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Christmas vacation, agitation was begun for a Freshman Show — ours to be an inaugural ball with an old-fashioned melerdramer the high spot of the evening. The pink handbills put out before the show advertised a bar, a presi- dent-elect, a barbershop quartet, and twenty beautiful girls dancing the can-can. The melerdramer was to be complete with foiled villain, handsome hero, and pretty heroine, and was entitled He Ain ' t t)one Right By Our Nell. The evening itself went off as advertised with the added attraction of a grand march with costume prizes. With the Freshman Picnic and its treasure hunt (treas- ure: 50c), our schedule of class activities for the year was completed and our freshman year almost finished. Sum- mer vacation was here. :!; : HJ The class of ' 42 came back this fall, upperclassmen themselves to look upon a new freshman class and to feel just a little envious. The sophomore year began well. The class dance was most successful, particularly from a decorative aspect. Thursday, December 14, was the class Christmas party, a dateless affair and extremely informal for which the whole class turned out for a good time. Banquet and speeches in the dining room were followed by skits and charades in the Girls ' Gym, square dances, and carol singing all over the campus. It was another mass-action movement of the class of 1942, where every- body comes, everybody participates, and everybody has a good time. 19
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i ♦ 1 it ' 1 if., nj ta. Cl li ■ y- .i - ' ? I ft .JkIHi ■ |:;f ' :i - ' -AoSiT- ® i J ' sr j X CLASS OF ' 42 The class of ' 42 entered Swarthmore on a bright clear day, from all parts of the country. They were welcomed by President Adylotte, acting Dean of Women Phillips, and acting Dean of Men Hunt, and for the duration of Freshman Week they owned the college. Then with the return of the upperclassmen, they were relegated to their proper place, donned freshmen caps and signs, and be- came a class as yet little known and untested. The class was first labeled as class with spirit when one morning the numerals ' 42 appeared large, white, and distinct on the water tower. Tradition had been car- ried through in grand style, although $17.50 was later paid the College for removing the white paint. Their spirit then showed itself in less expensive ways and most effectively in their exhibition at the half time of the first football game. By this time the sophomore girls had inflicted on the freshman girls a week of bright colored hairnets to be worn tied under the chin and with all hair tucked under — a privilege of infliction permitted their superior status. The excitement caused by this arose to such heights that finally it was suggested that the Frosh challenge the sophomore girls to a tug-of-war — the result to determine whether the hairnets should be taken off two days early or worn two days longer. The challenge was accepted, and after ten minutes of valiant struggle in which finally even the boys helped, the bright colored hairnets were untied and torn off. The annuHl male Frosh-Soph tug-of-war across Crum took place not much later on a cold and drizzling Novem- ber Sunday. Who can say now who would have won, which class would h ave proved superior, or what would have happened — if the rope had not broken? But the rope broke and the freshman boys plunged into Crum after the Sophs and into a free-for-all. It was a weary, wet, and muddy group of boys that straggled back to Wharton and a not so weary, but wet bunch of loyal girls ihat returned to Parrish. There remained one traditi(jn as yet unfulfilled, so after 18
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