Manhattanville College - Tower Yearbook (Purchase, NY)

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Left to right : Pat Coffey, Ellie Carr, Jody Casgrain, (chairman), Mary Ann Roney. Isabel Casgrain, Dorothy Murray, Pat Norton, Pat Skakel. Student Government ALTHOUGH at heart they really would not have it otherwise, there are times when Student Government must deplore the fact that man was horn a “social animal.” Theirs is a Jekyll and Hyde ex¬ istence. Though never quite the average campusite, they live in a human, humorous imitation of her until it is time for “those who wish to check in for demerits —or the eight-thirty bell. Then because we saw in them the look of a leader and elected accordingly, they become apart; become Student Government. Theirs is the supreme art of the tactful “we,” the preference for suggestion rather than demand. We like that subtlety of command, and it works. Perhaps it works also because we like Student Government, whose members we can forget to call leader because we ' re so busy calling them friend. 16

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MANHATTANVILLE has included more in our schedules than study. Actually, our committees, clubs and councils are a sort of organized escape from the tyranny of classes. They are work but a change of pace in work. The murmur of voices in the Assembly Hall, the slap of a paint brush on a wet flat in the Little Theatre, the oddly glowing melodies of the chant, the clean crack of a hockey stick and ball, and the many identifying sounds at one-ten and five and seven-fifteen evidence the turn of students to those activities which interest them in a special way. These are an important phase of our college life for there is opportunity here, and talent and achievement.

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Left to right : Janet Reberdy. Tese O’Reilly, Kay Norton, Jean Ellis (chairman), Jeanne Plante, Jody Casgrain, Joan Murphy. W elf are THE Welfare Committee is a group of delegates representing the student body and the faculty in equal proportion, whose aim is to control the extra-curricular activities of the college and to determine collegiate standards in matters of taste and social intercourse. It is the committee notorious for that certain well-known device, the persistent “social censure.” It is one of the reasons why moccasins do not appear at dinner, and spectators do — why even pre-war gum is, paradoxically enough, more advantageous in its wrapper than out. It is not the iron-dynasty of a few budding Emily Posts, Jr., but the consensus of the college opinion of what we want Manhattan- ville to be, a place where the best is never too good and anything less is never quite good enough. 17