. St. Nicholas [serial] . ime,it is not strange that the traditional class eventscome of{ in the open, and that the girls, layingaside their grown-up dignity, enter withgreat zest into the sports of their younger it is that grave and reverend seniors incap and gown enter the campus some warmevening with jumping ropes and perform end-less evolutions, each year some original stuntbeing planned to amuse the onlooking under-classmen. Round and round they circle, inand out, sometimes skipping their ropes as theygo, and at others stretching them across theway for their classmates to pass ben
. St. Nicholas [serial] . ime,it is not strange that the traditional class eventscome of{ in the open, and that the girls, layingaside their grown-up dignity, enter withgreat zest into the sports of their younger it is that grave and reverend seniors incap and gown enter the campus some warmevening with jumping ropes and perform end-less evolutions, each year some original stuntbeing planned to amuse the onlooking under-classmen. Round and round they circle, inand out, sometimes skipping their ropes as theygo, and at others stretching them across theway for their classmates to pass beneath; orthere are impromptu jumping contests beforeSkinner steps. Imagine the scene when once,through a mistake, ropes for girls three-feet-two were shipped by a firm for seniors five-feet-nine ! The white ropes with their neatgreen handles, writes the chronicler, werefound more useful as cords hung about theneck under a collar, than as serving the pur-pose for which they were made. 585 586 MAY-TIME AT MOUNT HOLYOKE [May,. Another night come the ju-niors for the top-spinning,sometimes in gay costume, atothers all in white, as suitstheir particular fancy. A re-cent class introduced a nov-elty in the shape of an ani-mated red - and - blue top,which emerged from a hugepacking-box at the head ofSkinner steps and spun itsway down the steps, followedby a string of white-clad girls,at the end of which came theclass president carrying ahuge red-and-blue parasol tosimulate the button. The topwound itself up within itsstring and then unwoundagain, leading the way toSkinner steps, where originalsongs were sung. Upper-class dignity is verymuch piqued when under-classsophomores or freshmen dareto encroach upon their pre-rogatives by pulling offsimilar stunts. Class afterclass have endeavored to rollhoops or play marbles, onlyto have them stealthily pur-loined by watchful seniors JIARY LYON CHAPEL ANU HALL. STUDENT ALIIMNAE HALL (LOWER PICTURE) Tg20.] MAY-TIME AT MOUNT
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