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The Belles of Saint Mary’s ROUND ’N’ ABOUT So long in coming, so soon in go- It took a long time for the stiow to decide to come but when it finally came it scorned us and was Sone before we got a good look at it. It was here long enough, though, for ® number of young ladies of Saint I Clary’s School to express a strong fiislike for bad, small hoys who put ’’ocks in snowballs and then pelt un suspecting individuals with them. I-oming down the steps of Smedes on the night of the snow, I looked out uver the campus as it lay sheathed 'u white and wondei-ed just how Uiany English themes for the coming U’eek would be written on the sub ject, “The Campus Under Snow.” ) ery considerate of the snow to come JUst when we had exhausted almost ®'’ery other subject! All the shoulder pulling back and *ue “tummy” pulling in that went around school last week made me I®el as if I had swallowed broom bundles and things, and I cut a sus- Pieious eye at each girl I passed in *Ue fear that she might be one of Ine posture policemen. For my part, I advocate a new measure in the fight for G. P. If all lessons were uone away with, we wouldn’t hp^e p hump over school books and voila: fi’ood Posture. 9^ ^ I Went to the student recital Feb- •■Uary 28 because I had to. After Seeing and hearing the students who Purticipated I had no regrets. The Upility of those girls was enough to anyone a pang of envy. The ?\Ugers thought nothing of hitting fi^gh 0. With different student ac- ^^^panists they sailed right through selections without a falter. Scattered throughout the vocalists the pianists, as Mr. Broughton Well testify, for he was the one raised and lowered the piano each time. The skill these girls ^owed made me determine to spend time practicing, and I resolved .fi^n to go to all the rest of the stii- ®^t recitals. ❖ i'fi ❖ j Ilave you all heard about Miss ^ ulor’s way with dogs ? Always in I^pathy with stray homeless ani- she had been daily giving part Turk’s food to a sad-looking P^iind which, encouraged by her hu- 1 ^'uneness, had adopted the campus his home. Miss Lalor’s motive .^Us to send him to the S. P. C. A. Ah this in mind, she arranged for , ® truck to come for him, and went f .fi to tie him up, but there her plan His snarling and snapping it impossible for her to do than loop Turk’s leash about sirt^ he broke loose. From one sh ^ Hillsboro Street to the other cut P^^®^ed him as he became more ]jj ®^gled in the leash. As if to ■ ^ 1Ter good intentions to find him th galivants about ® Campus, but never within reach. * * * T'r®ciit letter from Mrs. Ber- Col^ Hll, Registrar of Sweet Briar that ■S®’ TIi'S. Cruikshank noted tiig Honey Peck, ’40, ranks among Tfteen highest freshmen in a ‘^ssofieo. CAMPUS NOTES Janice Fitzgerald, the newly elected president, held the first regular meeting of the French Club on February 25. Miss Harris as the guest speaker traced briefly the history of French art from the time of Louis XIV to the present. After this talk Nancy Poe sang several French songs for the club. The highlight of the evening, how ever, Avas the club’s first puppet show, put on by Bebe Castleman and Suzanne Hurley. The club is already planning a puppet shoAV to be presented to the Avhole school. # * ♦ In a recent meeting of the Dance Club Ed la Walker AA’as elected president of the club. The folloAv- ing members of the Dance Club attended a dance symposium at W. C. U. N. C. in Greensboro on March 1: Dorothea Herty, Mary Emilv Claiborne, Suzanne Hurley, Bunny Stribling, Margaret Kitcli- in, and Mary Martha Cobb. In the morning the girls participated in a technique class and that evening attended a performance of the Lit tlefield Ballet at Ayeock Audi torium. Miss Goss and Miss Har vey accompanied the girls. # # * The Doctors’ Daughters’ Club met at the hut for supper last Tuesday evening. Money is being collected from each member to aid in the purchase of cots for British War Relief. * * ♦ Juniors have decided that April 19 will be the most convenient date for the annual Junior-Senior Dance; so get your best bibs and tuckers and let’s make this the outstanding event of the year. * * # The Music Department presented the second student recital of the year on February 28. The program included the folloAving aspirant “artists”; Page Marshall, (Midelia Dav Jones, Dick Macgill, Dolores Fagg, Mary Sievers VToody, Wilson, Jean Fulton, Jane IHirt, Dorothy McDowell, Myrti a Har vey, Meredith Johnston Ellis Bar nard, Mildred Cleveland, Jinnette Hood, and Ann Seeley. * * # The E. A. P. and Sigma Lambda Literary Societies announced the winners of the joint meeting held on February 18 hi the Hut. The award of first nlace went to the Sigma Lambda Society and Mary Frances Wilson for “Fush.” Second and th rd places Avere won by Ann Seele for “Promise and Carol Cobb toi “Smatterings.” Both girls are E A P. members. Honorable men won by Katbrj-n Xcrma... a Sigma Lambda, for The Sean The method of judging the en tries is based on the m^^ber of possible Avinning points as follow . first place, 30-40; 20-30; third place, 10-2 , S'potnt's heldby each.aoci.,y js “Sd'*tbS?Iverh^Tny cup. For tlie past few years the cup has been in the possession of the E. A. P. Literary Society, but as the Sigma Lambdas are leading at present, this year promises to be the long- aAvaited exception. Judges of the poems entered in the contest Avere Miss Johnson, Miss Harris, and Mr. Broughton. Besides giving funds the Deut- scher Verein is collecting tinfoil to send to Britain. Any other persons interested in helping are requested to give their contributions to Deutsche!' Verein members. Word has also come that bombed British hospitals need soap. The Deutscher Verein is planning to send a large box of soap and soap flakes and Avoiild appreciate any donations. # * # Recent medical highlights: Nancy LeAvis for an appendicitis operation; Frances Sweeney for an appendicitis operation; Betty SAvain for an attempted appendi citis, i.e., an attack; Edla Walker for measles. * * # During Lent visiting ministers Avill officiate at the afternoon Chapel service held each Wed nesday. The Rev. Louis Taylor of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Columbia, S. C., Avas the first of these ministers. # ^ # Dr. Meta Glass, president of Sweet Briar College, visited Saint Mary’s on February 27. At a cof fee given in her honour by Mrs. Cruikshank she met several stu dents interested in attending SAveet Briar and talked to them of the school. # # # In connection Avith the anti-noise campaign a modern skit, “The Case of Veronica Valedictorian” or “How Not to Study” Avas pre sented in Assembly on March 5. The cast included Sara Jane Kitchin, Mary Emily Claiborne, Peggy Wall, Carolyn Cauble, Cor delia Jones, Elise Marshall, and Caro Bayley. With the positive abandon of any consideration for poor Veronica’s aspirations the characters stampeded through tAvo typical scenes in the life of the long-suffering, Avould - be A'aledic- torian. The amused audience easily recognized the moral underlying the horseplay. Aiding in the pro duction of the skit Avere Miss Mor rison, Bunny Stribling, and Mar tha NcAvell. * * The Student Government Asso ciation has formed a committee to analj'ze existing campus regula tions and to suggest a possible plan for their revision. Members of this committee include the fol- loAving class representatives: Sue Hai’AVOod, Gray Woodard, Nancy McKinley, Anne Dunn, Bunny Stribling, Mary Ann PettigrcAV, Betsy Burgess, Nancy Moore, Katherine Kirby, and Ihrie Pou. The purpose of this committee is to simplify campus regulations and not to increase student privileges. PETER P. PROGRESS There is a strange animal prowl ing our corridors. He is a silent, invisible creature from force of habit; no one has ever seen him. He is ninety-nine years old, and he is as important as the oaks in the groA'e. He has a passion for doing some thing spectacular once every decade or so. And, like Tager, he loA'es to take death-defying life leaps from limb to limb of Saint Mary’s rule tree. He is a first cousin to the Chawan; his name is Peter P. Prog ress. This year Peter is A’ery deserv'edly going to get some publicity. His latest bid for fame is so noteAvorthy that he is Avell on his giddy Avay to becoming Saint Mary’s favorite per sonality. For Peter has brought Sat urday night cinema (or theatah, or just plain movies) to the seniors and their dates. Now to senior dignity is added the unique pri\'ilege of walking doAvn the path Avith a hand some boy—even a cousin Avdll do if you can dig one up—crossing the 'bloody boulevard’ of Hillsboro Street, boarding a bus, faring forth decidedly unchaperoned into a night time city for a “pitchershoAv” and (if the date’s piggie bank holds out) food at the California-or-someAvhere. Then the handsome lad may escort his dignified, entertained, cosmopoli tan young lady back to her alma mater—not later than ten o’clock. Yes, Peter really took a death-defy ing life leap into modernity. And there is an open threat in seniordom of sudden, gory death to anyone who takes a tuck in Progress’ legs by abusing his latest gift to the Stu dent Handbook, 1941-42. IIoAv pleased our Peter must be Avith himself. How ultra-modern he must feel Avhen he sees a smart young couple stroll gaily off campus for three hours of exciting freedom, and remembers hoAv—’tAvas not so long ago—those ancient moderns of Saint Mary’s looked forward to a Saturday night hour in the parlor AA'itli their beaux, provided it did not take the gentlemen the entire hour to secure visiting permission from the powers that Avere. To those of you who suspect Peter of revolutionary or even Communis tic tendencies, let it be suggested that perhaps he, too, is A'astly tired of the overAvhelming, sequestered at mosphere of the parlor, its toAvering windows and deep-shadowed ceil ings, its huge coziness. It is unnec essary to add that any senior Avho has successfully fought the monster Ed Ucation (better knoAvn, perhaps, as Grendel) through Book VIII of Paradise Lost {and looked up all the words) deseiwes a movie. To quote one of our belles, obviously inspired by the majestic language of Mr. J. Milton, “off—Avith a date— oh—golly!” _ So the seniors yield the immense dignity of the parlor to the juniors and underclassmen. The next senior seen there on a Saturday night is either attached to the portraits or dating a boy who has just sent her a dozen orchids (yes, you’d expect him to be broke). Undoubtedly the Bish ops Avill miss their prospective alum- lue aAvfully at first, and the exquisite tune of the piano will sag another niournful half tone from sheer lone liness.
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