admit us. Before us a large brown house looms up, the house where we, as freshmen, will live. . . . Meadowlands. Cold, only living quarters, too large —that is what we think as we arrive. We do not see the gracious friendliness of the open door, inviting us to enter an intriguing home of a bygone age, as we appre- hensively walk up the broad stairs. It is cool inside and surprisingly different. The living room in dark wood and the sudden contrast of the white room make us wonder who built this house. The scarlet coats of the hunting scene are spied and, irresistibly, we are drawn into the green room to see if the scene runs completely around the wall. There is nothing to do but follow from its bright beginning, through the rigors and excitement of the chase, to its quick, almost terrible, end. Although there is the element of the horrible within the scene, yet it is pleasing in its color, action and truth. The fireplace inevitably comes to our notice, large, high-mantled, bringing friendly warmth when lighted. We realize at once how much an integral part of the room it is. Then we remember that each of the rooms we have 88
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Page 93 text:
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seen so far has a fireplace, but none like this one here in the green room. The fascination of downstairs must be put out of our minds as we ascend the broad staircase, reminis- cent of hoopskirts and gentle music. Stopping on the turn of the stairs, we survey the room below. In one sweep of the eye we see the high, strangely-shaped lamp at the foot of the stairs, the round redwood table decorated with flowers, the small desk near the double Dutch door. Then we find our bedrooms, filled with laughing people as we come into them, and we wonder which of these will be our roommates. The bustle of getting ready for dinner, trying to meet everyone at once, coming back from Fanjeaux to get ready for bed, and for the first time having a good look at our roommates is rather exhausting; sleep is welcome. The strangeness of the campus and campus life wears oft after a few days, and we realize what is ours. Meadowlands does not belong only to us, but to the whole school, for all of us meet daily in the assembly hall, where the warmly colored shields of the class windows remind us of deeds done and deeds to come. Marguerite O ' Reilly ' 50 89
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