Wells College - Cardinal Yearbook (Aurora, NY)

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Junior 19mm Gllummittee Miss Catharine Merridith, Chairman Miss Helen Thomas, Ex-Gflioio Miss Lucia Mundorf Miss Ada Kieffer Miss Elisabeth Morss Miss Marjorie Shipherd Miss Helen Schroeder Miss Ruth Staley 93

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Suphmnre imap I don't want you to remember dates but a few stand out as epoch making and these you should learn. In Sophomore year one of the most important was February 16, when the striving Freshmen posted our play as George Bernard Shaw's Arms and The Man. This serious mis- take had to be rectified so we posted the real play, The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde. But the childish minds of the younger class were slow to grasp its full significance until we had harangued for hours and shown them many documents bearing proof of our assertion. The final night came March 13th-it might have frightened other classes but not the class of 191 3. Every thing seemed to go well for the first minute and a half. Then Algernon in his apartment looked for Lane to enter from the center back but there was no Lane. Finally after a trifling hesitation he sauntered in through an unaccus- tomed side entrance, and looked significantly at the door which had refused to open. Loud knockings were heard at the unyielding door, and finally it fiew open, revealing two carpenters, and Lady Bracknell in frenzied hysterics, a strange contrast to her majestic calm entrance a few minutes later. Gwendolyn appeared in trailing clouds of glory and did not even look syrnpathetically at john Worthing who was in dizzy distress on account of the tightness of his wig. The lines of the play were clever, that is the lines that remained after a thorough expurgation, and the audience was clever in appreciation. Q2

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Ziuniut from fggk . rf 1 rl. js f fl Merril foR7KQ l 99931119 fl If Ink Q! 1 :hx eu Papa: 0 allgm?0 D., jg, MY ,DG E ' 4 many as the average college girl About the first of April you begin to haunt the mail table Cthis year, due to modern improve- ments you will probably lounge around the post officej, though it isn't every one of your letters you are interested in, just certain ones that make a direct appeal to the emotions, sometimes the pleasurable ones, more often the painful. Surreptitiously, you send off invitations and induce- ments, each one more alluring than the last, but six refusals is about as can stand. The seventh is just one too many, it is firm but fascinating-men will be athletic just to keep up With the girls, and of course May is the only month for field meets, just as it is the only month for Proms! In a moment of Wild depression, you Write the eighth appeal. This friend, your last resource, isn't just exactly the man to have at a Prom Cyou must admit they are a type by themselvesj but he can dance and that, after all, is one of the requirements. So! some go With their eighth choice, others with a best friend of a friend that their best friend invited for them. The day arrives-you cast aside your academic air to assume one of levity and light-heartedness, you don the 94