Wellesley College - Legenda Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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Louise Countryman, Agora Virginia liegeman, Alpha Kappa Chi Cldoe Loekriilge, Phi Sigma Suzanne Hayward Shakespeare T .hose of the Juniors and Seniors who have joined the societies have experienced there new friendships, wider regions of interest, and long conversations over the teacups or around the piano. At the foot of Tower Court hill, some of us, leaving our bicycles near the garden path, go into the timbered house which is the center for Elizabethan spirits. Others, led by interests in poetry, art and music, modern drama, the classics, or the social sciences, meet in their chosen one of the five society houses which stand on Tupelo Point, bej r ond the still, translucent waters of Longfellow Pond. Betty Held, Tau Zeta Epsilon Frances Duclos, Zeta Alpha p m A. m ' % i ' .!?■ m «. ' ?f . W UF : -.■ rtp lVl !r:; 3J W B wm % ...-{ ' mm , :%.- SP? ; fc; ' ■ .• ■ ■ ttwmc mj : ' : -i w 4 »m M ' »- i m -- ■ ttt-Jfc ' JLJmJ « ♦ '

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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

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T. .he center of discussion on current affairs, Agora at Wellesley takes its name from the marketplace of Athens. The spirit remains the same. True, the names of Churchill, Roosevelt, and Nelson did not appear in the ancient Greek discussions — hut then neither did the speakers wield needles and yarn for war relief! With Louise Countryman ' 42, as president, one of the most informative and interest in ' years the society lias known may be put on record. AGORA