Scripps College - La Semeuse Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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pression that Scripps was now a college. All we needed was a fourth class and Dorsey Hall to complete it. Cur Iunior year saw another devastating inroad on our popula- tion, and we lost Bookie and Mollie. But Bookie is with us in spirit and may return soon with her small daughter to visit, and Mollie is back this year going about her business as efliciently as ever. In spite of these voids, as Iuniors we found ourselves building a bonfire to impress the other classes and we were feel- ing a little cocky about being upper classman in a whole college and free to have other interests than that of passing compre- hensives. Being a Iunior has much of the same allure as being a Freshman. It has a peculiar experimental interest and is less diffiisely cultural than the pursuits of' a Sophomore. We diverged in major interests as we had parted Hom Clark Hall to other regions at the end of our Freshman year. Extra- curricular activity also had become by this time a considerable factor in our lives, though We had always moved fill'I1lELll'C for dances. The Scripture with Frannie and Peg was launched on its early mimeographed career. The Siddons Club gave admir- able promise and Nell and Chemmie produced puppet shows all their own. The Polity Club, with Iune and Ieannie as ener- getic members prospered, and some of our pinker contempor- aries started an L.l.D. discussion group, with Ianie becoming pinker and Finally going to Russia to investigate. Student gov- ernment got in occasional jams until all was made beautifully lucid by a Forum on the subject, for which we were all aroused. Now we are older, we think with much yearning of our care- Hee youth when we didn't have to bother our little heads about such things as baccalaureates and graduation, when we could sit quietly and blink like a toad at the grim realities. But then, as Seniors, we have attained the pernicious habit of tea in the commons, blessed with the presence of Mr. Appleton as guid- ing spirit. Iune as the president of our student body has got us 52

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SENIORS ENIORS! It seems that we are Seniors. Graduations, like weddings and funerals, are unavoidable, and since Dr. Alexander's happy idea of graduating us on the install- ment plan does not appear feasible, we shall all be dumped at once on an unsuspeeting world. If we could be quietly let loose in the depths of African jungle or on a lone promontory of Tiera del Fuego, we should be, perhaps, less noxious. But here we are feeling ever so important, and what can we do but talk about ourselves. We are, after all, the second graduating class, and we have leht a few traces of our presence in removing the new look from the antiques, dropping ink on rugs, and contrib- uting a few gray hairs to our estimable professors. Possibly they will sigh when we depart-with relief Since the E111 of 1928, when we arrived in clouds of dust and flies, with a gangling, callow, eager aspect, untroubled by our later wisdom, we have seen steam shovels, house mothers, con- freres, skunks, trees, even a professor of two, come and go. We have battled with metaphysical problems, and fi-om Fresh- man philosophy class these symposia were continued in the deepest recesses of Clark I-Iall. Not much bothered by the pres- ent alumnae, the first class, we settled down, at length, to a little correlation and cramming and culture. My, how we cor- related contrapuntal music, the American frontier, Isaiah, and artificial parthenogenesis of the sea-urchin and his friends. With sobs and tears we sorted out those of the largest size to brave the rigors of the Sophomore year. We lost some Tonies and Kays but came back with the happy prospecft of annoying new Freshmen. These young things were started out properly attending classes in Balch Hall, clad decorously in all that could be desired in the way of daytime apparel, notably black stock- ings and green ribbons. Ellen Browning Hall added to the im- .51

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saE:ly through the Fifth year of the college, and Ieannie with dilhculty, has herded us to class meetings and found us a pecu- liarly intractable group. We have always been a class of individuality. Wlletller we were 'gconditionedn that way by our long months alone as Freshmen in Clark I-Iall, or whether we M ust grewl' like Topsy, is hard to determine. Perhaps we Heel that there is something almost as distinguishing about belonging to the Second Class as there is to the First Class. For we have always been the class for experimentation. When a method did not work as it should with the First Class, we were the ones who bore the brunt of seeing what would work. ln spite of being a group of distinctly different individuals, we have worked together as a unit with greatest ease when the occasion demanded. We recall the nights we spent huddled to- gether over the coflte cups in the Clark I'-lall browsing room. And the grand co-operation we displayed when called upon to entertain the awe-inspiring Sophomore Class with a May Feteg the great ease with which, in a compact body accompanied by dishpans and trumpets, we woke the whole campus that they might know we had a bonhre. We have laid our foundation. Now at graduation we realize what the word Commencement really means. Wlmeii we meet for the last time as a class in caps and gowns, receive degrees, and realize we have become Alumnae, we will bear with us a deep sense of regret that these years are over, and a deeper appreciation of all that we have gained here. 53 .