William Jewell College - Tatler Yearbook (Liberty, MO)

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V-f .isa l f the Boy. Incredible as it seems . . . I had come to college at eighteen without ever having dared to look fully into the face of any boy of my age .... My brother and his friends, my father and his friends, these I had always hobnobbed withg but those who naturally should have been my companions, I shunned. I was unable to take part in those things that brought the young people of the day together. I did not dance .... I was incredibly stupid and uninterested in games .... I had no easy companionable ways, was too shy to attempt them .... But the daily association in the classroom, . . . the mutual interests, . . . the continual procession of college doings which in the nature of things Ccon't p. 125 iv a as? Y - Ax- -,,, A , f , V ., t 1 ' '. 2 prrffgg' r ,lf QI. M 1 -Ri? , f - ff V, rv V , Q J iginsvxis - .. Q WI , -q V , . 'aj 1 L.:-1 , t

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,A WX L i equired that you should have a masculine attendant, soon put me at my ease .,.. I still had a stiff-necked determination to be free. To avoid entangling alliances of all kinds had become an obsession with me. I was slow in laying it aside when I began to take part in the social life of the college, and because of it I was guilty of one performance which was properly enough a scandal to the young men. There were several men's fraternities in the college, most of the boys belonged to one or another. It was an ambition of the fraternities to put their pins on acceptable town and college girls. You were a Delta girl, or a Gamma girl or a Phi Psi girl. I resented this effort to tag me. Why should I not have friends in all the fraternities? And I had, I accumulated four pins and then, one disastrous morning, went into chapel with the four pins on my coat. There were a few months after that when, if it had not been for two or three non-frat friends, I should have been a social outcast ....