Wellesley College - Legenda Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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w, e walk along the road to wisdom with a Wellesley Stride. On invigorating fall afternoons or warm spring evenings, the way to the Libe seems far too short in comparison to the length of time we spend indoors. Iee-skaters in January and bicyclists in April almost deter us from our noble purposes. Once inside the Libe, we can bury ourselves in the Biblical History room, contemplate in Classics, nod over the newspapers, or browse in the Brooks Room. Then, too, we have the scholarly privilege of perusing the stacks, as Mary A. Childs, ' 42, is proving on this page. 9

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.raditional at Wellesley are the roses and pledge pins which appear one early morning each fall and spring. Senior members of the societies hustle down the dormitory cor- ridors in the darkness before the rising-bell, find the correct room, and go in to awaken the new member of Tizzy or Shakes or of one of the other societies. The sleepy novice awakes happily to receive her rose, pin, and picture of the society house to which she will belong. In chapel that morning she will look eagerly for the rose-pinned sweaters of her other friends who may have chosen to enter a society; and a week later she will go quaking to the initiation dinner, which will turn out to be pleasant and not terrifying. Teas, dinners, fire-lit meetings, program-plannings, and hours of companionable re- laxation lie ahead. Wellesley ' s societies, formed years ago for the purpose of studying extra-curricular subjects of interest to the college community, retained and broadened their functions since then. A new honorary member of one of the groups, Mr. Vladimir Nabokov, Resident Lecturer in Comparative Litera- ture at the college t his year, is seen at the left with Mrs. Nabokov and two members of llie society, enjoying tea at the Phi Sigma house. 10