Girton School - Girtonian Yearbook (Winnetka, IL)

Page 69 text:

THE GIRTONIAN 65 As I pass along the dim highway, pressing forward, eager to overtake these distant Shades in their journey onward, a voice calls me from behind. I turn and see a figure hastily approaching, intent, as she comes, upon a large scroll which she holds in her hand. She greets me with a warm, friendly smile, and eyes that twinkle behind her glasses. At once I feel an almost irresistible desire to confide to her all the history of my journey through the Other NVorld, certain that she will share my sorrows as well as my joys. But as I seek for words to begin, she holds out to me the scroll saying: MFor- sooth, O Pilgrim, lo and behold! And thus I read:

Page 68 text:

64 THE GIRTONIAN A great clamor breaks out, all talking at once, until their shouts re-echo under the vaulted roof of the Judg- ment Hall. It is impossible to hear oneself think. Slowly the crowd passes out thro the doors by which I entered and I am left alone in the deserted hall. I turn to the farther doors, and hastening out, see in the distance the dim figures of those who have just received sentence.

Page 70 text:

66 THE GIRTONIAN The Girton Alumnae Association, Old and New THE Girton Alumnae Association, which began so enthusiastically five years ago, came to a quiet and peaceful end last spring. The reasons for the unexpected result-deplored chiefiy by the faithful few who were struggling to hold the association to- gether-were apparently many, but in the mind of the writer of this article they were really one. Inevitably when a girl leaves school a multiplicity of interests demands her attention, each one more or less signifi- cant and vital in itself. Her life may be lived in college or at home, but if she is a true daughter of Girton she will have more opportunities for self-expression than possibilities of fulfilling the manifold demands made upon her time and strength. She must choose those activities which seem to her most worth while, and to them give of her time. The fate of the Girton Associa- tion was then the common fate of most Alumnae Asso- ciations-it did not offer a vital enough reason for its existence. The members who were in and near Chi- cago met once a year for luncheon during Christmas week-the busiest Week of all the year-for social pur- poses only. At this meeting officers for the ensuing year were elected, dues were solicited, and the meeting adjourned. It is not surprising that those members who live near Chicago could not kindle much enthusi- asm, first in themselves, and then in those at a distance, merely by trying to keep alive a sentiment for Girton School. Therefore the decision was made by those few who could be prevailed upon to -state an opinion, that by its own act the Girton Alumnae ,Association should cease to exist, and thus make way for the for- mation of another association which should be able to cope with the acknowledged difficulties of the situation, with a liberal enough constitution to make it possible