Earlham College - Sargasso Yearbook (Richmond, IN)

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. roommate is a great institution. Twenty-five

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it i JLt a. ■ ' 3fe . W i .§ ' ; T Fr» President, Lucile Hiatt. Secretary, Marianna Dickinson. lEaribam Ball tutottt ((kntmtmntt Girls are supposed l always be good, but just to prevent any latent, Eve- like tendency to the opposite, a staunch and vigilant Student Government is maintained in the girls ' dorm. Of course loud noise during study hours, mid- night feeds, surreptitious buzzing would never enter the heads of an Earlham I tall resident, that goes without saying, but, well, it looks better to have some central authority td deal with any ease of manslaughter, arson or movie madness that may arise. Hut this year that central authority has had. as is the ease in Hundy. remarkably little to do. An interesting joint committee composed of members of the Student Councils of both dormitories has been formed under the name of the Inter- Dormitory Committee. This group takes upon its shoulders the regulation of affairs in which residents of both communities are concerned. Their jur- isdiction extends even to the palaces of the silent art over in town and woe be it to the unlucky Freshman who ventures to lead his Earlham Hall friend within those mysterious realms without i .w discretion. Twenty -f ' ' v

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jKnnmmatra From the first anxious inquiry of the just arrived Freshman to the last The words of parting after the fatal day which is at once the Alpha and Omega in Sargasso a student ' s life throughout the course of the four years which intervene, the Roommate, like the poor, we have always with us. Whether designated thus, with a conscious pride, Mother, this is my Roommate — or so, with a masque of brusqueness, Hey. Old Lady, come meet my Dad, — our Roommates have a vital and cherished place in our gallery of College memories. The sharer of our joys and failures; our hopes and disappointments; our umbrellas and handker- chiefs, perhaps; our genial moods and our sudden outbursts — as, when, for 1 ( . 17 instance, we inadvertently stumble over a chair in the darkness; — the one who knows us underneath, and still consents to live with us, — there ' s some- thing in it all which makes a bond of congeniality and good comradeship which is priceless. Who is it knows my flunks and D ' s ? My Roommate Who is the one original tease? My Roommate Who pulls the covers off my bed? And pours cold water on my head? I loiii to shoot him full of lead. My Roommate Who borrows gloves and skating shoes? Who. when I ' m broke, pays up my dues? Who is my antidote for blues? Mv Roommate Where roommates room. Tu entj -six