Harcum College - Purple Patches Yearbook (Bryn Mawr, PA)

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Edztorzal qjzewpomts IELT verv new and lnslgnificant I crept through the halls trying to ex ade the amused glances of the old glrls Each night I crossed off the dag s on the calendar I was homesick and lonely I hated school That was the first week I became bolder and actually conversed with some of the old girls now and then or spoke to them when I met them in the hall One nlght I was so busy I forgot to cross off the dax on the calendar Things certalnlv were brightemng up and somehow O1 other I wasn t so homes1ck Whv I really liked school That was the second Week I dash madlx through the halls almost knocking down those slow old girls I cant be bothered crossing off davs on the calendar any more That IS all foolishness Imagine being homesick at Harcum' I love school This IQ now and forever more O BE an Old Girl' How that thought used to send my expecta t1ons bounding up to the heights' I remember the first night of school last year when I thought Harcums Old Girls were the most enviable creatures on earth To them coming to school was llke returning home and treading old familiar ground again To them school was a haven that might be entered with a smile of self assurance and that held fascinating friendships to be renewed To me comlng to school was hke standing on the brink of an unknown and fearful adventure the mvsteriousness of which forced me to clutch my kind room mate s hand and merely peer over the edge of the adventure that the Old Girls leaped 1nto with so much Joy and ease And so that verv first night when I gazed wlth awed admiration on these Old Glrls who could so famiharly greet the facultv with a kiss and could so easllv discuss with them the whereabouts of last year s crop of g1rls I resolved that I would return to I-Iarcum lf for no other reason than the Joy of being a seasoned Old Girl I d1d MV first impressions of the long looked forward to beglnmng 5 I I . . ' Y , as ,' as - 7 ' I ' . ' C6 . ,, 7 . , . 7' 7 1 U I a . . r ' , . I . V , . 7 '- U CC ' S3 5 ' ' 1, 1' , - . - RUTH KNIFE. , . ' 3 ' 9 ' 9 V - 3 . . , U U U . . , . 3 . . 5 , - - - U