Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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and she steams into the hall 'mid shouts of joy from the excited crowds. But alas! she is doomed to disappointment again. The door is shut; the roll is called. When in after years she appears on the stage as Madame Swellico, the great soprano, will she interest the American public as she did long before as the tardy Miss Quick? Of all peculiar specimens that may perchance be found. Within the Woman's College or within the world around ; She is the most peculiar, of whom I wish to speak. Some people call her gloomy, some, say she is a freak. But when I tell you that she lives up in a higher sphere. And that the ideal of all things is to her heart most dear. You will not wonder that she calls college a dreary place. When mathematics and Alt Deutsch ” come staring her in the face. Among our number is a member of the Faculty, full professor in Sociology, although her assistant usually occupies the professorial chair. She . was procured from Columbian College, transported with great care, and now occupies a conspicuous position in our museum of natural curiosities. Only the doc- trine of the Trans- migration of Souls can explain one of her • most • salient characteristics the desire to hug most violently the people of her acquaintance. ft OlCITjAE .ARY With the exception of one adorable a curly-headed giant — she scorns the genus homo, and has herself undertaken to practice in one of their most well beloved professions, in order the more readily to dispense with them. If she overwhelms her patients as she does the members of her class, by the sheer force of a mighty enthusiasm, it is predicted that she will either kill or cure at once, there can be no middle course.

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Among our best works of art was a painting of Hati Tomi Sau, Japanese historian and poetess singing her latest epic “But-Ti.” She is clad in her favorite costume of scarlet and cerise satin. Her blooming appearance is caused by much out-door exercise and a strict adherence to the rules of health as laid down in the Home C ” circular. This pic- ture is offered as a prize to the senior who retires earliest at night. Circulating through the halls never far from this painting is one evidently destined for Mt. Hope. She neither strides nor floats. Hers is not a majestic grace but with not more than two steps she can safely clear any distance between her position and that of a mem- ber of the Y. W. C. A. She heeds not the outward tendency of the ends of her gown, nor the backward tilt of her cap, but with fierce determ- ination and a wild look in her eye, she flies about the halls a veritable ship of night. What is she muttering? German poetry ? No, not this time. “ Important meeting meeting business meeting must have song-books must have five cents—five cents five cents—ja, ja—Spatzchen,- Katzchen — five cents ja, ja. We began our career in our own minds the night of the Senior banquet, when our minds were fully impressed by the uninterrupted vision of the dignity which next year we should wear. Since September, we consider that we have rapidly acquired all the graces which, as seniors, we are supposed to possess. Our dignity consorts well with our years, but, like Moses of old, our sight is not dimmed nor is our natural force abated. As a proof of this let us describe to you a scene of almost daily occurrence. Wind blowing a gale -people hastening to their morning work. Will she make it? Two minutes of nine and five blocks to go. Swaying from side to side with flaming cheeks and heaving breath, desperately she pushes on. Spectators cheer her as she sweeps by like a loco- motive, her magenta ribbons, like danger signals, streaming in the wind. The door is reached

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This curiosity was lately acquired from the class of ’96 and still bears traces of her former unfortunate surroundings. She evinces a lingering fondness for the chem. lab., where she has often been found filtering, evaporating and quantitating as late as 6 p. m. Among her most noticeable characteristics is the irremediable habit of drinking tea, in company with a select circle—“students” of mascu- line gender preferred; for J. H. U. is the shrine at which she bows, and, in turn, to her as Mother Confessor, all woes are confided. Among our most talented members is one who divides her time between two occupations —cutting “soc” and chasing the members of '95 to relieve them of any small change they may happen to possess. She has even been known to heartlessly extract one last nickel from an unlucky wight. So fleet of foot is she and so strong of arm that no victim ever escapes her. Athletics is her major study, and we may yet hear of her as the champion lady foot-ball player—the lady Sandow. An • A is for dignified Anna. Now feasting on intellect’s manna. Naught she asks but a book. And a small, cozy, nook Right beside her Edith to scan - ah ! We also have a novel, full of harmless jokes, with the addi- tion of a little useful information. It is well suited to the feeblest intellect, and the weakest mind. It contains items of interest for those who would dine out every Sunday, or shine in society. It is also an excellent guide-book to Mt. Vernon Place Church. Is especially recommended for the melancholy and frivolous. The book is gotten up in blue and brown, and makes an appropri- ate graduating present. Send orders to Tuttle Publishing Co., Newark, N. J. Our last is a very extraordinary specimen. It has been noticed that it is not bilaterally symmetrical; that is, that the podia are different in shape, one being pointed, the other square. This difference brings out a strong characteristic; for there seems to be epic poet has further described he JO