. Mortarboard. l and toomit all which are futile and irrelevant, merely mentioning afew things of passing interest—in brackets, of course. When we first entered Barnard—101 strong—we wereeasily distinguish-able from the other classes in two ways—we needed little urging to subscribe to the College periodicals,and we could be seen vainly trying to evolve order out of thechaos of the catalogue. [Later on we learned to let the officedo the evolving.] Like all Freshmen we had come to college tostudy, and for a time our conversation was confined to discussionsabout the Capture of Quebec, the Odes of
. Mortarboard. l and toomit all which are futile and irrelevant, merely mentioning afew things of passing interest—in brackets, of course. When we first entered Barnard—101 strong—we wereeasily distinguish-able from the other classes in two ways—we needed little urging to subscribe to the College periodicals,and we could be seen vainly trying to evolve order out of thechaos of the catalogue. [Later on we learned to let the officedo the evolving.] Like all Freshmen we had come to college tostudy, and for a time our conversation was confined to discussionsabout the Capture of Quebec, the Odes of Horace, Infinity, after the excitement of choosing our class colors, our mottoand our yell, and especially after the important class elections,we began to turn our attention to other things. We elected asFreshman president, Gertrude Hunter; vice-president, Mabel Palliser; corresponding secretary, Ray West; recording secretary, Grace Reeder; treasurer, Mary Bailey;and historian, Mabel Elder. 127. With these capable leaderstainments to Freshmen. Firstwe spent a busy, profitable and pleasant afternoon.
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