Scripps College - La Semeuse Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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FACULTY DINNERS EDNESDAY nights in the dormitories mean a little more careful grooming than usual for dinner, and guests, and coffee in the living room afterward. For Wediiesday is the night We enjoy the Presence of our proges- sors at dinner in the halls. Facing the faculty across a candle-lit dinner table is vastly different ftom facing the faculty across the lecture tables in barren classrooms. It is one of' the Privileges that we enjoy fiom the intimacy of' a small college. There is something delightfully informal about piloting a Professor into the dining room and discovering his Potentialities for repartee. One need never fear shop-talk, but rather acharming friendliness that makes further classroom encounters more Pleasant. Twice a year, belimre Christmas vacation and just before the summer vacation begins, there are faculty dinners in the halls which are very formal and most impressive. It is at these dinners that our carefillly preserved party mannersn are on display, and we entertain our distinguished guests with all the formality of full dress and special food. 37

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enthusiastically received. Margaret Williams and Margaret Isenberg as tango dancers were also a special Heature. Besides the money made Hom the sale of tickets, food was sold during the evening, and cigarette girls passed through the crowd with their trays. Proceeds from the evening netted the Scholarship fund at least three hundred dollars. This sum was added to the three hundred and sixty-eight dollars raised last year by the group of Marlborough alumnae here. The Marl- borough girls turned the money over to the student body this year, on the condition that Hve hundred dollars or more be added to it. Other means of raising money for the worthy cause this year have included the concert given by Miss Doris Kenyon and the travel talk on the Orient by Mrs. Kellogg. Miss Kenyon pre- sented a dance-drama program with interesting costumes and folksongs, while Mrs. Kellogg showed her own personal mov- ing pictures of a tour of the East, giving glimpses of things not often seen in travel pictures. Added to these sums, the Alumae aided the student body by a lecture at Bridges Hall, at which they presented Dr. Millikan of Cal-Tech. Other years, Scripps has demonstrated its charitable spirit by one large carnival held in the spring, which meant a great deal of work for those in charge and their committees. It has been proved this year that smaller events, and more of' them, are as successful, and may be undertaken without the gargantuan effort of transforming the whole campus into a Eur-grounds. 36

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TEA IN THE CONINIONS COMMUNALLY SPEAKING OUR olclock . . . tea timel Although tea is served every aRernoon in the commons room Hom three-thirty to Five, not including Saturdays and Sundays, the afore- mentioned hour seems to be the most Popular. Then it is that Miss Lay begins to refill the cookie trays, and Miss Arnold gets out more cups and saucers which she carehilly counts in order to assure herself that there will be enough for the four o'clock rush. YV hen lvlrs. Blaisdell serves tea, she is always to be found brewing large Pots of suflicient strength Har the four o'clock bustle. Ar this Eital hour on Mrs. Snider's tea days, she is seen re-arranging the sugar and cream and lemon tray. for these Havorings are always in great demand. The institution of tea at Scripps was begun in the first years of the college when tea was served in the Toll I-Iall browsing room on Sunday afternoons. Later at the suggestion of Mrs. CliHon, who was then Ellen Browning, house mother, tea was served in the halls for the girls. Witlm the perfection of this sys- tem, there was a rotation of tea-days, tea being served twice a week, but once every two weeks in each hall. When the new library was occupied, the old library rooms in Balch I-Iall were 38