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

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Editorial . E ARE overjoyed! Not only are we well aware that Spring is very near, but also We have learned that Mrs. Willis is entirely recovered and will surely be with us to make our Spring term doubly happy. ISS BOTSFORD has left us, and we shall miss her inexpress ibly because of her lovable and generous personality. She is living with her brother, who is the secretary of the Alumni Association of Williams College. Our grief in losing her is purley selfish though inevitable. We are sure that this change will make her life more interesting though it deprives us of a teacher and a friend Whom We loved. BETTY DAVIS. Roommates Y ROOMMATE is my Ubest pal and severest criticf' But then, Why not? We have so many things in common. Take for instance, our friends, in and out of school they are the same, our dispositions-hers is calm, self-controlled, mine is the fiery, quick, over-it-in-a-minute type-types of dispositions that go perfectly together. Her economy keeps me from spending all my allowance three days afterI get it. My spendthriftness prevents her saving hers too much for a rainy day. And then, too, at nights, when one gets talka- tive and the other is sleepy. Do you think the sleepy one forces herself to lie awake for hours uttering feeble uh-huhisf' while the other raves on and on about nothing? Not at all. The sleepy one looks over toward the bed of the talkative one and says, 4'Will you kindly stop that jabbering. Iim not listening to a word you're saying. Now please keep still and let me go to sleep. And the talkative one says, Oh, all right. I didn't know you were sleepy. G'night!', You are probably saying, It must be wonderful to get along so nicely with your roommate. Yes it is. Itfs wonderful. But now that I think of it, why shouldnit we? Weive known each other so long. Iive been studying her every mood for so many years. VVhy, I can even read her thoughts at times. No gentle reader, I am not a mind reader. Iim her sister. J OANNE PENDLETON. 5

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Folk fDanee and Song Evening January 28, 1927 PROGRAM Kal The Dance ............, ...... .... T a nish Dance Group Glee Club lbj I've Been Roaming ........................ English Dance by REBECCA TARWATER Soprano-RUTH HELLER lc.l Cornish May Song ..........,........ .... E nglish Dance Group Soprano-PENELOPE TARWATER la.: Fire-flies .........,.........,........4 'b.l Winter ...... ........... . . Caterpillars ............,... . Glee Club Ia. What Child Is This? ......... lb. Danced by SARAH BEESON SOPPHHO-RUTH HELLER icf I Saw Three Ships ................... Danced by BECKY TARWATER SOPFRHO-'RUTH HELLER ' 4 laj Lullaby ............................. lb.l Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves.. . . . fel The Blue Bells of Scotland G-lee Club 5 la.l Wraggle Taggle Gypsies, O ........... Dance Gro up Soprano-PENELOPE TARWATER lb.l Strawberry T air ...................... Danced by AMELIA G-Ross VIRGINIA ROUNDEY Soprano-PENELOPE TARWATER lc.l Where the Bee Sucks ................ y Dance Group SOPPRHO-RUTH HELLER Russian . . .fBohe1nian Russian . , . ,English Garol . Lullaby .............................. French Garol English Q ernian . Scotch English English English

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Turple Tazfches HE question of roommates is a most vital one in boarding school life, and will continue to be, I suppose, until girls are made perfect. This mingling of personalities is like the blending of colors. To pro- duce a lovely effect, they must not be too alike, nor must they be too strikingly different. f However, when we come to school, we have no time to hunt out a personality that becomes us, so we must take what we are given, and eagerly await the outcome, which may be successful or may not. Time alone can tell! But after all, a roommate -is a kind of semi-annual sister, and so if you like her, number yourself among the few lucky girls who are blessed with such a rare gift. Enjoy her during school, for with spring this 'ggemn will be taken from you! On the other hand if you dislike her, do not spend your time telling her so, but with a virtuous understanding, think with pity of the poor souls who must endure a sister always and silently thank the gods that you are spared such a life-time burden! Now I ask you-isnit that sound logic? BECKY TARWATER. ARE or negligence in our speech as well as in any other matter may become a habit. Those about us play a large part in the formation of this habit. For instance, a small child, if he plays with no children of his age but is constantly with his parents and older people, becomes advanced for his age and speaks like an older person. He hears English spoken correctly and imitates what he hears. School can be a place to influence us into a careless sort of slang. In a group made up of so many girls from all parts of the country it is natural that each should exhibit a pet,' expression that she has brought with her to school. Such expressions if approved quickly circulate about a school, until everyone will be joined in the cult,'. These slang express- ions are not seriously harmful, that is, as long as we practice them only at school. But the great difficulty lies in breaking ourselves of the habit after leaving school, and who would really, truly enjoy saying to her mother on meeting her, O, mother, Ilm so glad to see you, and how? JANE PENDLETON. 6