Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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The Freshmen re wheaton college norton mass september 21 1937 dear mehitabel i have come here to see what the life of a typical college student really is. some- times i have wondered in my journeyings through this vast world and now perhaps i will really know. 1 came here with some- one in the lowest class. she is called a fresh- man and has certainly been doing some lively running around ever since we ar- rived. when ido not have to run so fast to observe her i will write again. regards to the kittens archie still here the next week dear mehitabel today we have been wearing horrible scratchy pieces of cardboard around our necks with much writing on them. i dont yet know what this is all about but i gather that my girl friend is mary jones from brooklyn new york. not far from home. last week we went to a barny place called the little theatre and read a page of alice in wonderland which seems to be a story for children to read to another person who seems to be a teacher. we tried to speak as well as we could because i guess the lady had trouble in understanding english. from what 1 hear she never did get to hear the whole book because everyone who read to her used the same pages over and over again. we passed our swimming test and i have discovered that water is a wettish sub- stance much the same as rain only greener and in a big square dish. regards to the kittens archie the same almost time to go home for a while dear mehitabel yesterday some girl who tried to pretend she was santa claus came out of a building and gave some packing boxes to the rest of [12 ]

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the college. some girls were in them and they have turned out to be the ones who tell us what to do. the girls have funny names. the president is a girl named marion hastie price and the vice president who helps the president to carry on is jean nevius and the secretary is jane ohmer and the treasurer is helen johnson. there is another one too and i almost forgot. it is the songleader and she is skeeter ransom. she must be a relative of mine. we are almost ready to go home for a resting period. if you can swim the river maybe i will see you in brooklyn some- time. regards to the kittens archie back here again only now it is another year 1938 dear mehitabel the first and most important thing on my mind right now is that our doctor whose picture is in the book house has come back. and i have discovered why he is so well liked. he is the president of the whole college and the day that he came back we all went very secretly to his house across the street and sang songs until he came to the door. we had never seen him before in all our lives but we had heard a lot about him and he must be wonderful because as soon as he came to the door and waved at us the rain started to roll down the sides of our cheeks. that was funny because it wasnt raining. regards to the cats archie same place only better than ever dear mehitabel the biggest crisis of the year is approach- ing when we enter the tournament for drawing rooms for next year. i expect to be killed outright so i may not be seeing you again after this. at the same time we will have the pleasure of watching the ven- erable seniors or the highest class struggle through the most trying days of their whole college career and graduate from this place. then we shall step up to a high- er class and prove that today we are a man. regards to the grand-kittens archie pale