William Smith College - Pine Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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I ,T - - Will the meeting please come to order? questioned the Editor- 1n-chief of the Ridge. One of the associ- ate editors removed her feet from the table but continued to crochet. The Editor looked woe- fully around to see if the entire board of five was there. Is Perk coming? The Ridge . 4... L .J - g 7'9 came from another as- sociate, reclining on the bed. No, sighed the Editor, she just tele- phoned she couldn't come. Have you all read this material? The Editor eyed appre- hensively the lean and sickly pile of manu- scripts. All but this musty formal paper that no one reads anyway, and that We'll have to use to fill up space, the Cynic yawned And this here lengthy story that will have to be cut in twain. The Critic jabbed her crochet hook savagely through a sheet. As 69

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1 AW? 1 A i . . -, v Press Association Chairman of Press Association - HELEN PYBUS, '16 HELENE DAILY, '16 BETTY SWEET, '16 GRETCHEN BATTEY, '16 VERA NASMITH, '16 EDITH SMITH, '16 SARAH CUMMING, '16 EDMERE CABANA, '18 ESTHER SUTTON, '18 Hon Edit- Dearly Miss: You have request that I shall make a write up regarding activity of honorable Press Association. Very well I will do so. Now to commence. We are full of mournfulness to acknowledge that we are not so active now as in previous division of year. Firstly let me declare what are not to be recalled. There are no members from our collegiate class, 1919 by number, approaching up to join our ranks, whereforely it must be with greatly regretfulness admitted that they are not come to make applications from their English vocabularies with properly use of vigor and decormn. Secondly if you are filled with disappointment by approaching out hastily some coldly morning for New York's Times or Boston Transcript not to see bits of news concerning rapidly progress of females of William Smith's Collegeg don't blame honorable Press Association. We are lacking muchly in funds none of which can gracefully ac- cumulate by selling Christmas postals which you are full of unwill- ingness to buy although we respectfully put sign on bulletin board inviting you to do so. Thusly we snuggest with due respectiveness that more support be permitted from incoming students. The space so kindly alloted me are thusly exhausted. Hoping you are the same, I am A ALREADY To-Go. 68

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TATA T il IMOT Yi , A If A .4 ' for this sentimental squash- she vaguely indicated some poems. Do eradicate it. Oh dear, wailed the Editor, ' Don't be so hard on the budding genius! We've got to have some- thing. If you don't like it, why don't you write something yourself? the sarcastic Cynic pertinently inquired. What the Critic said is not 'fit for publication. There's the contest upon which to draw, interposed the Ford member. Well, two of the Freshmen A V have promised to write if they aren't XR too busy with the play. And a Junior will if she gets an idea. Neither money, nor election to this august body, tempts the Sophomoresf' The Editor groaned at this cheering report. The Cynic livened up their sinking spirits by singing off the key, Oh, where, oh, where, is the Ridge stuff gone Oh, where, oh, where can it be? We'll never get an issue out That I can plainly see. The Critic, with accurate aim, stopped the song by a pillow. The Editor doubtfully picked up an illegible manuscript. We could use this, if we have to. Its left over from the last Novel Course. ' . Yes, put that in, it's sure to be nice and literary. The Cr1t1c, for once, was favorable. 70