Richmond Womans College - Puffs and Patches Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Afterward For me the world has changer! From gold to grayg Amt faded are the once Fair ffowers of yesterday. Is this the bitter price I needs must pay For that one hour of joy? . . Would I might dream ulwayl If I had never known Such joy-yet stay Memory! 7'hou'rt worth This anguish of to-day! W

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Incidents From a Girl's Four Years of College Life W ICS, I tell it as it oeeurs to me. If in anything you see your own experiences - pictured, just relneniber that you may have been a participant, for it is a true story, and it all happened in our own dear Woman's College. You do not remember by what name you went that first session. You know seniors have a convenient wayof forgetting their first appearance at college. Y In fact we are all loath to look back and-- --see ozlrsels as olllers see us. O yes, the first year you know it all! No one need tell you that you are on the wrong street your first Wednesday. You know it is Broad street, and are not going to let that old girl bluff you. And when finding you strolling leisurely toward Richmond College campus it is useless that they toll you that is Capitol Square. You know it, and they do not want to tell you what you are so sure you know. Thus you find yourself left to plod your first three months alone. But your teachers claim it is best for you to find out things for yourself. Yes, new you fully realize that one rcmcinbcrs better. The first night you arrived! Can you ever forget it? 'Tis after supper hour, and the matron takes you to the dining-room for something to eat. You tell your name, stringing it to its full length, as they call you at home. By the time you have had it llllSlJI'0Il0L1IlC!'ll and asked over several times, however, you are glad to give it in its shortest form. The first night, too, you hasten toward you room, saying to your roommate in the hall you will bring the lamp for her to open her trunk. But when you find your lump with no chimney, and fastened by a long gilt 'I'0ff to the imll, you slip sneakingly back and tell her you think you can help her without bothering about the light. Still, with all this, you put on a brave face, and when several old girls, some unannounced, come into your room, you answer their many questions as to your name, parent, home, post-office, county and state, wondering that they did not learn while studying geography that there was such a place as home. But there is still more to stand when you fail to place correct interpreta- tion upon the various bells, and walk to breakfast at the rising bell. In this, though, you profit by your first morning's experience, and never again are you seen in the breakfast room ahead of time, while often you are glad to get there at all.