Girton School - Girtonian Yearbook (Winnetka, IL)

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THE GIRTONIAN I3 Oh Traveller, in whose breast stirs deep desire To gaze upon these regions of the School, To share their joy or hear their sad laments, A scene of woe at first before thee lies. The path to Girton is a Stream of Tears, A wail of: Styx, O, mournful, tearful Styx. Comes shuddering o'er its waters from the boat Whereon grim Charon, sometimes miscalled Brand, To Girton's portal bears the student on, And claims his fee. And yet from o'er the rush Of tears down-splashing, sounds the loud lament Of souls that wander on the farther bank, And wail and gnash their teeth, and cry aloud: Our names are on your lists-the Applicants Are we that wander ever on these banks, And plead to cross to fair Elysium. And still as to the portals wide we pass We hear afar their cries and tale of woe. But stop-by Pluto's dreaded power, What awful thing is this, that would fright hence The entering girl? A god he seems, in form, But that three heads he has of wondrous kind. The one hangs forth its tongue and for home-cooking Forever cries, another muttering growls: Thou shalt or Thou shalt not, but mostly Knot. VVhile yet the third sheds bitter, silent tears And sometimes moans of friends and home and light. 'Tis Cerberus-he who guards the iron gates The faithful slave of Pluto and his power. But let not his three heads affright you hence From Girton's gate, far iiercer is his bark Than is his bite, press onward, brave of heart, A way there is, but cast this sugared cake To slake his hunger, this the boon they call Their Senior Privileges that they give To those who Elysium's joys and glories know. But now the spacious portal open lies And look:

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THE GIRTONIAN Freshmen MARION OSBORIXE Vice Presiden EILLEEN ARMSTRONG JULIE CAHN LUCILLE CALISCH MARGARET CLINCH ISABEL GILMORE RUTH JENKS ALICE LEEPER MARGARET IXQAHIN ISHBEL MACLEISH ONA MCEACHRAN ELSIE MEYERS JOSEPHINE NIOORE DOROTIfIY STANHOPE KATHERINE SPIEGEL STELLA TAYLOR CATHER1NE XVIGHTMAN - President and Treasurer - Secretary