Wellesley College - Legenda Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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1909 ' s Serenade Manuscript No. 1 To-night the most beautiful thing happened! I can ' t remember the rest of the day, I am so excited about 1909 ' s serenade. It was simply wonderful. All the lovely colored lanterns coming up Dover Street looked just like fairy- land! And I perfectly love to hear singing in a procession — the way it begins far off, you know, and then comes nearer and nearer. One of the Noanett girls came up and told us all the Sophomores were coming down in the village and it must be to haze us. We were scared to death, but we thought we ' d just stay where we were and face the music. And I ' m so glad we did. I wouldn ' t have missed that serenade for worlds! Noanett. One of the best-preserved ruins found in this part of the settlement. Generally the home of the Chief Priestess. Sophomores. See Manuscript No. 8. Haze. Origin of word obscure. Extinct. 27]

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Class of 1910 — Freshman Officers Elizabeth Blish President Selma Smith Vice-President Kate Cushman Recording Secretary Grace Kilborne • Correspoyiding Secretary Bell Mapes Treasurer Executive Board — Margery Hoyt, Betty Barrow, Marion Mason. Advisory Board — Miri. ]vi Loder, Blanche Decker. Factotums — Meriam Carpenter, Nan Otis. 26

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Manuscript No. 2 Say, but I was scared! I ' d heard of the Black Hand, of course, but I never supposed it could exist in such an out-of-the-way place as Wellesley. My note said, Present this at the Barn at 4.15 this afternoon. Be sure and show this note to no one. Then I found that Mary and Dorothy had received notes just like mine. Mary said that we really had better go, because it might be an interview with the Dean. Anyway, it didn ' t look a bit like the Dean ' s writing. It wasn ' t a bit impressive, and it wobbled lamentably. x nyway, we went. When we got to the Barn, a hand Avas thrust forth from the inner gloom, and we gave it the slips of paper and tried to slip in unobtrusively. The interior was a murky pool of dusky twilight because all the shades were down, while at the extreme far end loomed a disk of light. We sat down. All around us, we could distinguish forms sitting on the floor. Then Olive Smith stepped into the disk of light and told us that we were assembled for the purpose of electing a chairman for our Serenade Committee. She then said that nominations from the floor were in order — whatever that meant. Then one of those Noanett girls popped up and said, Madame Chairman, I nominate Mary Smith. Of course we all knew that Olive had put her up to it, but anyway, it sounded grand. We all started to nominate people, and then before I had a chance to nominate Dorothy, or Dorothy to nominate me, some one said, I move the nominations be closed. I was that furious! Barn. See Manuscript No. 16. The Dean. The Chief Oracle. Her word was considered law in all matters pertaining to the government of the conmiunity. ' Murky pool of dusky twilight. This phrase illustrates the highly colored language of these primitive tribes. Records found in the ruins of the English office bring out this tendency even more strongly, but these are otherwise unfit for pubH cation. Sitting on the floor. From quotations like.this it is believed that chairs were not made at this time. Fragments of articles of furniture resembling bookcases and desks have been found, and it is known that low divans were used for rechning purposes. But, so far as we have been able to discover, the common {jeople followed the Eastern custom of sitting on the floor. ' Ohve Smith. One of the lesser oracles always consulted Ijefore any imjx)rtant step was taken. ° Serenade Committee. See Manuscript No. 1. ' Noanett. See Manuscript No. 1. [28]