LaGrange College - Quadrangle Yearbook (Lagrange, GA)

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Nineteen-Eighteen THE QUADRANGLE Francis Elizabeth Black Calhoun, Ga. Postgraduate Fanny, Sis, Sugar Darlin ' President of Sophomore Class, 1915. President of Irenian Society, 1915. Y. W. C. A. Cabinet, 1914, 1915, 1916. Presi- dent of Y. W. C. A. 1917, 1918. Glee Club, 1915, 1916, 1917. 1918. Secretary of Ath- letic Association, 1916, 1917. Diploma in Voice, 1917. Historian of Senior Class, 1917. Quadrangle Staff, 1917. Business Manager of the Quadrangle, 1918. Man- ager of Thrift Stamp Movement, 1918. My! but she made a classy Joan of Arc the day of the Liberty Loan parade. Fannie rose to the occasion and showed herself no skeleton in armor. Her hat-size, so to speak, moved up about ten notches and her chest expansion increased by two feet. She realized full well that great burden that rested upon Joan s shoulders (that armor must have weighed fifty pounds). We won ' t call it conceit, but it has al- ways been a mystery to us that the very species homo that the Fates shoved into her path, should have looked like her, talked like her, walked like her, in fact liked her (the last we understand). They have violated the prime law of magnetism that Likes repel and unlikes attract. But what can we do? Convince this woman against her mill. She ' ll he of the same opinion still. Mary Mardel Taylor Covington, Ga. Diploma in Expression Mardele, Sis Mardel, Boo ' fui ' A.B. Diploma, 1917. Prophet of Senior Class, 1917. President of Student Body, 1917. President of Irenian Society, 1916. Y. W. C. A. Cabinet, 1915, 1916. Secre- tary Dramatic Club, 1917. President of French Club, 1917. Quadrangle Staff, 1917. Editor-in-Chief of Quadrangle, 1918. Delta Phi Sigma. could sing As Mardel hath sung. And she as I, She might not sing as nUdlty-nell Nor care, nor try. That ' s a Poe way to begin, Mardel, but the public will understand for they are on rear rations, too. Well-fed, well-said. Mar- del has the record — no competition — of sing- ing E above high C with absolutely no ef- fort. So well-formed and delicate are her tones that no human ear has yet been able to note the slightest vibration upon its drum. Mardel, herself, claims that she once sang a duet with a gnat that absolutely tore the house down (gnat-house, I guess). And the miracle of it is that singing is not her forte at all. Just hear her read, and well — an- other volume begins.

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THE QUADRANGLE Nineteen-Eighteen Clara Josephine Evans Walnut Grove, Ga. Diploma in Home Economics June ' I reman Society. K. K. Club. If you really want to know this maiden ' s sha} dove (Roosevelt French) just hang around the Domestic Science kitchen some afternoons and have her toss you a chicken croquette on a hot roll out of the Domestic Science window. If they prove to be too rich for you, you ' d die happy with a smile on your lips. Man without a cook, take no- tice! Even if she divorced you because a lemon pie had alienated your affections, she could make her living as a modiste for the royalty. (Oh, I forget they are rather passe). Well, anyway, she could design Uncle Sam ' s costume and an everyday and a Sunday one for Liberty. Mary Lizzie Wright Elberton, Ga. Diploma in Piano Jimmie Vice-President Senior Special Class, 1918. Secretary of Y. W. C. A. 1916, 1917. Secretary of Mezzofantian Society, 1915-16. Lierman Club, 1916, 1917. K. K. Club. At one time in Mary Lizzie ' s life, if Shy- lock had asked her for a pound of flesh, it would have been a modest request, and one immediately granted. She got hold of Madame Somebody ' s method and now has been reduced wonderfully. She and Clara have been the guardian angels in charge of the flag. We wonder upon whose shoulders this mantle will fall. But Mary Lizzie is a saucy angel, and that may be because her wings have not reached full growth. Should you cross her thresh- old unannounced, you would be lucky to es- cape un-hatted, un-collared, un-tongue-ed !

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THE QUADRANGLE Nineteen-Eighteen Senior Class Prophecy HE SUMMER following my graduation, I went home with the ardent desire to raise a war garden. I became very much interested in my garden and during a season of long drought, I was forced to consider means of irrigation. In the solv- ing of that problem, I inadvertently stumbled on an invention which I thought might aid in destroying the German U-boats, but I can not disclose its nature for fear I might be considered unpatriotic. Being assured of the practicability and success of this by several friends, I was urged to take it to Washington. After having gained admission to several men, big in the affairs of the nation, I was permitted to see Edison and remained closeted with him for several hours, discussing the invention, which he received enthusi- astically and seemed to think would speedily end the war. I was about to go when, recognizing a scientific genius in me, he said, By the way, I ' ve been working on an in- vention that might interest you. He showed me an instrument, a sort of telescope, through which one could view the future and offered to let me experiment with it. Hav- ing consulted me as to the period of time I wished to gaze through it, he focused the in- strument on the year nineteen twenty-eight. I found that world peace had been brought about largely through my invention and I naturally wanted to know first what had become of Germany. I saw all Berlin draped in U. S. flags and the governor, newly appointed by the President of the United States, was coming into office. As long lines of automobiles followed by U. S. soldiers appeared, the band struck up the Star Spangled Banner and the people rose to their feet with enthu- siasm. The line halted, the door of the foremost car opened and a low, severely dressed woman got out, ascended the platform and began to speak. In the fervor of her speech, she turned and with an emphatic gesture knocked the man at her right out of her chair. This gesture was sufficient to tell me that the governor of Germany was none other than Maude Harris. I noticed posters, flags and inscriptions everywhere, saying that the President of the United States had chosen Governor Harris to administer the affairs of state because of the wonderful success she had achieved in handling the turbulent stu- dent body at LaGrange College, the foremost institution for the education of young women in America. Seeing Maude in that prominent position made me anxious to know what had be- come of my o ther classmates. I knew Mary Connally had gone to France as a Red Cross nurse soon after graduating, so I focused the instrument on Paris. Here I found her in a beautiful and richly decorated room, the center of a brilliant and animated con- versation with the public men of France. Holding just such court reminded me of Mad- ame de Stael, of whom I had studied in History under Miss Vaughan, and on looking further, I found that I had made a very good comparison for Mary seemed very influential in shaping the affairs of France. Before shifting the scene from Paris, I looked again and saw the crowded streets of the shopping district. Attracted by one of the most pretentious shops on Rue de la