STUDENT CO-OPERATIVE
DANCE COMING
Freshmen Found
Guilty
YALE BULLDOG SNAPS
AT JOHN HARVARD
Hallowe’en Atmosphere
Dimmed lights — and the rhythmic beat of an orchestra will he heard as Framingham’s daughters once again bewitch young escorts amid the fantastic and spooky decorations of their traditional Hallowe’en dance, A “double dance’’ or a “single dance”?—Its popularity with you will decide; but whichever course is taken the evening is sure to hold gay, delightful hours for every dancer, and serve as a very pleasant introduction to the activities of the winter months.
The dance, which will be held from 8:30 to 12:30, will be informal and is, as is customary, sponsored by the Student Co-operative Association. The date, of course, is very close to that made mysteriously famous as Hallowe’en, and is Friday, October 26. The affair, if “double”, will be arranged so that the freshmen and sophomores entertain in May Hall and the juniorsand seniors in Peirce Hall, if the subscription decrees a “single” the dance for all classes will be. held in Peirce Hall. These arrangements, naturally, are tentative because of the uncertain progress of the construction at Peirce Hall; but the dance is sure to be held somewhere, and every girl who is going may certainly look forward to the pleasure that is in store for her.
The dance chairmen are: Betty Whitney, business manager; Betty Holmes, programs and tickets; Mary Nolan, orchestra; Nancy Renton, checking, Engla Anderson, refreshments; Evelyn LeFort, ushers and patronesses; Dorothy Arinson, decorations for Peirce Hall; Marie Brady, decorations for May Hall; Helen Howe, clean-up.
Archery
Demonstration
Miss Anne Ball of the Sargent School of Physical Education gave an archery demonstration at F. T. C. on October 9. Miss Ball explained the care and use of the tackle, how to gage distance in shooting, and demonstrated the correct form for archery.
Following Miss Ball’s demonstration came the freshman-senior tug of war, in which the seniors won the first two tugs out of three.
The tugging over, members of A. A. assembled on the back hill where there was a very swanky hot-dog roast with all the fixin's.
October Bride
Ruth Nourse Patten ’34 was married on Friday, October 12, to Russell Lewis Fleming of Leominster. Mr. Fleming is a graduate of the Boys’ Trade School in Worcester and is employed in the architectural field. After a trip along the New England coast they will reside in North Leominster.
For Flowers
Phone 3533 BUTTERWORTH’S Framingham, Mui.
Featured Speaker
Mr. Frederick Ried
Mr. Ried was the featured guest speaker of the Art department at the convention held. by the New Hampshire Teachers Association at Manchester, N. H., on October 11, 1934. His topic was “Art In Relation To Public Schools.”
Mr. Ried considered the changes which have taken place in art departments in the last twenty-five years, tracing the development through three periods—the pioneer stage or Henry Turner Bailey, the adaptive or free expression period of the present day, and pointing out the development of appreciation courses independent of art. Mr. Ried showed how the increased numbers enrolled in .art classes have necessitated these changes, which have been adopted with the purpose of enabling students to derive the maximum value from their training in art.
Formal Inauguration of Caps and Gowns
The initial procession of household arts, vocational and elementary degree seniors took place on Monday, October 1, at the Chapel exercises.
President Bagnall congratulated the members upon their new station in life, and spoke of the dignity and significance of the cap and gown.
Hosts to Freshmen
The freshmen were officially presented to the members of the faculty at the faculty-freshman reception in May Hall on October 5. President and Mrs. Bagnall, Dean Savage, and Marjorie Studley, president of the Student Co-op.erative Association, were in the receiving line.
Miss Cushing, Miss Ramsdell, Miss Rochefort, Miss Lombard, and Miss French, acting as hostesses, introduced the students to other members of the faculty.
Marigolds, asters, dahlias, and other fall flowers made of May Hall a very pretty setting for the occasion. Music was furnished by Lloyd Palmer, Miss Margery Henienway and Linwood Workman, Jr.
The affair was in charge of Miss Hunt, chairman, and Miss Poole, Miss Taylor, and Miss MacMillan.
With all due solemnity the senior judge called the high court to order, and the clerk proceeded to call the roll. The case of the seniors versus the freshmen offenders now began. A few of the outstanding offenses and sentences imposed on the offenders follow.
Case No. 1. Offense—Young drill expert commands her confederates to drop their curtsies in military fashion more for effect than in reverence to seniors.
Sentence—Accused shall reenact her performance for public exhibition.
Case No. 2. Offense—Youth is bored by institutional weekends.	.
Sentence—Accused shall lecture on subject of boredom. (Accused failed to give satisfactory exposition.)
Case No. 3. Offense—Freshman personifies over self-confidence, as she swaggers in.
Sentence — Accused shall recount domestic routine of early morning activities. (As an anticlimax the accused treated her attendance at this revered pinnacle of education with a touch of scorn. Recall of above defendant, charged with contempt of court. First apology, lacking in sincerity, not accepted by the jury, later a slightly improved version passed the board.)
Case No. 4. Offense—Mere freshman demonstrated a perverted sense of humor by upsetting the resting place of a venerable senior.
Sentence—Accused shall spend one month at hard labor, to wit, bed-making.
During the trial innocent by-standers were reprimanded for outbursts of laughter, but all were allowed to remain in court. Solemnity of the proceedings was entranced through the efforts of two operatic aspirants, who rendered selections with heartfelt emotion.
After the issuing of final orders regarding ribbons and the respect to be paid both faculty and seniors court was adjourned.
F reslnnan-Senior Hike
The freshman-senior hike was staged on September 14, and included scaling the steep slopes of Nobscott Mt.
Upon reaching the summit the girls enjoyed a most delicious lunch. When the fire had died down, freshman groups presented stunts: Very excellent ones they were, too. The group including Virginia Kiely, Lillian Reese, Elizabeth Foster, Edith Yuill, and Dorothy Quinn won recognitioij for their presentation of the song, “Down by the Old Mill-Stream” with appropriate gestures.
The first prize (bestowed upon this group) was the honor of being allowed to carry the lunch-baskets home. The second prize, awarded also to this group for its excellent performance, was the honor of carrying milk cans and more baskets.
Every one seemed to have a “keen” time despite the long tramp.
The Alpha-Bet
Framingham Centre
"Where college girls shop”
Hockey Deciding Game
Student
Representative
Miss Barbara Kxapp
At the Intercollegiate Conference on October 5, Barbara Knapp, secretary of the Framingham club, was elected state representative of the student home economics clubs of Massachusetts. For the first time in the history of home economics clubs a student has been chosen to be state representative, working with the advisory committee for student home economics clubs. Framingham feels honored to have this position filled by one <>f our students.
Hampton Quartet Coming
Once more the Gate Post takes pleasure in heralding the coming of an old favorite—the Hampton Quartet, whose program of Southern negro songs will be presented during the assembly period on November 15. The quartet Represents Hampton Institute, a normal sell ol and agricultural school for neu es at Hampton, Virginia, and has, for) nany years, toured the country, with ever increasing popularity. The members have always expressed keen pleasure in their visit at Framingham, a pleasure that is mutual, for the Hampton singers are always warmly welcomed on the hill.
Questions
1.	Who is known as "Der Fuehrer”?
2.	Who wrote the “Count of Monte Cristo”?
3.	Who was the fourteenth president of the United States.
4.	What does word Australia mean?
5.	Where are the Himalaya Mts. ?
6.	Where is the Isle of St. Helena?
7.	What two states observe April 19 as a legal holiday?
8.	What river is known as the American Rhine?
9.	Where was the Liberty Bell cast?
10.	When is Mardi-Gras celebrated?
11.	Where is yellow worn for mourning?
12.	Where is the highest cross of gold in the world?
(Answers on page 4, col. 1)
Engagement
A recent announcement of interest was that of the engagement of Norma Chellis Trask '35 to Warren Albert Peters of Hudson.
“She’s buying a Harvard banner— what do you know about that 1 Another beau: and as if she didn’t have—”
"Shh ! Not so loud ! Do you want everyone in the store to know that you don’t know about Harvard-Yale weekend?”
"Of course 1 know about it; everybody does. It’s going to be at Cambridge this year—”
“That's where you're wrong! It’s going to be at Framingham just as it has been for years—we have our own “Harvard-Yale” weekend: you just choose the side you want to root for, go to the mass meetings that are announced in chapel, and, take it from me, that'll be the weekend that you’ve missed all your life I”
A sign on a door "Keep out 1 Cheer leaders practising;” a snatch of a Harvard song whirled down from dormitory windows by the lively autumn breeze; an excited group of girls hanging their new Yale banners—what is this gay new spirit that has taken pos- . session of our campus? Ah, there you have it! Once more the old Yale bulldog is chasing Johnny Harvard round _ the hockey field! Chances are even' and what a triumph for the victors I We won't urge you to come—there’s no need ! All we have to say is “What’s your color? Do you like excitement? Can you yell?” Ah, then we’ll see you at “Harvard-Yale.” That's your weekend I
For Harvard basketball captain you’ll cheer Helen Archibald, hockey Fro Georgas; for Yale basketball hurrahs for Rita Kelly, hockey, Anna Smith.
Chairmen of Harvard committees are: Dining room, Helen Tomasz; costumes, Korin Johnson; Mock Man dance, Louise Hamel; cheer leaders, Mary Murphy (head), Ruby Wilson, Phyllis Sparhawk; toast mistress, Esther Howe.
Yale committees are headed by Agnes Milligan, dining room; Kay Montague, costumes; Blanid Queeney, Mock Man dance; Mini Rothkoph, Eleanor Rhode, Eleanor Morse, cheer leaders; Bette King, toast mistress. Nancy Renton will have charge of the theatre party on Saturday night.
Mr. Lauriston
Bullard To Speak
“Keep Pace with Current Affairs” is the title of the interesting current events talk to be given in the assembly period on October 29 by the chief editorial writer of the Poston Herald, Mr. F. Lauriston Bullard. Mr. Bullard has been a newspaper man for many years and was the winner of the Pulitzer editorial prize in 1926. To his credit as an author he has numerous magazine articles and books. His long study of men and affairs may be relied upon to make his talk an exceptionally interesting presentation of current events.
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Travis Drug Store
THE GATE POST
Published every month during the school year by the State Teachers College, Framingham, Massachusetts
STAFF FOR 1934-35
VIEWS OF A FRESHMAN
Editor Mary Nolan, '35 Assistant Editor Marion Davis, ’35 Foard of Editors
Literary—Gwcnivere Caverly, '35
Sports—Miriam Rothkoph, ’35
Social—Hildegard Osterlund, ’36 News—Jocelyn Case, ’37
Alumnae—Florence Cavanagh, ’35
Training School—Katherine Montague, '35 Reporters
Marcia Donovan, ’35
Helen Chase, '37
Circulation
Hazel Walker, '35
Virginia Giffin, ’36
Marion Morse, ’35
Artist
Betty King, ’35 Advertising
Lorraine Larson, ’35 Sales Eorcc
Typing Staff
Faculty Adviser Miss Larned
Literary Advisers
OCTOBER 22, 1934
Ruby Wilson, ’37
Betty Whitney, '35
Miss Sparrow
Miss Gerritson
Why Did You Come To College?
A month has passed since you arrived on the campus. What kind of month has it been, or rather what kind of month have you made it? The world outside has been rainy and gloomy for the most part; how has your world been inside?
By now you have selected your course of study (or someone has selected it for you). You have expressed your opinion of the faculty, student government, the newspaper, the smoking rule, socks, and last, but by no means least, the new mailing system. If you live on the campus, you have complained about having to retire at ten o’clock, and to prove >your dissatisfaction you have, by this time, put up the traditional black paper behind your transom and stuffed your keyhole. If you live off campus you have not failed to tell the “dorm” girls what a good movie you saw the other night, or what a good orchestra you heard, and that you simply have not cracked a book!
If you are a freshman you’ve told your envious classmates about all , of your boy friends; or perhaps you’ve let on that you didn’t want to come to college but your folks simply made you come! I f you are a senior you have spent much time talking about your freshman days and trying to keep the tassel of your motor board from hitting you in the eye.
But whether you are freshman, sophomore, junior or senior does not matter. The really important thing is, now that you are here, what do you intend to do about it? Do you intend to shut yourself out of the world, and out of the life of the college? Are you going to be a “bookworm” ? Are you going to “squeeze through” ? Are you planning to sit by and do a lot of criticizing without offering any constructive suggestions? Do you wish to be remembered for nosing around to find things that don't suit you, or do you want to be remembered for doing something to make your college better? Will your form of amusement be the pastime of talking about your friends, or will you find recreation on the athletic field? Will you co-operate with your class and club officers, or will you try to tell them how they should manage their affairs? Will you be loyal to your college, your friends, and your ideals or will you ignore all campus associations? In other words, ask yourself today this question, “Why did I come to college?”
Vandalism
Vandalism has reached our campus; some of the benches in Chal-mer’s Theatre have been ruthlessly ripped up. Time, effort, and money have been put into the planning and building of this out-door theater; that it would be visited by vandals never entered any one’s mind. Is destruction to be the fate of other outdoor improvements? Will the new fountain donated by the 1934 Dial staff, or the fireplaces built and presented by the class of 1937 be the next objects of attack? Must we hesitate in the future to accept such gifts which enrich our outdoor college life? Certainly not. This is not the first time the campus has been invaded by unwelcome visitors. We feel that now is the time to make examples of the culprits. They must, however, be apprehended, and we hope that extra vigilance on the part of our students and watchmen may soon discover their identity. Although corjioral punishment is not often regarded with favor in these days, an old-fashioned whipping might prove the solution of our problem.
—M. D.
BATES STATIONERY CO.
Irvin* Square	Framingham
Pens	Stationery
School Supplies '
Dormitory—Engla Anderson, '36 /•'acuity—Marion Davis, '35 Humor—Agnes Milligan, '35 Commuters—Dorothy Bell, '36 Exchange—Ingrid Vincent, '35
Finance
Margaret Manvel, ’35
Evelyn Winship, ’36
Helen Louise Howe, '37
WELLWORTH TEA ROOM
LUNCHEON	DINNERS
ICE CREAM
71 Concord St. Next to Theatre
I know that I shall never see A Senior curt’sy unto me, While ’round her head an emerald band Proclaims her freshness to the land.
If things should be reversed some day And we o’er Seniors could hold sway, I'd take revenge in fiendish glee
For all the things they've done to me.
“Salute the sundial,” they command, “For one whole month. And let thy hand
No lipstick on thy visage smear, For watchful Seniors hover near.
“Napkins round necks at Peirce each night,
It matters not if you look a sight!
Side doors of buildings arc meant for you,
And you must stay off the sidewalks, too.
"Waken thy sister at dawning light, Sweep her rugs, fetch her wash, bring her flowers bright;
Run all her errands with willing feet, For she’s the salt of the earth, the elite.” •
Now, though I know 1’11 never sec A Senior curt’sy unto me,
Still, I can think what might occur, If in their place we Freshmen were!
’ — M. S. ’38.
THE HOME ROAD
“Good night, Lucia.”
“Good night, Ruth. Say, Ruth, what time is it?”
“Ten past twelve. You all packed?” “Uh-huh. You?”
“I’ve a few more things to put in. I'm going to get up at four-thirty. Want me to call you?”
“I’ll be up before you. I promised to call the rest. Good night.”
“Good night, Lucia,” and Ruth went upstairs to her room.
For a long time I lay awake. Tomorrow—no, today—I was going home.
A few hours later I awoke. No lying abed this morning. Just as my feet struck the floor, I heard Rhoda’s alarm clock ring. Four-thirty I
A faint pink blush was in the sky as I hurried up to “Desperation” to call Ila and down to Syracusan for Anne. They were already up. Before long, we had all gathered at Hunger-Din for the last time—we volunteer teachers. As it was a special early breakfast, there were no students in the room. At our table was the forced gaity which always precedes farewells.
At that, I had no intimation of just how great the wrench of parting was to be ’til I reached Gloria. Sitting on the porch, with freshly laundered shirts and faces were “Red” and Charles— two of the younger boys. I was not surprised to see “Red.” He was one of the boys with whom I had done a good deal of outside work while at Caney; but Charles—I had labored long hours with him, and had come to the conclusion that my labors had been mostly in vain. Now, at my departure, to realize that Charles had gotten up an hour early just to say good-bye to me—well 1
Of my departure from the campus, I can say little. In a letter to me, afterwards, Anne wrote, “Do you remember those big eyes watching our departure, Lucia? You know what a ‘weak woman’ I am about that, but I get busy and try to think of something else”—and that goes for me, too!
One experience with the J. W. and M. (jolt wagon and mule) had been enough for me. For a week after my trip into Caney, I had two black and
blue ridges across my back where I had jounced against the slats of the wagon seat, and I had no desire for a repeat performance. Although the other teachers decided to take the jolt wagon to Hindman, I elected instead to walk. One of the college girls, Alpho, was to walk with me, but since we wished to avoid any trouble—I was not supposed even to talk to her—I started out alone.
I have no idea just how many times creek and road cross in the eight miles between Pippapass and Hindman, but I think forty would be a conservative estimate. The first few fords I carefully crossed on stepping stones, but after a time I came to a place where it was necessary to jump from rock to rock. As the soles of my shoes were slippery, I decided discretion was the better part of valor, so I waded in. Creek and road followed the same path at this place, so I plodded upstream. After I once got in, the water wasn’t so bad, so when Alpho finally caught up with me, I was still wading the creek, although the road had climbed to dry land.
.Alpho and I talked and sang, and before I realized it, we had left Caney Creek, climbed Caney Mountain, and descended into the valley through which ran Troublesome.
It was while following a ford down Troublesome that my foot slipped, and I almost fell.
“That’s slick,” said Alpho gravely.
For a moment I was too surprised to speak. Alpho was never sarcastic. Suddenly it occurred to me that “slick” was the mountain expression for slippery, so. I agreed that it was “slick.”
The jolt wagon did not pass us until we reached the very outskirts of Hindman. There our party split again— Anne and I going on by car—called bus through politeness—to Hazard just as soon as a few minor details—like changing shoes and stockings and consuming an ice-cream soda—had been attended to.
Hazard is an unattractive town. The long rows of shacks, each exactly like road leads, on the outskirts, through its neighbor. There is little that is picturesque in a Kentucky coal-mining town, and mentally I gave thanks that, for a while at least, Pippapass was free of large-scale mining operations.
In Hazard, I visited a 5 and 10 to buy a few things, and for a moment, I wished fervently that Miss Armstrong might be with me to enjoy the sign above the candy counter, which suggested—Gum for Teacher!
Hazard is all mountain. The people who took the bus out of Hazard were, in the main, typical mountaineers— tall, lean, gray-eyed.
The road, for the most part, winds through valleys, among a maze of steep-sloped hills. Gradually the valleys widen, the hillsides become less steep, and the hilltops less high. At last it sweeps into the bluegrass— which isn’t blue at all, but a queer shade of green.
In place of the thin, long-eared, mules of the mountains, we saw sleek horses, grazing beside waterholes. Instead of the gaunt mountain cows, herds of fat Herefords raised their heads to gaze at the bus. Between us and the setting sun—beautiful as sunsets are never beautiful in the mountains—a flock of sheep were peacefully grazing. The tiny, black-shingled, one
Boston-F ramingham Club Meets
At the first meeting of the Boston-Framingham Chib-held at the Vesper George School of Art on Saturday, October 20, Miss Antoinette Roof, the president, in her welcoming remarks, included Mrs. Elizabeth Cushing Taylor’s greeting to the classes of 1933 and 1934 at their induction into the Alumnae Association at the June Biennia!.
Miss Roof said that Mrs. Taylor's welcome might well be a welcome to the members of all Framingham Clubs. We quote it in full.
Framingham, June 16th, 1934.
“And so do roads and days and years come to an end,
But new roads open up, and new days lend
Their lengths to make new years.”
We of the Alumnae Association have been coming to the end of the Framingham road class by class, year by year, but new roads always open up and some of us have been led to the north, some to the south, others to the east and still others to the west, while a few have been led across the ocean.
But wheresoever the new road has led us. each one of us has taken with her the ideals and inspirations of Framingham; the example of the splendid men and women who have given their lives in service for others, and always before us leading the way, our motto, “Live to the Truth.”
A Framingham graduate takes with her out into the world a priceless treasure, the ability to teach others what she herself has learned; she holds the golden key that can unlock the doors of Beauty and Truth to the eyes of a little child and help him to find for himself the beauty everywhere around him.
And all this because nearly a century ago, a goodly man, with a love for his fellowmen in his heart, planted a little seed. Nutured by patience, hope and love this little seed grew and sent its roots deep down into the earth for strength. It sent its stem reaching upward to God for light, and ever outward and upward its branches have spread, searching for knowledge. Each year have come the blossoms ready to open and give of their fragrance to others.
Members of the Class of 1933 and members of the Class of 1934, you too, have reached the end of the Framingham road. You arc the pewest blossoms ready to give of yourselves in service for others.
We of the Alumnae Association stand at the open door to welcome you into the family circle. We are proud of your achievements and rejoice in your success and are happy to welcome you into our Association.
As a mother comes to depend more and more upon her faithful daughters, so we of the Alumnae Association must ever guard and protect the homefire of loyalty and keep it replenished and burning brightly.
You, this year’s daughters, give us additional strength with your love and devotion as the years bring changes. We must be ready at all times to give our loyal support to whatever is best for our beloved Framingham.
Light your little candle of Faith at our hearthstone, and may it burn with a steady light that will give you strength to walk the new road even when the way seems rough; may it give you courage to face each new day with whatever it brings of joy or trial and may your years be crowned with the blessing that comes in the joy of service for others.
“And so do roads and days and years come to an end,
But new roads open up, and new days lend
Their lengths to make new years.”
—Elizabeth Cushing Taylor ’06.
A style show was given by the students of the Vesper George School. Tea was served by students in peasant costume. The Framingham spirit of friendliness was much in evidence!
story cabins of the mountaineers, with their gray stone chimneys, had disappeared. Instead, through groves tof stately trees, we saw suggestions of old, stately colonial mansions.
We reached Lexington—heart of the bluegrass—just in time to catch a bus for Cincinnati. As Anne and I waited for it to pull out, I looked over the (Continued on page 3, col. 4)
Co mm wren J? ConMe/r«
At the last commuters’ meeting Helen Kunen was elected president of the organization to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Rose Paladino. Gertrude Scagravc was elected secretary.
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In Memoriam
Good ole Hezzy (Heyakiah), that faithful, green Buick which was the means of transporting a certain group of girls from and to Worcester, is no more! Hezzy was an extraordinary car jumping puddles, going by red lights, and hardly needing Pio Benson, at the wheel when he was homeward bound. He leaves his better half, Hcppy, piloted (or otherwise) by Annie Davis, to carry on alone.
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What price chem lecture! Early to bed and early to rise is the motto of the seven girls who take a six-thirty bus from Worcester that they may attend an 8 o’clock class. This means arising at 5 A. M. and proves that the country isn’t the only place where one gets us with the chickens.
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The commuters were entertained at a tea sponsored by Miss Savage and Mrs. Bagnall on October 17, at Horace Mann Hall.
RULES GOVERNING USE OF FIREPLACE ON HILL
1.	There is to be a fire warden and an assistant who shall be elected from members of the class of 1937 and who arc also members of the A. A., preferably dormitory students. After the class of ’37 shall have graduated the A. A. shall have entire charge of the fireplace.
2.	There is to be a faculty fire warden whose duty it shall be to advise student fire wardens. The faculty fire warden shall be elected by the A. A.
3.	Whenever the student wardens shall be absent from the campus permission to use the fireplace is to be granted by the matrons in charge of Peirce Hall.
Directions for use of the fireplace:
1.	Permission for use of fireplace must be obtained from the wardens or from the«matrons as stated above.
2.	The fire wardens shall hold responsible for the care of the fireplace the person seeking permission for the group.
3.	The fire warden shall notify the fire station whenever a fire is to be lighted.
4.	The fire warden shall have charge of all supplies, utensils, and fuel which may be furnished for general use.
Faculty Advisors of Classes and Clubs
Y. W.’ C. A.—Miss Hunt, Miss Carter
Home Economics—Miss Buckley
Fine Arts—Miss French
A'Kempis—Miss Joyce
C. C. C.—Mr. Ried
A. A.—Miss Taylor
Commuters—Miss Savage
Musical Clubs—Mr. Archibald
Student Co-operative—Miss Russell, Miss Nietzold
Chemistry Council—Miss Chase
Class of '35—Dr. Foster
Class of ’36—Miss Kingman
Class of ’37—Miss Cummings
Dial—Mr. Ried
Gate Post—Miss Larned
All service ranks the same with God; there is no last nor first.
Free Speech
CRITICISM
Alumnae News
May I say just a few words in an attempt at constructive criticism of this paper? We realize of course that the editors do all in their power to make the paper successful and enjoyable, but there is something lacking. It hasn’t the "pep” and “vim” of a real college paper. It lacks spontaneity. Is it perhaps because of too close censorship by the faculty? Many school and college papers are run definitely under student authority, and they seem to us to contain something our own paper lacks. The nearest the Gate Post comes to originality is in the dorm notes and the humor column and even these are usually cold and lacking in real mirth provoking material.
Perhaps your answer will be that a paper which is published but once a month can hardly contain all fresh news. Well better not have any paper than fill up a front page with material which no student troubles to read. 1 grant that the articles may be of interest to the alumnae who subscribe, but need they have such a place of prominence ?
The editors can hardly be blamed if no good material is contributed. Come on, reporters, get busy! In a college of over four hundred students there must be more girls capable of writing than are at present contributing—get after them!
Note: Our critic has unfortunately offered none of the “constructive criticism" which her first sentence seemed Io promise. If the Gate Post is to be a newspaper and not a humor magazine, it cannot fill its pages with dormitory doings and funny stories. If it relegates to the inside pages its news items, what would our critic have on the first page ? If she will be more thoughtfully definite, the Gate Post might benefit by this criticism.
LIPSTICK
Just why is lipstick scorned on this campus? That is the question that I’d like satisfactorily answered. I know that there are some replies all ready for me, which I’m afraid I’ve heard many times before. The usual answer is that girls who use lipstick aren’t professional. That’s absurd. Some of the most professional women I know use it, and even paint their fingernails vivid colors. Of course, I’ll admit they are not all school teachers, but after all we are not all going to obtain teaching positions, some of us hope to follow up fashion and design, while others desire to go into commercial food work.
Freshmen come to Framingham full of vim .and vigor. Some, not many, are foolish enough to plaster their lips with paint. Before very long some one (often four or five assume the same responsibility) tells the girls to remove the lipstick. They hound them, telling them how unprofessional it is to use lipstick. I’ll agree there are some who insist upon using too much. All right, let them use it. If you don't bother to explain to them every time you see them that they use too much, you will find that they soon cut down on their supply. The more you talk the more they’ll use it. It always was thus, and it will continue to be so.
The trouble in this college is that the student is often misjudged by her appearance. We all know that you can't judge a book by its cover. Some of our finest literature appears beneath a brilliant cover. Then too, you can find plenty of useless literature that is concealed within a drab cover.
Think it over and try to see it my way. Remember, too much of anything is bad, but a little bit usually doesn't hurt most of us.
Once upon a time, (1 admit that is trite but one does need an introduction) ; Keats said, "Heard melodics are sweet, but those unheard arc sweeter." This might be applied to the rendering of our alma mater songs, and at times to our chapel singing. However, there being a dearth of alumnae information, and having heard it expressed that news was music to the ears of the —shall I say interested, or just “nosey”? I decided to apply Keats' philosophy to my own job with the following results. .
Given : “Heard melodics are sweet”
News, being musical, is sweet.
"Unheard melodies are sweeter.” Therefore: Unheard news is sweeter.
Needless to say, I was tickled to death with the conclusion. No more skulking around trying to unearth news that just didn’t want to be unearthed. I thought I had reached the perfect solution. But had I ? No! There was one flaw. I couldn’t convince the editor that no news was as good as, if not better than, a ream of it. My theory being impracticable, I was told that news might be melodious, but to let it be heard in 350 words or more. (The proceeding oration, dear freshmen, is what is familiarly known as “padding". Can you appreciate the fact that approximately 150 of the required number of words have already been used to little or no effect? The remaining 200 follow.)
Statistics prove cither that the depression is over or two really can live as cheaply as one.
Valeria La Mountain '28 has been married to Hugh G. Kingsley; Marion Norton '30 to Joseph J. Coleman; Elizabeth Moloney '29 to Cecil Gardner ; Mildred Hazard '32 to Robert Chetty (from the University of North Carolina, girls); Phylis Clark to Maurice J. Darling.
If the publication of rumors is ethical, we might add that Alice Merrill '30 is engaged. (To whom we know not.)
Mrs. Barbara Maclay '29 is now living in Ridgewood, N. H.
Mrs. Richard Wharf (Margaret Smith ’29) has a son, born July 22.
Marion Burnell '34 is studying for her M.S. degree at B. U.
Dorothy Smith '28 is teaching in Provincetown.
Verna Wahlbery '34 is a student dietitian at the Waterbury Hospital in Worcester.
.Anna McGinnis '34 of the trio of Murphy, Kelly, and McGinnis is now a student dietitian at the Memorial Hospital in Worcester.
Margaret Coulter ’33 is teaching Foods in the Horace Mann ami the Prince Schools in Boston.
Dorothy Foster '34 is assisting in a small nursery school in Andover.
Priscilla Cairns '34 is studying dieti-tics in the Springfield Hospital.
Miriam Knowlton '33 is teaching Foods and Clothing in Huntington.
Florence Gates '32 is teaching in Andover, Mass.
Vera Richardson '34 is student dietitian at Cleveland, Ohio. Evidently “distance lends enchantment.”
Of all the prayers that fail none fail so completely as those that come from proud hearts.
Engagement
Annoucement
From the Boston Globe, September 9, 1934. “Mrs. Nina M. Blair of Mat-tapan and Chatham announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Barbara Blair, to Mr. John McDonald Provan, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Provan of Quincy.” Miss Blair entered F. T. C. with the household arts class of 1937 but left school last spring to accept a business position. No date has been set for the wedding.
THE HOME ROAD
(Continued from page 2) passengers—wclI-drcSscd, soft-spoken, cultured; in truth, I had left the "Highlands.”
It was dark long before we reached /Covington, Kentucky, where the bus crosses a toll bridge over the Ohio River to Cincinnati. On my trip into Kentucky, I had crossed the Ohio early in the morning. In spite of Miss Ramsdall's warnings, I had been greatly disappointed to find that the beautiful Ohio resembled nothing quite so much as a broad expanse of mud. 1 waxed slightly sentimental as we left Kentucky, but poor Anne, who hadn't been feeling especially well, didn’t appreciate it. In fact, .she became so violently car-sick that—well, we cleaned up at the Greyhound station.
From Cincinnati we took a King Brothers Bus for Dayton at midnight. The timetable had declared that the bus was equipped with radio. When the driver came to check our tickets, I said,
"Can you get Boston on your radio?" "Can't get much at this time of night," he replied, “but I'll see what I can do.”
"If you can’t get anything, do we get a refund on our tickets?”
“No, I’m afraid not."
“Scotch!” I said. Later I regretted my request however. 1 felt in the mood for something big and stirring like Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony or Marche Slave, and the radio kept us awake with a broadcast from Cab Calloway’s night club.
By the time we reached Dayton at one A. M. Sunday, both /Mine and I were rapidly approaching a state of sleepiness that could scarcely be denied. We washed our faces in cold water and combed our hair. We each stretched out on a hard wooden bench. At three we left for New York City.
Occasionally one of us dozed—but not for long. When we reached Columbus around 5 A. M. Sunday, both of us had been practically twenty-five hours without sleep.
Nor did we sleep that morning. In general, the bus stops every two hours, alternating a five minute rest stop and a fifteen minute lunch stop. We'd just about dozed off when the bus would stop—and of! we’d stumble.
The night before we left Caney, Anne and 1 had met a group of four college boys whom Anne had in class —a make-up course in Caesar. One of the boys was carrying a Snicker box. In carefully phrased sentences he expressed the gratitude the class felt for the help Anne had given them, and said they wished to present her with a token of their appreciation. Rufus, who was also in the class, and who was responsible for seven-eighths of the mischief on the campus, strode up and assured Anne that there was enough in the box for twenty-four hours. Anne took the box, which was suspiciously heavy, thanked the boys, and then went on down to Syracusan.
As soon as we were safe in the privacy of her room, Anne said, “I didn’t dare open it in front of them. I was afraid that it might be cornbread, from what Rufus said."
She opened the box.
“How swept of them,” she exclaimed. Inside were twelve chocolate Milky Ways and twelve Snickers!
Never was it truer that one man’s meat was another's poison. Anne was far too sick to eat candy, while I gave inward thanks that Caesar had lived as 1 ate Snickers to my heart’s content— and Anne’s loss. It was sweet of those boys I
Anne left the bus at Pittsburg. I hated to leave her, but she was sure she would be all right as soon as she rested.
After the bus left Pittsburg, a pleasant-faced old lady sat beside me. We talked for awhile. Since she was familiar with the country, she offered to show me some points of interest.
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The Brookside Quartet including originally Sands, Wells, Rush, and Waters, having arrived as a trio and a duet, is now reduced to a solo since the withdrawal of Rush; it should continue, however, for the girl is all in Sands.
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What do you think of the freshman, who, during the first week of school, had her picture taken in Framingham lor the boy friend back home.
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The Crocker Hall password: "We reka.”
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Hats off to Anne Jenkins and Evelyn Winship for their daring in driving a 1917 Dodge roadster and a Baby Austin respectively.
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Carnations to Catherine Brosnan and her attractively furnished Crocker room.
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Who are to be the original couple at the Mock Man Dance? Not too early to start thinking of costumes, you know.
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Does Jenny still go with Jigs? ----------------o----
Does “Sis" Sondermann like to make cookies?
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Did Ronnie and Helen have a grand time the 12th?
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Does “Sondie” like puns? ----------------□----
Don Cupid is on the wing again I Maybe daisies won’t tell, but diamonds will!
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Things that annoy Ye Ed. and several other honest people;
Bath tub rings.
Uncontrolled alarm clocks.
Loud talk in corridors at five A. M.
People who leave their lights on all day.
People who advertise their letters and phone calls.
People who are eternally fussing over the dormitory food.
People with extra exhubcrant enthusiasm over a school activity, date, or custard pie.
People who order their lives down to the third decimal point.
People with over developed bumps of curiosity.
Practice School Notes
The present enrollment of the Jonathan Maynard School is 371. This is the largest number ever recorded at the opening of school in the fall.
Miss Florence Cook, teacher of the first grade, who was unable to resume her duties in September because of illness, has undergone an operation at the N. E. Baptist Hospital in Boston, and is now convalescing at her home in Newton. She hopes to be back at school by November.
Mrs. Earl Sanderson, (Winifred Archibald ’16) formerly a member of the Jonathan Maynard teaching staff, has been substituting for Miss Cook.
The first two films to be seen at school this season were shown on September 26. They were “Guns" and “Bushels", and featured the raising of grains, not only in the United States but also in China. The pictures have an extremely high educational value and are greatly enjoyed by the pupils.
The orchestra of the Jonathan Maynard School met to organize on Wednesday, September f9.
Faculty News
The Home Economics Club tea given on Monday, October 1, in the C. C. C. Cottage was well attended by faculty and students. Miss Weeks and Ingrid Vincedt poured, and were assisted in serving by Helen Louise Howe, Barbara Knapp, Marjorie Studley and Rose Glynn.
The first weekend in October marked the beginning of a busy year for the Home Economics Club. The first intercollegiate conference of student home economics clubs was held at Framingham with the local club acting as hostess. Each affiliated home economics students clubs of Massachusetts was represented: Simmons College, Lasell Junior College, and Regis College each a delegation of six students; Essex County Agricultural School by three students and one faculty member; The Girls’ Grade School of Worcester one student and one faculty member; Massachusetts State College three students and one faculty member. Delegates registered in Horace Mann living room, which was artistically decorated with autumn leaves and flowers. After a special supper, served for the clubs in Peirce Hall dining room, everyone returned to Horace Mann Hall for a special program, of business and entertainment. Ingrid Vincent, president of the Framingham Club presided. President Bagnall extended a few words of greeting. Miss Skinner, president of the Massachusetts State Home Economics Associa-tiOh, Miss Coss, president of the New England Home Economics Association, and Dr. Blood of Simmons College each brought a message to the girls.
In the song contest which followed, first honors went to Regis College. Louise Sondermann '37 accompanied the singing which was led by Phyllis Sparhawk ’37.
Reports of the National Home Economics Association Convention held in New York last June were given by Cornelia Foley of Massachusetts State College, and Helen Louise Howe of Framingham.
A brief business meeting followed, at which Barbara Knapp ’37 of Framingham was elected representative of the students’ clubs of Massachusetts.
At the close of the meeting cider, doughnuts, and cheese were served, and a social hour followed.
Saturday morning, a waffle breakfast served in the commuters lunch room, the delegates left for the Hotel Westminster, Boston, to attend the 25th birthday party of the New England Home Economics Association.
The conference was full of inspiration for those who attended, and Framingham is proud of having been the leader in starting the intercollegiate home economics clubs conventions in Massachusetts.
October 23 is the date of the next meeting of the Club. An interesting program is being arranged.
Answers
1.	Hitler.
2.	Alexander Dumas.
3.	Franklin Pierce.
4.	“The south."
5.	Asia.
6.	Off coast of South Carolina.
7.	Maine, Massachusetts.
8.	Hudson River.
9.	London, England.
10.	Shrove Tuesday.
11.	Egypt, Burmah.
12.	Spire of Chicago Temple building.
Dr. Meier attended the N. E. A. in Washington, D. C., in the early summer, where he delivered an address on the Present Tendencies in Education In the Department of Science Instruction.
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All Household Arts faculty members and Miss Russell of the Chemistry department were present at the 25th anniversary of the New England Home Economics Association October 6.
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Miss Kingman, Miss Rochefort, Miss Gerritson, Miss Ramsdell, Miss Carter, Miss Hunt, and Miss Larned were among the faculty members who enjoyed Eugene O’Neil’s Ah, Wilderness presented at the Plymouth Theatre in Boston. The fact that the play and the players have furnished material for lively discussions during lunch hour indicate that opinions of O’Neil’s first comedy are not unanimous.
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Miss Rochefort enjoyed a restful vacation last summer camping in a real cabin high up in the White Mts. of N. H.
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October 6th marked the afternoon meeting of the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers to discuss plans for the coming year. Miss Russell is chairman of the central division of this organization.
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Miss Gerritson, Miss Ramsdell, and Miss Coss spent part of Columbus Day weekend in picturesque Pencoast Manor at Pigeon Cove.
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Miss Hall of the practice school and Mr. Archibald were among those who attended the Worcester Music Festival early this month. According to Mr. Archibald the festival was worthy of the splendid new auditorium in which it was held.
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Miss Taylor was among the guests at a recent tea given by the noted dancer, Pauline Chellis, to meet Mr. Charles Weidman and Miss Doris Humphrey who frequently appear together in programs of the modern dance. Others present were Miss Leticia Ide and Jose Limon from the theatorical production As Thousands Cheer.
Laws Laid Down To Freshmen
Freshmen were read the riot act by seniors with all the significance and stability of the source from whence it came. Some took it to heart, as they should, while others racked their brains for ways of evading the issue. (Elsewhere you will find recorded their fate.)
The orders were as follows:
For one week
1.	Use side doors of buildings.
2.	Do any errands seniors request.
3.	Awaken senior sisters at 6.30 A. M.
4.	Use driveways instead of sidewalks.
5.	Take and return senior’s laundry.
6.	Refrain from smoking for a week.
7.	Wear napkins, tied around neck, in dining room.
8.	turtsy to seniors.
9.	Keep fresh flowers in senior’s rooms, and take care of them. Don't pick any on campus.
For one month
10.	Salute sundial.
11.	Sweep rugs on Fridays before . chapel.
12.	\'Vear green ribbons tied around head.
13.	Use no lipstick.
A time of recognition always comes to those who start humbly and with an admission of lower status. In four years freshmen will have a background for deep understanding and sure judgment. Then it will be their turn to hand down the decrees.
YWCA
“BUYING MEMORIES’’
“Life has loveliness to sell,” You’ve heard that o’er and o’er; But now’ our club will show to you Its truth, not known before.
We're taking trips to Boston town To see the grandest sights I Cathedrals there of great renown And, later, during nights, We’ll see the opera if you wish. In fact, it’s just for you So let us know what you’d enjoy, And that is what we’ll do.
At the conference held here at Framingham on September 22 and 23, at which Ann Silver and Tirza Ann Dinsdale from the Metropolitan headquarters were our guests, plans for the coming year were discussed. It is hoped that this year the Y. W. is going to mean more to many girls than ever before.
The Current Events group, Philosophy of Living group, and the Poetry and Book groups are to continue, as last year. In addition two new groups are being planned; a Vocational and a Personality group. The aim of the Vocational group will be to give the girls a better understanding of the many vocations open to a college graduate, and the qualifications necessary for each. The Personality group will consist of a few talks on the importance of personality in the world today.
As so few students take advantage of the wonderful cultural opportunities there are in Boston, trips are being planned to acquaint us with some of them.
The annual bazaar, a big event and a big surprise, will be held on December 6.
WE NEED YOU I Help us to make this year one of the best the Y.W.C.A. has ever had!
THE HOME ROAD
(Continued from payc 3)
By then, however, I must have borne a startling resemblance to the Dormouse in Alice in Wonderland, for I kept dropping off to sleep in the middle of words, only to wake and find I had missed something.
left—about nine that night, I curled up
After the other occupant of my scat in a most undignified position, and went sound asleep. I awoke for a few minutes in Harrisburg, and then slept until we were entering the Holland Tunnel.
My first view of New York City—at 5 A. M.—was far from thrilling. An hour later, on the bus for Boston, I was still too sleepy to appreciate the size of Central Park—or anything else. I slept most of the way to Boston, and arrived home about 6.30 P. M. Monday. I felt no bad effects from the trip.
It took me two days and a half to come back from Kentucky. A few days after my return, I went into Boston to see A Girl of the Limberlost. One of the vaudeville acts was listed as the Three Hill-Billies. Though I disliked most of their act, their first number, She’ll He Cominy 'Round the Mountain, carried me instantly back to that narrow valley where 1 had heard that tune so many times. Would that my body could be transported as easily as is my mind over those long sleepy miles that stretch between Waltham and the valley of Caney 1
—Lucia Back, '35.
MARIE’S BEAUTY SHOPPE
FRAMINGHAM CENTER Specializing in
Permanent and Finger Waving
1909 -1934
A very significant event in home economics history has just taken place, namely the celebration of the 25th anniversary’of the New England Home Economics Association, which was organized in Boston Otcobcr 9, 1909, the second home economics association formed in this country.
On Saturday, October sixth, about two hundred home economists gathered at Hotel Westminster for a general meeting at eleven and luncheon at one. The place itself was significant, for the infant organization, in December following its formation, was hostess to its parent, the American Home Economic Association, and the Hotel Westminster was headquarters for that occasion.
The president, Miss Millicent Coss, presided. Miss Katherine Baker gave a brief report of the annual meeting of the American Home Economics Association in New York last June. Mr. Frederic W. Howe, director of the School of Household Science and Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, spoke on Home Economics, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Mr. Howe came to Framingham with the Mary Hemen-w’ay Department of Household Arts in 1898 and remained here as head of the chemistry department until June 1921.
Miss Helen Atwater, editor of the Journal of Home Economics represented the American Home Economics Association. She was present at the first meeting at the Hotel Westminster in December 1909. She gave an excellent resume of the developments in Home Economics in the past twenty-five years.
At luncheon Miss Agnes Craig representing the Massachusetts Home Economics Association acted as toastmistress. Miss S. Maria Elliott responded to a toast, “As it was in the Beginning.” As Miss Elliott was present for the beginning and has maintained an active interest ever since, she gave a very personal touch to her remarks. Miss Antoinette Roof, the sixth president of the Association responded to a toast “To Our Presidents.” Miss Roof, who is a graduate of Framingham school, spoke in her usual happy fashion. Then the student club group who, with their advisors, had a special table, were represented by Miss Frances Griswold, president of the Simmons College Club, in response to a toast, “To Our Students.”
The President closed the meeting with the lines,
“And so do roads, and days, and years
Come to an end,
But new roads open up, and new days Lend their length to make new years.”
The assembled guests rose to a toast to the next twenty-five years, and remained standing for the singing of Auld Lany Syne led by Miss Marie McPherson, Framingham 1921.
Some of the older guests present were:
Mrs. Mary Schenck Woolman, teacher, writer, lecturer on textiles, founder of Manhattan Trade School for Girls.
Miss Emeline Torrey, one of the four students who entered the first class in the Boston Normal School of Household Arts from which our own department sprang.
Miss Lillie Smith, a charter member. Miss Smith was one of the early graduates of this school before its Framingham days and is now director of Household Arts in Brookline.
Guests from the other New England states included, Miss Margaret Whittemore, director of Household Arts at Rhode Island State College; Miss Mildred French, Dean of Home Economics and Dean of Women at Connecticut State College; Mesdames Helen Leighton and McLaughlin from the University of New Hampshire.
Eleven of the thirteen presidents of the association were present.
Ay. Garvey: Could I serve you to egg plant?
Ruth Thompson: No, thank you. Anything I eat with egg in it doesn’t agree with me.
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Fresh Freshman: (To a senior) When do you regain your dignity around here?
Senior: The second week of your senior year when you meet “Fresh Freshman".
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Have you heard about the very honest freshman who signs out with a question mark when she is in doubt of the hour she will return?
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Freshman: (Meeting Miss Taylor) Am I relieved 1 I thought you were a senior, and now I won’t have to curtsy.
Miss Taylor: Don’t mind me, I’m only a member of the faculty.
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Miss Gardner giving directions as to how to run the autoclave: “When the temperature gets up to 100° centigrade, light the gas.”
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Freshman signing up for the weekend at Peirce Hall: “I don't know how many weekends I’m going to be here, so how can I sign up?”
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And then there is the Voc. senior who, upon learning that prune salad was going to be on the menu, asked if the prunes were in the oven.
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Those of us who went will always remember:—
That the ground doesn’t “give” much.
The delicious aroma of burning shoe leather.
How Rose Glynn looked when she got up in the morning.
The unappeasable appetites everybody seemed to have.
The trouble Dot Perkins had in finding her hat before she could finally get to sleep.
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Geneva Carpenter to Eleanor Rhode: “Eleanor, have you an athletic whistle?”
C. C. C. Activity Schedule 1934-1935
Sept. 21 Field Day
" 21 Y.W.C.A. Weekend
“ 28 Overnight Hike
Oct. 4 Faculty Reception to Freshmen
“ • 5 Home Economics Conference
“ 26 Student Co-operative Ass’n Informal Dance
Nov. 16 Parents’ Day—Open House
“ 23 Mock Man Dance
“ 24 Harvard-Yale Game
Dec. 6 Y. W. C. A. Bazaar
“ 19 Christmas Dinner
" 19 Candle Light Service
" 20 Christmas Carols
Jan. 4 Fine Arts Costume Party
Feb. 1 Publication Dance
“	8	Home Economics Night
Mar. 8 Joint Musical Club Concert with men's club
“ 22 Fine Arts Play
April 12 Commuters Activity
May 3 C. C. C. Formal Dance
“ 10 C. C. C. Dinner and Theatre Party
“ ,17 May Day
“ 24 Junior Prom
June 4 Pops
“	7	Senior Prom
“ 12 Class Day
“ 13 Commencement