Vassar College - Vassarion Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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X L, -1 3 ln l E xi' x 1 5 JW 1 I' 1 1! .Ax , Q ll jj l T l' 60? Were we sophomores or juniors? Nobody was quite sure, we were convinced we were juniors, since we would graduate next year, the seniors were convinced we were sophomores, since we had been freshmen last year. It didn't really matter, we were sure we had found our niche. For we had all the advantages: nobody was worrying about us, and we had no particular respon- sibilities, like the jolly miller beside the river Dee. We were up- perclassmeng we had reached the apex of life. We looked over the new crop of freshmen critically. They sure look green, some of us said. They sure look sophisticated, others remarked. A nice crowd on the whole, but not as good as us. After all, we were upperclassmen. We noticed though, how many men they had. We went to the mail about one-fifth as much as we had, and We got about one-fifth as much mail. Never mind. There was still the man at Yale. We thought. He hadn't written in three weeks. We kept our good resolutions faithfully until the middle of October, and then something happened. We stumbled upon the dangerous knowledge that it was possible to go to history un- prepared, and that one was not necessarily flunked if a paper was turned in three days late. We read Mein Kampf steadily for three weeks completely ignoring all our work, and then came the crisis. Happy freshmen crises, with three whole days to do a note topic! We watched the dawn come in the window, and swore never again. We were wrong. It happened the next month. 'TF lil- all f f W giggle 1 K' ll , A Ng Q F ll t- i 6' 'iff - ll . 0 -, jbgflfl l A' Q f f 4' - I li l 1 j ll 5 ll l l l l fi l ' ll Q j s, 1 l - I V' V I i ' 1 'If 'f 1' II j X X y r ,I 1 I Vljylf X 'wg w r' l r f X Ml 16 1 if ll

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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 .

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We were terribly busy. Five courses-hard ones, and we had stayed on the paper, and were wasting our youth in the cause of better journalism. We took trips to the Tabard as spring came along. Dramatics was an unexplored fieldg we made scenery and put on shorts and waved our lovely limbs in the kicking chorus in Soph Party. The man from Yale was in the audience, and he seemed impressed. We acquired a large and beautiful pic- ture of him to put on the bureau, and our roommates admired him noisily. He was going overseas in a week. A pity. Despite all the activity, we were doing better Work than last year. We looked over our freshman papers and quietly shud- dered, and then wrote our first really good term paper. We thought it was our life work and we stayed up all night typing it. Of course, we were practically flunking psych, but we can't be geniuses at everything. Besides, Miss Jones said We organized our material well. What do you want? C term we let up a little-after all, we deserved a rest some- times. It was really a wonderful tan. We perfected a foolproof scheme for cleaning a john in thirteen minutes flat, and we prowled up and down Arlington gazing at the new lavender and cerise suits. We became terribly witty and went to Founder's Day brandishing a twig, disguised as Birnam Wood. We were taking a couple of three hundred courses. They weren't much harder, and they were much more interesting. We thought per- haps our real bent was for scholarship. gi-jf' ' V . 2 , fx jl 4 , 1 A la! lu! S ! p J UWM ,N-N , 63 y ' f , l x J -l -- Ll I ir... 5 O ,. s -'uf ' ' 1 ,4rf,.,. ' f f' len rj- '7 V-I I., . - - ., 1- , V 1 Q UDE, Q: Wgtph L 1 . Q93 I qs l 1 T 7 M f'l ,, Q - ,, X ,1 ,g, .I .Q i , ,I 3 .' ix, y A A i ' ,',.'k.,! X Y - ' xr , 1, ..- . ' 1 '1 X. QXIHI p A J-' :Ill 5 ' ' 1 f 1 ' ' I . : , 1 fi' Y Y J hill l, jp, ' Ai A ii ' 'Xu 5 ' t l lil. 6 'A X t ll' 1' H l ' M- la kh!-my 1 ll l 4 li l - li llllli I I I n ,ft L pill I 'lldli' l xl . ff' f . ' t l f--sa lv ,l f .shy un f L WLUE1 7 4 l ' M 4 K H, g 17