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T H E A U R O R A Thirty-three CATHERINE DAWSON JOSEPHINE BERG BERNADINE DITTER BERYL MONDOR ANNA MARY DEVLIN J OSEPHINE BERG HELEN BARRETT JUNIOR CLASS - - PRESIDENT - VICE PRESIDENT - SECRETARY TREASURER - CLASS REPORTER MOTTO I n this sign we conquer, M CM XX V FLOWER Sunburst Rose COLORS Shell Pink and Gold ROLL CALL JOSEPHINE HOGAN ELIZABETH KELLER DORIS CUILLIER ALBERTA KELLER CATHERINE DAWSON ADELINE KORESKI ANNA MARY DEVLIN MARIE LANDRY BERNADINE DITTER BERYL MONDOR MARGARET DITTER OLAVIN PARADIS MADELINE DOYLE HELEN ROULEAU JANE FORTIER MARION SKINNER VIOLA GAUDETTE MONICA SHANAHAN
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Thirty-four T H E A U R O R A THE UGLY DUCKLING October was just beginning to don its somber, autumnal robes, and the colleges were throwing open their doors to the boys and girls whose ambition it was to drink deeper of the wealth of learning. A new girl had come to Tildon College, and had registered as a Junior. Now the entry of a new girl into a class of forty should not have caused any ripple in the daily routine of college life. But this girl was an unusual one. She was tall, ungainly, wore spectacles, and, at their best, her clothes looked seedy. Worst of all, from the day of her entrance, she led in all of her classes. The boys in particular resented this, and they were determined not to stand by and let defeat hang a crepe on the laurel wreaths which had been theirs in the past. But strive as they would they could not win, and in every contest Anna Maunhay, the new pupil, was victor. Anna Maunhay had worked and studied very hard to win the scholarship which admitted her to Tildon College. A college education had been her ambition, her dream, her life goal, but now that she was really within the hallowed precincts of a college, and her desires were seemingly gratified, she began to realize that a great void .had come into her life. Try as she would, Anna could not make any friends among the student body. True, her shyness and reticence, made it hard for her to mix with new people, but at home she had many friends, why couldn't she make friends here? One day, when she was in the library, she overheard a conversation which explained her difficulty. What a self-sufficient, homely, goody-goody girl, Anna Maunhay is, anyway. Why, she never utters a word of slang, and she does not even use powder to doll up that ugly face of hers. When she walks she looks as though she wanted to tread on every one, and here, I've drawn a picture of her nose. Anna Maunday, such a name, and she is the girl I am to take to the Junior's Halloween Party. Now, I want you fellows to- Anna quickly left the library, her cheeks burning and tears of indignation streaming from her eyes. She might have heard more had she listened, but what she did hear was a sufficient explanation of her unpopularity. Every year the Juniors gave a Halloween party. It was the one big social event of the year. When the party was being planned, some of the girls expressed their sympathy for Anna. They knew that the only thing she had to wear was an old faded yellow silk gown, so behind their invitation to her lay the hope of her refusal to attend the class function. But Anna did not refuse, and so her name was placed with those of the other girls, to be drawn by the boys as partners. When Anna left the library, she sought a secluded spot on the campus, and there she sat and wept. In this sorrow she forgot everything else. If she had only known that the students scorned her sol The tears trickled through her fingers and fell on her lap. Suddenly she felt a hand laid on her shoulder. Anna looked up and saw that her Latin teacher, an elderly lady with gray hair, was gazing pitingly upon her. Somehow, and before Anna realized it, she had blurted out the whole story. The Latin teacher, Mrs. Ulcan, patted the girl's dishevelled hair, and as she did so, she stopped to admire the chestnut frame it made around Anna's face. When Anna arose, she smoothed back her hair, put on her glasses, and straightened her ill-fitting dress. Mrs. Ulcan noticed the change in Anna's appearance, and after a few words of kindly encouragement she invited the girl to take tea with her that evening. During supper a conspiracy was planned between Mrs. Ulcan and Anna. During the following week Anna visited Mrs. Ulcan frequently, and when she went she usually carried a parcel. The great night came. The hall blazed with lights, a babel of voices, vied with the orchestra. The first dance was about to begin, when George Alrit entered, his face beam- ing and his cheeks ruddier than usual. While he was elbowing his way to the cloakroom he met his friend, Brown. Say, old fellow,'i he whispered, see my luck. When I went to bring the mud fence to the dance, lo! she had been transformed into a fairy. Just then, the door opened, and a slim, graceful, figure, clad in shimmering yellow silk and lace, hovered in the doorway. All evening the girl in yellow silk was very popular, and not until the dancing was over and the time to unmask had come did the Juniors of Tildon College realize that the beautiful stranger was Anna Maunhay.
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