VOL. II
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, FRAMINGHAM, MASS., OCTOBER 7, 1932
No. 1
FACULTY BASEBALL TEAM
Field Day Held at Riverside
Young Women’s Christian Association Meets at Wellesley
On September 24 the cabinet members of the Young Women's Christian Association were the guests of Miss Hunt at the A. K. X. house at Wellesley College. Betty Gouki, president of the association for 1932 and 1933, had charge of the day’s activities. Miss Hunt and Dr. Meier generously offered their cars for transportation.
Soon after arriving the group walked about the campus, exploring the buildings, and were much impressed by the chapel and Young Women’s Christian Association room and office.
At Tupelo Point, Miss Catherine Duffield, regional secretary, led a discussion period concerning the purpose of the association. The cabinet adjourned to the A. K. X. house where the girls cooiwraled in prejiaring a buffet lunch consisting of tuna fish salad, potato chips, rolls, cocoa, maple walnut ice cream, and cookies.
An outdoor discussion was held in the afternoon.
The cabinet members wish to express their appreciation to Miss Hunt for the opportunity to meet at Wellesley for business and recreation.
Senior Class Meets for First Time
On September 19 the senior class held its first meeting in the assembly hall. The document concerning the freshman initiation was read and heartily approved by the class.
Owing to the lack of time the business of nominating a vice-president, to fill the j)osi-tion left vacant by the resignation of Lettice Mitchell, was postponed. The former vice-president was elected to the office of president of the Athletic Association.
Deep regret is felt by the faculty and students because of the death of Mary Schwartz of Roslindale, Household Arts sophomore. We extend our most sincere symi>athies to her family.
Faculty-Freshman Game a Feature »
September 20 will go down in F. T. C. history as marking the first Framingham Field Day in recent years. Though originating with the class of '32, the plans were well carried out by the present seniors. The original idea was to have final games played off and to make of them real contests. The general content of the program, however, followed the idea of “fun for all, and all for fun.” Busses left college at 1:00.
The first scheduled event was a tennis tournament between Alice Murphy and Irene Hayes. Alice was the winner with the score 6-3, 6-3. It proved a lively match, and was thoroughly enjoyed.
An outstanding feature of the program was a group of fancy dives by Miss Una Southard. This exhibition created great enthusiasm among those present.
“Variety is the spice of life.” The facultyfreshman baseball game proved no exception to this statement. The faculty gave the freshmen plenty of com|>etition, and lost the game by only one |x>int. The Household Aits senior-Elementary senior baseball game followed, with a final score of 11-10 in favor of the Household Arts seniors.
During the afternoon canoeing, swimming, bowling, tennis, and other sports were enjoyed by different groups.
After a hearty supper, earned by many and eaten by all, the group returned. The fun ended only after the busses left college and the girls had stop|>ed their cheering and singing.
Seniors Give Fresh-
man Reception
Affair Held on Horace Mann Terrace
On Friday, September 23, as part of the activities of Freshman Week, the seniors entertained the freshmen al a tea on Horace Mann terrace.
Dean Savage, Miss Ramsdell, Miss Spar-row, and Ruth Parker, senior class president. were in the receiving line.
Mary Partridge, Margaret Dugan, Mildred Smith, and Betty Beckwith, presiding as hostesses at very attractive tables, served orange sherbet, cookies, and mints.
Kathryn Gavin was chairman of the committee for the tea.
Class and Club
Council Is Organized
House Party Scheduled for Week-end of September 30
The first meeting of the Class and Club Council was held in the Students’ Room, September 15. The president, Winifred Danforth, '33, called the meeting to order and welcomed all the members of the council.
For the benefit of the new members, the president mentioned the titles of the books on the conducting of Class and Club meetings. She reviewed the method of procedure which must be followed before any activity may be planned by any class or club.
After a discussion concerning Amicitia hour, a motion was maije and carried that we dispense with the meetings. The president then mentioned the regulations concerning chapel notices, and spoke about the music books which were to go on sale.
The house party, which was scheduled for the week-end of September 30, was announced and the food committee was chosen by the president.
At the close of the meeting the secretary read the constitution. As there was no further business the meeting was adjourned. Faculty Meets Fresh-
men at Tea
May Hall Attractive with Fall Flowers
Thursday, September 29, marked the day of the faculty’s reception to the freshman class at a tea in May Hall. President and Mrs. Bagnall, Dean Savage, and Mary Partridge, president of the Student Government Association, were in the receiving line.
The faculty and freshmen alike wore tags on which were written their names, de|>art-ments to which they belong, and the towns in which they live.
Faculty members acting as ushers took the freshmen through the receiving line, and then introduced them to Miss French, Miss Lombard, Miss Ramsdell, Miss Rochefort, or Miss Cushing, heads of the various departments of the college. A special effort was made to introduce the freshmen to the faculty members of their own departments.
Miss Hall, Miss Swan, Miss Weeks and Miss MacMillan presided at the tables, where orange sherbet, wafers and mints wore served. Seniors and sophomores assisted in the serving.
Decorations of fall flowers made an attractive setting for the lea.
Class and Club
Council House Parly
Did you see a dignified group of Framingham Teachers College students driving off last Friday afternoon with membersof the faculty? Did you wonder what it was all about? It was the Class and Club Council off to the famous teachers’ rendezvous, Riverbank Lodge in Sherborn. At the first meeting Friday night the calendar for the year was planned, but with difficulty of frequent demands for the chocolates provided by Mr. Ried. After the meeting was adjourned, lodging was sought in Riverbank's “glorified woodshed" (with a|x>logies to Dr. Foster).
The group that assembled for the meeting Saturday morning looked strangely flat —the result of sleeping under five blankets apiece. When the meeting was over the council was free to enjoy the wilds of
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Formal Inauguration of Caps and Gowns
Student Government
Calls Mass Meeting
Freshmen Informed of Initiation Duties
The first general assembly period of the school was held Monday, September 19, at 2 :00. The meeting was conducted by Mary Partridge, president of the Student Government Association, who began by the reading of the Student Government constitution. The council members, whose names follow, were then introduced:
President—Mary Partridge.
Secretary Josephine Czelusniak. Treasurer—Mildred Smith.
President of senior class—Ruth Parker.
President of junior class—Annette Pierce.
President of sophomore class -Gwendolyn Swanson.
Editor in chief of the Gate Post—Marie Blaikie.
President of Commuters Club—Marion Leonard.
Representative from Horace Mann Hall —Dorothy Gilman.
Representative from Crocker Hall—Priscilla Cairns.
Representative from senior class—Faith Sincerbeau.
Representative from senior class—Geraldine Winchenlaugh.
Representative from the faculty—Miss Larned.
Member ex officio—Dean Savage.
The president urged the entire student body to buy budget books this year, explaining that students could save money in this way. Without the coupons in the budget book, a student will have to pay more for admission to school activities. The president announced that, by a vote of the students, the Commuters’ Club will this year become an organization which will come under the direct ruling of the Student Government Association.
Hazel Ramsey, chairman of the Quiet and Order Committee, urged the much needed cooperation of the student body in keeping order throughout the buildings at times when quiet should prevail.
Ruth Parker, president of the senior class, read the document concerning the freshman initiation, and announced a theatre party for Saturday evening, September 24, which would bring Freshman Week to a clase.
Seniors Hear Lecture on Marionettes
It was the pleasure of the members of English 6 to bear a lecture on “marionettes; their history, construction, and manipulation,” by Mrs. Virginia Foeley of Wellesley Hills. Miss Kingman is meeting this class in the studio on the fourth floor of May Hall, where the construction of marionettes for a Christmas play is now under way. The puppet heads will be modeled in clay and then cast in plaster of Paris. From this cast the papier machi head will be made and the features painted.
Mrs. Foeley explained the construction of both the cloth and the wood bodies, and she had characters of both types for illustration. She had also several puppets from her own plays, and it was an unusual opportunity for each member of the class to attempt the manipulation of a Spanish dancer, a man with a cane, and a little black Scotch terrier.
The class is using the puppet show in preparation for later work in broadcasting on the radio.
Initial Appearance al Chapel Exercises
Chapel service on Tuesday, October 3, marked the first appearance in cap and gown of the 78 Household Arts and Vocational seniors. After the faculty and underclassmen had assembled, the seniors, led by class president, Ruth Parker, filed in and took their customary places in the front of the hall.
The choir, made up entirely of seniors, rendered the selection “Eye Hath Not Seen” from "The Holy City.” President Bagnall congratulated the seniors upon their new dignity, and remarked that the passing of another year would probably find the seniors of all departments wearing the traditional garb of candidates for an academic degree.
At the close of the exercises the faculty and underclassmen remained standing while the seniors passed from the hall.
Freshman Week Presents Varied Program
Upperclassmen Welcome Entering Students ------------------ f —4
A busy Freshman Week, under the direction of Mary Partridge, was planned for the opening days of school so that the entering students might become acquainted soon after their arrival.
The activities for all the resident freshmen began the first Friday night with a “get-acquainted” party in Peirce Hall, where dancing, singing, and games made a very friendly evening pass only too quickly. Punch and cookies were served, and later, to the strains of “Good Night, Ladies”, the guests departed.
A hike to Nobscot on Saturday morning was sponsored by the Athletic Association. Il was well attended by up[>crclassmen as well as freshmen.
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Committees for Student Government
Dance Chosen
Al a S|>ecial meeting of the Student Government Council on October 4, Mary Partridge, president of the Student Government Association, appointed members of the council to serve on committees for the informal dance to be held on October 29. The
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Freshmen Serenade / Senior Sisters
Thursday evening, September 22, the dormitory freshmen assembled on Horace Mann terrace to serenade their senior sisters. The first song, “You've Got Me in the Palm of Your Hand,” was followed by “Was Thal the Human Thing to Do?” The latter selection was sung with words appropriate to the severe treatment accorded freshmen, during initiation, by the seniors. The program closed with the singing of “F.R.A.M.”
During the serenade, as well as at the end, the seniors showered the “freshies” with molasses kisses thrown from their balcony seats in the windows overlooking the terrace. *
THE GATE POST
Published every month during the school year by the State Teachers College, Framingham, Massachusetts.
STAFF FOR 1932
LITERARY UNES
Editor
Marie Blaikie '33
Assistant Editor Beulah Schaper '33
Board of Editors
Literary...........Alice	Murphy '34 News....................Dorothy	Foster '34
Ass't Literary.... Margaret Coulter '33 Alumnae................Muriel	Kodis '34
Sports..........Lettice	Mitchell '33 Faculty..............Marion Slayton '34
Social.................Mary	Secor '33 Humor...............Elizabeth	Smith '33
Commuters’ Comments	Dormitory Doings
Anna McGinnis '34	Kathryn Gavin '33
News Editor in charge of Reporters Dorothy Foster '34
Reporters Geraldine Winchenbaugh '33	Dorothy Murphy '35
Frances Ramsdell '34 Staff Artists Elizabeth Gardner '33	Anne Jenkins '34
Business Staff Manager—Mildred Smith '33 Assistants Helen Russo '33	Ruth Patten '34	Anna Billa '34
Faculty Adviser Miss Louise Kingman
A is for Austins anti authors, by Jove.
B is for busses, and the busmen who drove. C is for cinemas, chemists, and “coikc.” D is for doggies, all British folks like.
E’s for the English, a jolly fine race.
F is for FRAMINGHAM. Home’s the best place.
Isn’t it lucky for me that F comes early in the alphabet? Suppose I taught at State Teachers College in Salem?
Assistant
Miss Dorothy Larned
OCTOBER 7, 1932
TO THE FRESHMEN
The Gate Post is enthusiastic in extending a welcome to those newcomers who have joined our ranks here on the hill, namely, the freshmen.
Freshmen, we are glad that you have selected Framingham as your college, and know that you will never regret having chosen it. Your attitude and actions already assure us that you are excellent sports and an all-round fine class. Live up to the opinion which the faculty and upper classmen have formed of you! It has been said, “You gain from a thing only what you put into it”; so it is at Framingham. The courses offered here, the books, athletics, and entertainments are all placed at your disposal; you can do •with them ivhat you will. Whether you emerge from our college with a good education, broad vision, a sense of humor, and a desire to go forward is up to you.
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THE PROBLEM OF CLUBS
The question, “What clubs am I going to join?” is at present confronting our students, especially the freshmen. Probably much interest in the various organizations has been created among you, as well as much indecision concerning what you will do.
Many have either bought a budget book or are intending to. Knowing that it covers the dues of any two clubs, with the exception of the Young Women’s Christian Association and A’Kempis Club, you no doubt feel that you must join two if you are to get your money’s worth. We cannot advise you in your selection; that is up to you. Joining clubs means supporting them! Many girls join, only to become so rushed with school work that they have not time to attend the meetings. Be sure that you are able to give a sufficient amount of your time to your club; then go ahead.
Do not let yourself be limited by the budget book. Investment in membership in one of the religious societies will bring rich returns, in the form of inspiration and help, during a year in which you participate in the club’s discussions, activities, and programs.
Remember that the maintenance and progress of a good association require interest, cooperation, and support.
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THE ART OF LIVING
Framingham’s outstanding need is a broader outlook and a deeper insight into the art of living. Lack of free and original thinking is only too apparent to those who stop to recall the general trend of conversation in the dormitories. There is a singularly narrow range of discussed topics. Indeed, it might almost be said that there is no discussion, certainly none on subjects which are of intense interest to people in general. Shall it be truthfully said of us that our lives are limited by the boundaries of the campus, that our conversation consists entirely of what he said to me and I said to him, and that our only interest in the newspaper is the funny sheet?
We need someone or something to stir us from our apathy toward new books, new plays, and new ideas; something to make us realize that we are not living in a world apart, that after commencement is not time enough to begin our acquaintance with the world at large. Above all, we should be conscious that we are going out “not only to earn a living, but to live.”
Compliments of of
THE SOPHOMORE CLASS
I could tell you of cathedrals, universities, country gardens, museums. Instead may I show you just a few pictures of people ?
Down the London street at nine o’clock one night I came. Across the street stood a man. Just a middle-aged man. He had no outstanding features. All he had was his violin tucked under his chin, and a certain grace as he drew his bow to and fro over the strings. His hat lay on the curb. Like the priest and the Levite we often read of in chapel, I started to pass by. Four steps and I had left him behind, though the strains of his music followed me. Then came the familiar sound of “Danny Boy.” A lump rose in my throat. Pictures of Kay Flynn, Kay Rockwood, Eleanor Knox, and other choir members raced through my mind. I developed symptoms of homesickness. Across the street I hastened to drop a sixpence into the open hat.
This violinist was a continuous source of interest to me. During my five weeks’ stay in London I grew to watch for him, to listen for his music as I sat in the hotel. Each evening he stood in front of Bourne and Hollingworth's department store window. The window he chose contained about a dozen lovely ladies dressed for the theatre, a gay party, or a dance. But always he seemed to play to a figure in white, whose ivory hands were stretched forth as though she were welcoming this stranger who gladly gave of his music every night. I thought, “If only Hans Andersen could see this picture, what a story he’d write."
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“What should you like to do to-night?" asked Miss Gerritson.
“Oh, please," I said, “oh, please,” I begged, “oh, please, oh, pfease," I cried, “I want to board a bouncing bus and ride, and ride, and RIDE!”
So we did, but first we bought chocolate candy bars (with nuts). You know the New York busses? The double deckers? That’s the type we took. Up the narrow stairway to the tippety top, first seat left. We were going down Oxford Street, and I had to look for fairies. I had never yet seen a rcally-truly fairy. I guess Rose Fyleman’s eyes are much keener than mine.
The bus man was the nicest man.
Well he was VERY kind.
He kept a-climbing up the stairs, He said he didn’t mind.
He told us English history as we passed by each street.
We grew so fascinated that we quite forgot to eat.
Miss Gerritson knows much more history than I do; so the little bus man talked to her more than he did me. In fact he told her confidentially and me incidentally that reading old books was his hobby.
“Don’t you ever go out nights?” I questioned impulsively.
“Can’t, ma’am,” he replied, “what with the children and the missus. I stays at ’ome and reads.”
He still approved of Miss Gerritson much more than he did me, but I think he beamed at me just a little more towards the end, for I slipped a bar of chocolate into his hand and murmured, “For the children.”
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Miss Ritchie, as you very well know, is a splendid librarian. If she recommends a book, it is generally worth reading. She made me read “Greyfriar’s Bobby." Yes, she made me I After I had skimmed through the first two chapters, nobody made me but myself! Miss Ritchie said, “You'll see Greyfriar's Bobby’s statue in Edinburgh, and you’ll see Old Jock's statue, erected with the money sentimental Americans gave; SO you must read this book."
I'm glad she insisted, for I saw the little
black dog’s statue in the slum district of Edinburgh. He’s on the top of a little drinking fountain where tired children hot from play come to cool their throats. Greyfriar’s churchyard is near by. It was here that we met the humorous Scotch caretaker. Hard it was to understand all he said, but easy to comprehend his friendliness. He showed us many interesting things and then as we were going he paid us a compliment. He announced that we “wur” the kind of Americans he liked to meet. It was a “verra, verra warrm” day, but for a few seconds we weren’t aware of it.
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At the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh I sat writing, writing cards (the traveler's indoor sport). Came a tall, slender woman, wearing a much worn tailored suit, and low-heeled Oxfords. On a leash each were two dogs, one a half grown butterscotch collie, sensitive beast he was, with eyes as soft as a deer; the other was a funny little cairn, evidently the older of the two, a pet, and he knew it. The woman rested on a divan dose by, and the dogs lay still at her feet. I looked up and said softly, “Oh, I’m glad you've come here. I saw you yesterday with two men and I’ve been admiring you.”
People say that the English will never speak first. I didn’t wait to see if she would. I talked first. Perhaps she’s used to queer Americans. Anyway she responded. Yes, the two men were hers, husband and son. Her son was an ambassador home on leave.
The dogs, hearing her voice, stirred a little. The collie lifted his head to look lovingly at his mistress. She reached out and gently patted his head. “Sleep, boy,” she said. But the cairn—“Pig, we call him. He does resemble a pig, doesn’t he?” gave a polite, dainty snore to let us know he knew we were talking of him.
This fine appearing English gentlewoman held me fascinated for three-quarters of an hour. She told me of her part in the great War. She gave me vivid pictures of what the English people suffered trying to live on the food that was allotted to them daily. She explained about the death taxes in England now. Gave me true incidents of the way titled people must sacrifice in order to survive conditions of the present day. She did not complain. She was not bitter. I don’t know her name, nor where she lives, but I shall always remember her and the dogs,—three thoroughbreds just “carrying on.” ♦ * • ♦
One afternoon, unintentionally, I led Miss Gerritson astray. She wanted to get off at one place, and I another. We stayed on the bus. When we did get off I discovered that she was right and I was wrong (this is usually the case). Well, here we were lined two deep, traffic cut off, mounted policemen riding majestically on prancing horses. She forgave me soon. Then there was nothing left to do but observe small children who were on all sides of us. There was one "sober sides" a little over a year old, head hanging over his mother's shoulder. He stared at us, as young babies like to do. I did all the “tricks” I could think of, but I couldn't capture one smile. Later he stretched forth one little chubby wet finger, from his mouth, and took hold of Miss Gcrritson's hand. This, for some reason, quite unbeknown to us, caused the belated smile to break forth. Friendship had just commenced when excitement swept through the crowd—for the King and Queen were approaching I
The Queen smiled with dignity, and bowed to left and right.
(Her loyal subjects cheered her with cries of wild delight.)
King George was just the image of the pictures I had seen.
Pink cheeks, blue eyes, full beard, he sal erect beside his Queen.
(Sorry, but the Prince of Wales wasn’t with the Royal Family.)
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FAMILIAR QUOTATION
"I’ve spent over an hour on this assignment. Now 1 MUST stop.”
Cheerio, R. H. C.
Sea Morn
On a dull gray sea thick fog hangs heavy, Gulls wheel above, keening plaintively; Sand-gray little pipers mince daintily Across an unmarred stretch of sand.
A salt sultry breeze blows softly by.
Ships wake at anchor and slip their cables, Sounding their hoarse-voiced, throaty, warning cries.
A bent old fisherman treads his early morning path
Down to the sea with gleaming net and lobster trap.
Inland a village clock strikes six—day has begun.
Marion Bishop '35.
Impression
flash of color streaming red, green of trees sky o’erhead, lots of people round about, churches steeple guiding out.
pale moon's shadow, white sun’s blaze, for tomorrow lifts the haze.
lots of friendship— heart in hand.
so we find you— Framingham.
Hermaline Gage ’36.
Moon Mad
Moon magic Brews itself As the moon rides the sky— Drops its potion into my heart And I am mad—mad— Moon mad, With silver light dripping Centuries old Into my heart— Yet ever new Into my soul, Till I am one with it. lam the moon— Centuries old—.
Alice Murphy '34.
Oblivion
I saw a snow white candle— All beautifully dipped.
Its tip was flaming orange— And then I had it nipped.
I saw a Luna moth— Antennae finely fringed.
I found its golden spot— And then I had it singed.
. I saw a slender deer—
With fear and trembling wrought.
It pleaded with its human eyes— And then I had it shot.
Betty Gould ’33.
New Loves for Old
A full moon rides in a dim blue sky, Youth seeks romance, but what care I. I'll be a cynic and laughingly smile; Lest my heart break, I'll dance awhile. Last year I loved, but this year is new; I'll never love again, no matter who Beats at my heart with thrilling word. Always I’ll answer this, "Last year I heard Words just like these, soft whisjiercd lies.” Laughing, I’ll make believe that love sometimes dies.
Marion Bishop '35.
Silver Dust
A shining star will fall out of the dim, black sky
And set its jeweled self upon the mountain high.
It will burn through the stony top to the •. gay green base
And sprinkle silver dust into the earth’s cold face.
Betty Gould '33.
HAVE YOU some of the new
F.T.C. SEALS?
. Winifred Danforth is selling them
HORACE MANN
The election of officers for Horace Mann Hall was held September 19. The results of the voting were
President—Dorothy Gilman
Vice-president—Eleanor Wagner
Secretary—Betty Sears
Treasurer—Dorothy Gilmore
JUNIOR CLASS
The president of the junior class, Annette Pierce, conducted the first meeting at Crocker Hall this year to nominate house officers. The results of the elections were as follows
President—Priscilla Cairns
Treasurer—Esther O’Brien
Secretary—Eleanor Mcndum
The junior class regrets that four of its members have found it necessary to leave school this year. Those who have left us are
Catharine McAndrew
Betty Dudley
Eugenia Tetrault
Edith Williams
We arc glad to welcome Inez Quinn, who comes to us from Skidmore College.
PEIRCE HALL
The election of house officers was held in Peirce Hall, September 29. The results were as follows
President—Marion Crittendon Vice-President—Ruth Sondermann Secretary—Agnes Milligan
Treasurer—Maric Schweitzer
Glee Club Welcomes Many New Members
A record-breaking group of girls, including many enthusiastic new members, gathered in Room 41 at 1:00, September 19, to start a new year of group singing. They had been carefully selected by Mr. Archibald, head of the music department.
The meeting was opened by the glee club’s president, Betty West, who, after the members had been seated according to the part which they sang, introduced the officers for the year. After the secretary, Betty Brown, had read the constitution of the club, the meeting was turned over to Mr. Archibald, who led a short period of singing before the close of the meeting.
FRESHMAN WEEK PRESENTS
VARIED PROGRAM
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Sunday the A’Kempis and Y.W.C.A. organizations featured “Go-to-Church” day and introduced many of the new students to the churches in the Centre.
Classes were omitted on Tuesday afternoon that the students might attend Field Day at Riverside. Sports of all kinds attracted many, and a picnic supper was served.
Wednesday night found all the freshmen searching eagerly for the hidden treasure. Each girl’s search was rewarded by a large, luscious lollipop.
For Thursday a senior-freshman tug-of-war was planned, and both classes gathered on the back hill. Great was the excitement, but greater still was the amazement, a few minutes later, when both groups found themselves sprawled on the grass, madly pulling on—a broken rope 1 The judges decided to call it a draw, and the girls went to class, still laughing over the accident.
On Friday the entering ahd graduating classes met again, this time in the more formal atmosphere of Horace Mann terrace, where a reception was given by the seniors. Sherbet, cookies, and mints were served by an able committee under the direction of Kathryn Gavin.
As a fitting climax to an active week, all four classes united to make up a theatre l>arty at the Paramount Theatre on Saturday night. The picture was “Back Street,” starring John Boles and Irene Dunn.
ALUMNAE
Did you know that
Beatrice Escott ’32 is at Smith Agricultural School in Northampton?
Beatrice Vondcrhoop '32 is going to Columbia?
Helen Paul '32 is teaching vocational guidance in Maynard?
Marion Ramsdell '32 is teaching in a junior high school at Sukonk?
Eleanor McDevitt ’32 is married?
Dot Edwards ’32 is a student dietitian at the Union Hospital in Fall River?
Esther Berg '32 is teaching in St. Johns-bury, Vt.?
Florence Gates '32 is teaching in Fishcr-villc?
Helen Conley '32 is teaching at the Union School in Burlington?
Bernice McGilvary '32 was married in Southbridge on July 30, to Dr. Stuart Gibson, of that town?
Winifred Doncilo '31 is teaching grammar school in Rockland?
Sylvia Leavitt (Sally) '32 and Ingrid Erikson '32 are both teaching in Sturbridge ?
Mary Smith '27 is teaching clothing in Belmont?
Eleanor Lawrence, Mildred Heath, and Mary Toledo are teaching in Fairhaven ?
Margaret North and Shirley Lubowitz are taking a fourth year at Worcester Teachers College?
Gertrude Doane '30 was married on September 4 to Mr. Schroeder? The ceremony was performed in the Marblehead Methodist church?
Ethel Wood '30 was married in Amherst on September 1 ? The couple will live in Ithaca, N. V., where the former Mies Wood’s husband is connected with Cornell University?
Helen Courtis '30 is teaching clothing and foods in Claremont, N. H., junior high school?
Gertrude Cook '30 is directing a florist shop and carnation farm in Shrewsbury?
The twenty-ninth biennial meeting of the Alumnae Acsociation was held at May and Horace Mann Halls from Friday evening June 16, until Sunday afternoon June 18, 1932. There was an unusually large attendance. The following officers were elected: Grace E. Bartlett '02, president; Christine Moses Bennett '08, vice-president; Doctor James Chalmers, second vice-president; Mary C. Moore '72, secretary; Annie B. Penniman '03, treasurer; Sarah Fisk White '65, auditor. The executive board consists of the above named officers and the executive committee: Louie G. Ramsdell '02, Antoinette Roof '86, Abbie Bowlley McCartney '12, Lou Lom-bard '12, and Viola Gould Dennett '24.
The alumnae regret the death of Charlotte A. Wood '23, February 13. Florence L. Kenway '09-H.A., March 8. Florence Williams Horne '66, April 22. Ethel Faulkner Boone '03, April 22.
Etta R. Walcott '00, September 11.
Bertha C. Bixby '01, in Shanghai, China. Mcmor'al services were held for her August 28 at Wellesley Hills.
The first fall meeting of the Boston Framingham Club will be held at the Women's Republican Club, 46 Beacon Street, Boston, October 14, at 7 :45.
Of interest to present seniors is the announcement of the marriage on July 19 of Marguerite Vesta Moses of Wakefield, former class member, to Larkin Endicott Bennett. Mrs. Bennett attended the Lesley School after leaving Framingham.
Are You
HARVARD or YALE?
Come out anyway and LEARN THOSE SONGSI
The freshman class was well represented at all the activities of Freshman Week. We hope the new students are better acquainted j and more at home with us now.
When I Was a Girl at Framingham
Can you imagine Normal Hill without the slender brick posts of the Whittemore Memorial Gateway, the gateway given by students of the three classes that were in the normal school the year of Mr. Whittemore’s retirement? Can you imagine it without the evergreens which cluster about this memorial, evergreens which arc the gifts of graduates of the school? Can you substitute for Horace Mann Hall with the stately row of columns across its terrace a three-story wooden building, Normal Hall, which burned one February night in 1914? Can you forget Peirce Hall completely, and sec instead a single tennis court laid out behind Normal Hall? If you can, you will sec wherein the campus of Normal Hill a quarter of a century ago differed from the campus of today.
Otherwise Normal Hill looked much the same as it does now, when my roommate and I first approached with curiosity, elation, and timidity the front floor of Crocker Hall. The tiny matron, impressive in her rustling taffeta petticoat—with ruffles, I am certain -led us up one flight of stairs, down a long, slippery hall, and up another flight of stairs, at the top of which she left us in a room tucked under the caves, a room with only one window, in fact, the smallest room on the third floor of Crocker—but the only junior room on a whole, floor of senior rooms!
Perhaps you are wondering why students in the Elementary department entered Crocker Hall their first year, and why they were called juniors and not freshmen. The Framingham Normal School in the early 1900’s contained approximately two hundred and fifty students; the course was two years in length for students both in the Elementary and in the Household Arts department. Since the Household Arts department had been established herein Framingham for only a few years, most of Crocker Hall and part of Normal Hall were occupied by the boarding students in the Elementary department. There were, if I recall correctly, only ten or fifteen Household Arts students at that time, and there was no home management group as there is now at Crocker.
Does life in a dormitory change in a generation or two? The question is yours to answer. Here are a few facts. The first grave problem that puzzled my roommate and me after the matron had rustled away from us was this—Is it proper to appear in aprons in the corridor to unpack trunks, especially as the seniors are arriving with enthusiastic shouts and squeals and hugs? Then we faced a more momentous decision —How does one behave at a Saturday-night spread several seniors have condescended to invite juniors to join? You see, we had overheard more than one senior make a caustic remark about the “forwardness of the juniors.”
Gradually we juniors left behind us such serious questions. We began to feel more at home; we became acquainted with our classmates, the seniors, and the faculty. Yes, there were five members of the faculty living in Crocker Hall then, two on the third floor, three on the second floor, and the matron, of course, on the first floor. Each half year the students changed tables in the dining room, and went to another table presided over by a member of the faculty. And these faculty were very jolly folk, too. I remember quite distinctly being startled once at breakfast by a question put to me by one whose room was directly across from mine. I had ignored the “lights-out" signal the evening before. With a twinkle in her eye she enquired, “Do you ever talk in your sleep, Miss G?”
Do students today have such extensive wardrobes that they never need to borrow ? Not so “in my day” I Crocker was exceptionally busy one Saturday morning fitting out a junior who was to keep a luncheon engagement at the Touraine in Boston. “Every solitary one of my dresses he has seen.” To an elaborately shirred blouse, at least a size or two too large, we seniors, for we were seniors now, contributed a pale pink tulle chou, at that time a fashionable costume accessory. Beneath her jxiinted chin the bow stuck out boldly to right and
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FACULTY
Mr. Workman s]>cnt the summer as business manager at Brownledgc Camp, Mallett’s Bay on Lake Champlain. On the return trip he visited the ruins at Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point. The views of New York state from the Taconic Trail were especially fine.
Miss Larned took courses at Harvard in Eighteenth Century French Literature with Professor Schinz of the University of Pennsylvania, and in Educational Psychology with Professors Guthrie of the University of Seattle and Dearborn of Harvard.
Miss Larned went to Bridgton, Maine, where she had a very advantageous view of the eclipse on August thirty-first.
Miss Hunt, unassisted, caught a three pound pickerel this summer from the home waters of the Connecticut River.
Miss Ritchie spent this summer visiting at Bar Harbor, Washington, in New York state, and on Cape Cod.
Dean Savage studied at Boston University this summer, taking courses in “History of Art" with Professor Bailey, “Foreign Trade with the Orient” with Professor Hartman, and “History of Commerce" with Professor Hunnewell. She has completed her requirements for the degree, Bachelor of Science in Education, which was awarded her several weeks ago.
Before and after the summer session Dean Savage was at Hampton, N. H.
Doctor Foster spent a month at Province-town, and two weeks in Vermont where he viewed the eclipse.
Miss Buckley was the guest of Miss Coss at Island, Maine, this summer.
Miss Poole, after attending the summer session at Teachers College, Columbia, took a trip to Ontario by way of the White Mountains and the Adirondacks.
Mr. Reid spent July as the director of the summer session of the Designer’s Art School in Boston. During August he was with his family at Provincetown.
Miss Kingman spent the summer at her little log cabin, Newfield, Maine.
Miss Allan enjoyed a quiet, restful summer at her home here in Framingham.
Miss Russell traveled in Europe, visiting England, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and France. She landed at Liverpool and traveled by motor bus to London, visiting, on her way, Kenilworth Castle, Chester Cathedral, Warwick Castle, and the Shakespeare region. From Harwich, England, she crossed to the Hook of Holland.
Miss MacMillan was happy to return to her home in Beverly Hills, California, for the summer months. The trip was made by the Santa Fe route across the southern states. Much of her time in California was spent at the Santa Monica beach and Casa Del Mar Club. Among the interesting events which Miss MacMillan attended were the opening and equestrian events of the Olympic Games, polo games, and symphony concerts at the Hollywood Bowl.
Bread Loaf School of English
Studying for a degree has its |>eculiar charms, no doubt; but studying solely for the fun of it now appeals to me more. This past summer I s|>ent six weeks at the Middlebury Colle -e Summer School of English on Bread Loaf Mountain in Vermont. Middlebury College has five summer schools: French, Italian, and Spanish schools on the campus, a lovely plateau ringed about with mountains; a German school near by in the village of Bristol; and the English school in the old inn on Bread Loaf.
The English school enrolled about one hundred students this year—most of them teachers of English studying for the Master’s Degree, many of them men and women from the West and South. Among other subjects, courses are offered in play writing and play production by a staff of distinguished men and women from all over the country, college professors, the poet Theodore Morrison, and the essayist Walter Pritchard Eaton.
Evening entertainments included several plays given by students of the school— among them a one act play by O'Neil and the beloved Alice, as up to date as ever.
At the first meeting of the Commuters’ Club last year, it was decided to connect the club with the Student Government Association if the latter’s permission could be obtained. Under this new plan, the commuters would abandon monthly meetings and gather in small grou|>s to discuss their hobbies. The group leaders would make a report of each meeting to the president. The literary group which has already been started, conducted a business meeting as well as a social meeting last year.
As it has been very hard in the past to have all the commuters present at a meeting of the club, this plan seemed most feasible. A committee under Miss Savage's leadership worked out a plan which has been approved by the commuters and accepted by the Student Government Association.
MAQUA
Put on your little red cap and whist! it is June 18 and you are at Maqua, that delightful Y.W.C.A. camp in Poland, Maine, with Alice Marshall, Gertrude Cleary, and myself, the Framingham delegates to the Student Conference. What a glorious place Maqua is! Planted on the edge of a magnificent lake in the midst of green bills, we find that source of new friendships.
Maqua has its swimming, boating, tennis, and hiking—we all enjoy its sports—but there is a characteristic atmosphere which stimulates ideas and reaches into the very heart for the finest that we have to give.
The conference leaders who help us to see its value are eager to share their experiences and ideas with us. Dr. Alexander Purdy, who gives the morning platform talk, has chosen a subject in which we are all interested, “Values We Can Live by in a Chaotic Society”; and Jane Sadler, a fine colored woman, is helping us to understand the part worship has to play in our daily living. The discussions, based on the platform talk, are led by splendid people, among them our own Ann Silver and Tirza Ann Dinsdale from the Metropolitan Student Headquarters. Interesting groups offered for special study are “Racial Contributions to Culture," delightfully handled by Sue Bailey Thurman, another charming negress; “Modern Women,” effectively presented by Elizabeth Donovan of Wellesley; and “World Interest,” led by Dr. Currier.
We Framingham people are comparing notes with our cottage mates—girls from Colby College, Castine Normal School, and the Newton Hospital. Living near us arc delegates from the Universities of Maine md North Dakota, Boston University and Sargent School of Physical Education, New Hampshire State College, Bates, Simmons, Dennison, Colby Junior College, Nasson Institute, Gorham and Washington Normal Schools. From these delegates is developed the nucleus of our 1932-33 program.
And now it is our last night. There is quiet singing on the shore of the lake, an Impressive candlelight service in Recreational Hall, lingering and whist I we have left Maqua.
Now that we have had this wonderful exiwrlence, what are we going to do with it?
Betty Gouuj.
Visiting lecturers, some of them like T. H. Dickenson and Clayton Hamilton, authorities in the drama, came for several days to work and play with us,—among them Claude Fuess, the new biographer of Daniel Webster, and the actor, Otis Skinner.
Week-ends saw a great exodus, for the Bread Loaf campus of 33,000 acres includes five mountains where blazed trails and open-faced huts await the hiker. Later afternoons canoeing or swimming at Lake Dunmore we heard four foreign languages spoken, not always haltingly, at least as often as we did English. Too perfect an existence? No. Many a voice is lifted up
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Freshmen Undergo Physical Examination
During the first week of school the freshman class was examined at Crocker Hall by Dr. Regan, assisted by Miss Robbins, Miss Taylor, and Miss Hunt.
A health record for each girl was placed on file. All freshmen had been examined by their own physicians before entering the college, and this supplementary examination was in the nature of a check-up on their former records.
CLASS AND CLUB
COUNCIL HOUSE PARTY
(Continued from page 1, column 3) Shcrborn. Some were interested in the Medfield State Hospital, others in cider mills, still others in observing society on a hunt.
Saturday night and no movies—but you never saw Lcttice Mitchell conducting a barn dance, or “Lizzie” West in charge of hilarious games. To top off the evening, refreshments of somores, toasted marshmallows, and cider were served. Sunday morning, in a chaotic state of preparation for the return trip, the girls rushed hither and yon cramming every minute full of activity and fun. The taxi was waiting at three o'clock and the “giddy gang" that you saw return bearing half the apples in the orchards of Shcrborn, and carrying enough blankets for all the spectators at a Harvard-Yale game, was the same group that departed Friday. Where was the dignity? We blush I
COMMITTEES FOR STUDENT GOVERNMENT DANCE CHOSEN
(Continued from page 1, column 5) dance is open to the entire student body and both May and Peirce Halls will be used. Those serving on committees are
General Chairman—Mary Partridge Business Manager—Annette Pierce Decoration — Geraldine Winchenbaugh, Gwendolyn Swanson, Theodatha Hoitt
Refreshment—Ruth Parker, Marie Blaikie Patrons and Patronesses—Marion Crit-tendon, Josephine Czclusniak.
Dance order—Priscilla Cairns.
Usher—Faith Sinccrbeau, Dorothy Seisig Music—Dorothy Gilman, Hazel Ramsay Clean-up—Mildred Sullivan.
BREAD LOAF SCHOOL
OF ENGLISH
(Continued from page 3, column 5) to lament, especially Saturdays and Sundays, the very fact that there are so many nice things to do at Bread Loaf. “I’d almost rather be at Harvard or Columbia; then I shouldn't keep thinking I was in a summer camp, with nothing to do but play I” Fun? Yes, both kinds.
Marjorie Sparrow.
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Class of 1935 Loses Thirteen Members
Among the girls from last year’s freshman class who have not returned to college this year arc the following: Ruth Northrop, Marjorie Jones, Louise Monson, Emily Bridgham, Leah Flcaglc, Ruth Sweetser, Marion Cavcrly, Laura Robinson, Caroline Hosmer, Louise Obanyoun Helen Craffey, Helen Nisbet, and Margaret Bassey. We extend best wishes to those who have chosen other fields.
WHEN I WAS A GIRL
AT FRAMINGHAM
(Continued from page 3, column 3) to left, for all the world like the whiskers on the Cheshire Cat, but the junior was delighted and the seniors applauded their handiwork.
Every dormitory has on its menu at least one “special.” Crocker’s was corncakcs and milk for Sunday night supper. To eat this dessert successfully demanded skill, but once the skill was acquired everything went well. One Sunday night a dignified gentleman appeared at one of the tables as the guest of a student. Unfamiliar with the way of corncakcs and milk, he failed to wait until the milk had done its part properly. With unusual force he bore his spoon down on the cake—the milk flew and the cake slipped swiftly but surely into the lap of the girl sitting across the table.
Life at Crocker Hall reached a’ climax, or one of its climaxes, on the Saturday before Thanksgiving Day, for on that day occurred regularly the basket-ball game between Crocker Hall and Normal Hall. This game was, of course, the ancestor of the present Harvard-Yale game with its attendant festivities, but it was a game in which there existed great rivalry, because the members of the teams were chosen from the two dormitories rather than from less defined groups in the whole student body. First, the game was played; then the winning team, singing its victory song, marched off through the subway to its dormitory, and the defeated team followed, wailing its dirge; in the evening everyone danced in the gymnasium, and then talked incessantly into the early hours of the morning over what “might have been.”
You may feel that you have caught only a glimpse of the life of a normal school student a quarter of a century ago. You arc right! Students studied then as they do now; they had their training in the Practice School, which at that time occupied all the rooms on the first floor of May Hall; and they played tennis and walked to the Reservoir and to Gordon’s Bridge. It is true that they wore long skirts; tailored shirt-waists, above the stiff collars of which they often wound a yard and a half of ribbon, finished in an enormous bow beneath the chin; and their hair “pugged.” These very students to-day will laugh heartily with you at the peculiarities of the early 1900's, but they will concede to the students of the State Teachers College at Framingham in the 1930’s no greater loyalty to their Alma Mater than they themselves have always borne this self same school.
Maude B. Gehritson.
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PEIRCE HALL HOUSE MEETING
Miss Keith: “Permissions arc needed if a student is to go riding with friends or with family.”
Freshic: “Well, do we have to have a permission when we arc at home weekends?”
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DINING ROOM
M. M.: "May I be excused?”
Freshic: "I’m sure I don’t know.” * * * *
CROCKER HALL
Kiely, making mayonnaise: “Gee, my heart is weak. I’m afraid this will curdle.”
Smith, an experienced mayonnaise maker: "Yuh, mine curdled twice this summer.”
Kiely, in all seriousness: “What, your heart?”
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HAVE YOU HEARD—
The Nantucket Boat and the Nantucket Sea Gulls?
Hello, fellow freshmen 1
That somebody wanted Mr. Hardy, the president, on the telephone?
That some of us shopped in the South Framingham Five and Ten and rode back in a taxi?
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Orsi: “I soaked this finger in the bathtub.”
Osborne: “You didn’t get into the tub just for the finger, did you?" ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
The Elementary seniors, because of their teaching obligations, could not attend Field Day. A supper was left for them in charge of “Sab”.
One senior piped up: “I want a rebate.” ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Orsi: “Is black mold bacteria?”
Orborne: “No.”
Orsi: “But it feeds on bread.”
Osborne: “So do I." ♦ * ♦ *
“Wags”: Last Sunday .1 had six pair;
of stockings; now I have two.”
Brier: "What did you do with them?” “Wags”: "Oh, I made runs in ’em.” Brier: “What for?”
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Dr. Meier: “Do all bacteria move by flagella?"
Dunham: “All living ones do, but the dead ones don’t.”
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“Wags”: “What is the greatest contribution chemistry has given Framingham?”
“Condit”: “Blondes.”
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Betty Gould, speaking of Shcrborn: “We saw a hunting party go by; one woman was riding side saddle.”
“Gin" Rhoades: “Oh, that's the way I always go home.”
Betty Gould: “What, side saddle?”
FRESHMAN WEEK!!!!
Have you seen the freshmen carrying queer boxes	for	their	senior	sisters?
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Clean	up	week	for	the	seniors???
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THINGS HEARD AT RIVERSIDE
Miss Kingman: “Will this be in the Sunday Times?"
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Grandstand: “We want Miss Poole."
Doctof Foster: "We’re far enough behind, as it is." ♦	♦	♦	♦
Freshman: "Take it easy, Harpo." ♦	♦	♦	*
Grandstand: “Come on, ‘Stcwy.’” *	*	*	*
Grandstand: "Look who’s up—‘Uncle Dudley’ 1”
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Miss Kingman, after hitting a foul ball: “Do I run now?”
Miss Taylor: "Wait until you hit it, first.”
THINGS SEEN AT RIVERSIDE
Mr. Archibald doing a beautiful split on his way to first base.
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The Neponset, A. A. member. ♦	♦	*	♦
Mr. Archibald's choice of bats.
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Doctor Foster’s home run. ♦	♦	♦	♦
Dr. Meier skipping first base and sliding to second.
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Cardboard forks and ham.
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CAN YOU PICTURE
A courting radius of five miles?
Crocker kitchen shift without matching problems?
Framingham without its bleached blondes?
A chorus of serious seniors?
Lights on in Horace Mann at 1 :OO?
“Marge” Brier looking for a man?
Rita Simons without her "face"?
“Winnie” Danforth flunking out?
“Dot" O’Day and Loretta Kiely rooming on first floor in Crocker?
“Wags” Wagner without her letters?
Ethel Adams without “Charlie”?
Elsie Turgiss unprepared?
Ruth Sweeney in a hurry?
“Gerry” Winchenbaugh without a man?
“Seccor” without "Bill”?
SPORTS
Harvard-Yale mass meeting was held Monday night, September 26. Cheer leaders were tried out, and both sides are well on their way to organization. Harvard-Yale week-end is only a few weeks off and if you’re wise you'll save November 19, when you will see the most thrilling games of the season.
Fall hockey practice is well under way and we are anticipating many lively games. Even if you don’t play a good game, come on out for the fun and exercise.
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Annual Athletic Conference of Mass. State Teachers Colleges
Program for conference at Framingham, November 6 and 7.
Friday, November 6.
7:30 Breakfast at Peirce Hail.
9:00 Opening Assembly—Athletic Association. President presiding.
Welcome address by president of I	Athletic Association.
Glee Club (under direction of Mr. Archibald).
Welcome address by President Bagnall.
Speaker.
10:15 Business meeting — Assembly Hall (May).
11:00 General session—Assembly Hall.
“College Athletics for Recreational Purposes Rather than for Com-pctition.”
1.	How competition may be guided so as to retain a recreational spirit. Lowell.
2.	How are Play Days a real asset to a recreational program ? Fitchburg. •
3.	How W. A. A. can cooperate with the physical education department in fostering a recreational attitude. Westfield.
12:15 Luncheon at Peirce Hall.
After luncheon all delegates please register in Peirce Hall living room.
1:00 Fashion show—model problems of each class.
2	:00 Round Table discussions — Crocker Hall.
1.	Are we inclined to take games too seriously? Framingham.
2.	Docs the average girl benefit by competition ? Hyannis.
3.	To what extent should athletic awards be used to arouse interest in sports? North Adams.
4.	Ways and means of arousing interest in athlet'C associations? Bridgewater.
3	:00 General session—Assembly Hall. Summaries of round table discussions.
4:30 Faculty and visitors are invited to a tea in Crocker Hall.
5	:45 Dinner in Peirce Hall.
7	:30 Entertainment and dancing. Saturday, November 7.
7	:30 Breakfast in Peirce Hall.
9:00 Conference picture.
10:00 Activities program.
12:15 Luncheon at Peirce Hall.
1	:00 Final business meeting — Assembly Hall. •
Committees for Conference.
Hospitality.
Social.
Refreshments.
Decorations.
Entertainment.
Activities.
Officers.
Faculty adviser.
Plan to Attend THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT INFORMAL!
October 29
Compliments of the JUNIOR CLASS