Vassar College - Vassarion Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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e' , I 1 - 3 .1 Q . , . s ' up W lf ff fl! 'Ai ef ' if fl 4 , 4 ,Qi ii, 14 dwtewz We arrived one afternoon late in August, dutifully bringing our white dresses with us. The trees hid the hybrid architecture, and the campus looked very beautiful, very large, and very aca- demic. We were impressed. We signed a hundred cards, and filled out a thousand blanks, and looked at a million happy, poised, glamorous faces. We felt small. There were no curtains in our windows. Why had we decided to be freshmen, anyway? We went to bed. And then it all changed. We knew everybody, and we did everything. We tried out for the Misc and the Chronicle at the same time, with the vague idea of getting scoops for both papers, and piling glory on our heads, we found that our boarding school French still worked pretty well, and that it was beyond human power to memorize the bones of the frog. The mysteries of the note topic were revealed to us, and we amassed thick stacks of notes, and thumbed through our already grubby Form Manual. It was wonderful. We could wear every day the lumberjack shirt we swiped from Brother when he went into the army. There was nobody to make us go to bed, and we soon split up into the ten-thirty and the two-thirty schools. We had a man at Yale, and a man in the army who got a ten day furlough in October, and another man in the navy. We had three big beer parties at the Dutch, and on Friday nights we stayed up until three hav- ing bull sessions with our roommate about Life. We were getting educated. 'a .1 , 5 T T ilfliel T' A 4 W' B ob! l

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Came Brst semester exams, and we crammed ten hours a day. Studying was a nightmare. When we got into the exams, we were amazed to find how easy they wereg and we caught the 5:08 and went home for Christmas to tell our families and friends ' p A A I All About It. The day we came back we screamed and embraced i ' I I f 1 i if our friends with wild joy, since we had been separated for two 2 ily ' ' weeks. We were really home. l il l l My K fl P It was cold. The radiator went on, we discovered, at exactly ' A lit l g . X we Jw' '1- 6:10 A.M. and we slouched deeper 1I1tO the now filthy lumber- .J j f - - - f if Htl it A2 jack shirt. We had two long papers at once, which was too many, ll l4,,w-- l i-irV ,F i and we trudged through the icy slush four times a week to Ken- e be yon for fundamentals and squash. Then it rained one whole j I V i I I w . I week, while We had our irst attack of home-sickness, and we ' I I I . 'f y thought the whole Hudson was descendingg and then it was ' ' l 'l l, R I I ' -li ! I , ' I Q l I Spring' 3 , li 5 il, I , 1 ll ,' l' I We read the Waste Land and decided that we, too, were deca- I A .I f l l dent. For the Hrst time it seemed really worth while to explore - l x IL N the forbidden catwalks on Main, and we had sunbaths crouched i l 5 I 5 behind a chimney. It was exam time in no time, but we could 3 not manage to get as worried about it as we had before. And the :T p f C term was an Eldorado of Two Hundred Courses and afternoons ' I T in the solarium. On Salve night the genial juniors down the hall T x :fi--., came in reeling like maenads and tossed us in the shower, but 4 1, Q 1 nobody cared. We would have our chance. We were really sophomores now, after two terms. Important people. Next year we would really get down to work. 1 F' 4' Q r X L i - Lp t . i I l, 3 ' ! - r WJ 15 .