Wells College - Cardinal Yearbook (Aurora, NY)

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the back-groundg and following these, three scenes from Janice Mereditlzg ffsuccess to Vifashingtongl' ffthe Divine made morn- ing calls on Janicegi' Hher lesson in painting from Charles. Finally the red curtain rose on the Goddess of Liberty, with a picturesque group about her, and then dancing began once more, and Was kept up until the Warning bell sent the revelers up stairs to remove their gay costumes, their powder and their paint, and become ordinary mortals again. Ye Birthdag Belle. Ye iiddlers, fiddle now your gayest! For dovvne ye carved oaken staire, Ye guests with stately steppe are moving Fine gentlemen, and ladies faire. Oure colonies have sent their bravest And fairest here to grace oure halleg Ye North and South will dance together, At Washingt0n's gay birthday balle. For love of him are met together, Gay gallants, soldiers scarred and brown Court beauties, yea, and Indian Warriors, And sweet-faced. maycles from Quaker-town. Then, fiddlersgfiddle now youre gayest! We jest, although oure hearts are grave. And liste! Our chief to alle is speaking,- We shall be free, let us be bravelv HELEN SCOFIELD 1902. 120 I I I i 1 l

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Sophomore Dramatlczs F the many soc1al events of the past season, the Sophomore Play, A Farr Barbaman, glven Monday evemng March twelfth, was one of the most b11ll1ant Musrc Hall was bughtly hghted fo1 the oceas1on and among the crowd of fash lonably dressed people, were many of nnportance 1n the college world F1TSt of these were the Semor s, grave and dwnlfled separated from the common throng by lavender 11bbons across the seats Then the Jun1o1s who neglectmfr fO1 that evenmv' then' usual ca1e of the Freshmen, had assumed an lndrifel ent au and, wlth remarkable coolness had seated themselves du ectly 1n front of the SGDIOIS, doubtless antxclpatmo' a l1ttle the glory of be1n0f Uthe whole thmfr next year Last, but not least ln then own estlmatlon were the Freshmen, who had ar11ved on the scene as early as possrble No wonde1 they looked a l1ttle gloomy when they saw the name on the plogr am, for what hopes had not been 1a1sed by the findlno' of Phoemx plays and scraps of paper afte1 the great wlnd storm wh1ch devastated so many of the Sophomore looms There was a hush of expectatlon as the curtaln rose on the first scene and at the openmfr words certam knowmg membels of '03 nodded then heads as thoucfh they were fam1l1ar wrth the llnes Th1S was st1ange for of coulse they had not t11ed to see or hear any of the rehearsals To the umnltlated m the audlence, everythlng seemed to 0'o smoothly They of course could not know of the anX1ety behlnd the scenes lest Octav1a should be un able to cut the fowl 1n the H1 st act, or lest, 1D the second act, Lady Theobald should go out doors throufrh the French wlndow lnstead of golnof to her room as she ouvht They could not see the anxlous faces ln the files watchlnff to see 1f Lucla remember ed to keep 1D front of M1 B3.1IH1St0D6 so as to hlde hls skut and lf Octavla let her curls fall at the rwht moment And 1n the last act when Jack and Octavla so rapturously embrace d1d the audx ence reahze the dozens of t1mes that they had stumbled 1nto each otherls arms, amld the jeers of then crltlcal classmates? If they d1d they were conslderate enough not to show 1t and thls was SU.16ly appleclated by the actors After the curtaln had gone down on the last act, lt was 1a1sed agam and the actols and actresses held a l1ttle receptron on the stave If one may Judge from the remarks made, everyone 121 I . . . 7, . . L N F' ,. . l . ' . D 7 q . , D o 1 -O . ' Q ., . , o 0 O , . . ,, . .' D 1: ' ' . 1 I 1- 1 I 1 1 ' 1 1 '. . . O i Q 1 ' . 1 . . 1 2 ' 5 J . .' .. . - D 1 ' 1 1 1 v . 3 . 1 be . 1 - 1 O 1 O 1 J 1 h I 1 1 1 1 D Q 1 1 - n C . 1 1 1 3 ' . . ' .i .. 7 . . . C.