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ing, with well timed intervals for quiet and serious think- ing about the future. Initiation into Swarthmore s finest trad.tions was so capably managed that freshmen were heard rejoicing about the glories of college life in the corners of the Managers ' Parlors, up and down Magill Walk, and in the druggie. A couple of the new feminine arrivals carried their rejoic- ing even to the Wharton quad where they settled them- selves for a knitting session and were amazed to find that that was not an old Swarthmore custom. Kind fortune did not subject them to the usual chorus of Fire, and It was Mr. Meier who gently and a little reluctantly re- directed their erring feet in more prosaic paths. Dances were wonderful confusions of names and faces, and an introduction to the Swarthmore hop. Tea at President Aydelotte ' s with an inexhaustible supply of home-made coffee ice cream, and badminton in stocking feet, an in- congruous but e.xtremely delightful combination, indicat- ing the irrepressible spirits of the newly initiated, climaxed three days of newness and fun. The meals with upperclass heroes and heroines who stalwartly or sweetly handed out butter to retiring souls engaged in exhibiting admirable table manners ( Where, oh where, are those verdant freshmen? ) gave the 43 ' ' ers a preliminary glimpse into Swarthmore social life, and a better chance to get acquainted with those senior lumi- naries into whose hands they had been entrusted. Dagny Hoff in her place at the head of one table had to insist that she really wasn ' t a freshman while in another spot the awe-struck new-comers had to be reassured that Chuck Braden was only a senior. High-lighting Freshman Week were the freshman picnic and the veiled rumors of the horrible events to be brought about by the return of the upperclassmen. On that first Saturday afternoon, ' 43 descended upon Crum, recklessly tramping down poison ivy, consuming a huge supply of 10
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FALL ARRIVES and so do the freshmenl When Mortar Board and Book and Key flung open the portals of Parrish to the incoming class of 1943, they had no conception of the overwhelming wave of exuberance and ignorance of the Swarthmoreans whom they were to guide into the paths of academic life. Nor did they fully realize the numbers of this freshman class, the largest in many Swarthmore years, until that first evening ' s gather- mg in the Meeting House. A sea of unfamiliar faces, an ocean of helping hands and a swelling chorus of Hello! May I help you? greeted the class of 1943 and initiated it into the brotherhood of friendship at Swarthmore. It was then that the great strain began. A strain to hear, to see and to think about all of Swarthmore ' s traditions at once — a strain to talk over one ' s past and future with everyone at every meal, the resistance-lowering strain of co-ed tables even at breakfast, of a gay round of dances, picnicking and play- MR. AND MRS. AYDELOTTE
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