Katharine Gibbs School - Platen Yearbook (New York, NY)

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RETRIBUTION Pacing up and down, back and forth across the dark, narrow cham- ber, she thought, Nothing could be more horrible than this. This is the end. I'll never be able to go on. Outside, the dreary rain descended in a steady drizzle, beating its faint tattoo on the window pane. lf only she had it to do all over again, how different things would be! Oh, she'd been careless in a hun- dred small ways, but to go out that night - that had been fatal! And then, fool that she was, to do it again! She saw in a haze the face of the young ensign. It was a handsome face, with dark curly hair and a crisp grin. But it brought her no pleasure. To have thrown away her whole life, her whole future, for someone so unimportant, so trivial. someone who simply meant an eve- ning's fun. But she must push these thoughts from her mind. It was over now. Nothing more could be done except to be calm, to face it. The time must be almost at hand. The minutes as they passed stretched to hours, centuries. Her nerves were strained to the breaking point. The blood pounded in her ears. Was this strange, floating feeling the pre- lude to insanity? The faint echo of a closing door drifted down the hall. Footsteps! She counted them. One, two, three, four. They came nearer and nearer. They reached the door. There was no escape. The door opened slowly. You may come in now, and I'll give you your marks, said the dean. MARGARET DOYLE LIFE IS IUST A BOWL OF ETC. Etc, says Mr. Webster, is an abbreviation for et cetera which means 'and the rest: and so on: and so forth.' Although this is a schol- arly definition, it seems to me rather incomplete. Take, for example, the word as it is used on examination papers. To the question, Who was George Washington? a student might reply. A man who fought in the Revolution and was one of the thirty-odd Presi- dents of the United States, etc . Such an answer is worth a high grade. First, it gives us the approximate time of Washington's life. Second. it tells us that he was commander- in-chief of the Colonial forces: for anyone with intelligence realizes that only the people in the most important commanding positions are remembered one hundred and fifty years after a war has been fought. Third, we are informed that Wash- ington was one of our Presidents. True, we may not be able to discover whether the writer meant that thirty of our Presidents have been peculiar, or that we have had a few more than thirty of them. But the etc. redeems the entire re- ply. It indicates that there are so many important facts about Wash- ington that it is impossible to enum- erate them all here, and actually should suggest to the examiner that it would be worth his time to read a good biography of the illustrious man. MARGARET DOYLE

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