Vassar College - Vassarion Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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A.A. Ojjiccm: Rosalie Thorne '40, Vicefljresidentg Hilda Sizer '40, Chairman of the Outing Club, Comfort Cary '40, President, Sylvia Taft '41, Secretary, ,Ioan Paterson '42, Treasurer. You have no doubt heard about the increase in Vassar girls' waist and ankle measures since 1880, or whenever it was that the gym department became inf terested in such vital statistics. Well, here on these pages you have one of the causes. Athletics . . .how we love them, some of us. The seniors were the first class to have been exonerated, after only a twof year period of trial, error and fundaf mentals. Swimmingfcutters, basketballf cutters, nonfqualified bowlers and archf ers, and badminton reluctants rejoiced, but there were those who struggled on. There are those, as you see, who are willing, even eager. The Cuting Club station wagon, that gladsome vehicle, bears them about the countryside on weekfends. They are seen to leave, their 20 yellow chariot laden with skiis. They are seen to return, sometimes a trifle wearily, but always with a rugged glow which bespeaks good health, good times, and great good stamina. The wagf goners are a minority, and their waggoning cannot be enjoyed forever. On weekfdays, therefore, they and others of athletic persuasion stride about campus clutching hockey sticks, or float in that nebulous vessel, the Vassar yacht, which is said, but never seen, to sail upon the Hudson. Those who relish cold water in November and bef 4:40.

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shopped, judged the taste of Willwzir's, f..s,1,-fn,,.+A,J Aan ,..-.A,.A..- ,L'T3- ,i C un 1 mic, cuvcteu tue mwcatcim U1 KCUQLQ' HECK. In October and November our own entertainers provided free added atf tractions. The juniors' party for the freshmen gave us all an uproarious lair with fascinating booths, and crowned the evening with that masterful mellerf drammer, 'LThe Drunkard's Reform . Soph Party outdid itself in caricaturing life at Vassar as a freshman first meets it. The members ot' the audience relived the dawn of their own experience at Vassar, viewing syrnpaf thetically the struggle of' Phoebe the Freshman, her tribulations with angel robes at the gymnasium, with scales at the doctor's ofhce, and with the card catalogue at the library. Philaletheis inaugurated the year of its own Seventyf Fifth as it had inaugurated so many years, with the best First Hall ol' which it was capable. Phil limml Katlieriiic Dain '-10. llrcsulciit. Rosalind liradkin '40, ,lane O'Coniior '41, lTUIAi1fl1YSP1XK'.lli'-ll.X7.llCI'lC Vondcrf muhll '4il. Almira lioril A-10. lflecta llru-li '-10. Aiiiiv llcnney '-10. Rachel Compu '40, Nanci' Vvlulcntt '-ill, l,yili.i Vwlclls '-12. litfsry l'li'isli'I' '4ll. ln collaboration with Bard College, it presented a thriller called Murder Has Been Arranged . The audience was receptive, horrified, and dumbfounded. After so many killings, dancing with normal nonfhomicidals was a great ref lief. We appreciated Philaletheis and our membership in it. We knew we belonged and we decided to become active, to build a set, collect some props, or maybe swing spotlights for its next performance.

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FUND.-X MIENTALS yond, celebrate their exuberance with ceremonies like Swupper, which begins in the pool and ends with sandwiches in the game room. The OutingfClubbers, the yachtsf women and the Swuppers have already been through the cocoon stz1ge.Working backwards in their developmental hisf tory, we find that they all originated as very new and unfundamentalized fresh' men. Even as the least of us, they had to blow into the lung capacity machine, and take motorfability tests. They took A SVVUPPER swimming tests too, and no fooling about it. She who cannot swim, must, at least diplomatically, sink. Unless, of course, she can develop a sinus complaint. , 'Na 21