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Bryn Mawr College Yearbook. Class of 1906
Bryn Mawr College (author)
1906
serial
Annual
176 pages
reformatted digital
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
9PY 1906
Book of the class of 1906 : Bryn Mawr College.--
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BMC-Yearbooks-1906
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Lantern Night
Lantern Night really began early in the afternoon, when we, as impatient Freshmen,
took the first opportunity of hastening to Denbigh, and securing our beautiful new caps and
gowns, possessions which we had coveted for one whole weary month. ‘Trustful and easy
in mind, because of the official decree that hazing of any sort would not be tolerated by the
authorities, we did not even trouble to hide our new splendor away, but sat and gazed at
it all afternoon in rapt expectation.
At eight in the evening we put it on for the very first time, and formed a semi-circle
; in front of Denbigh, waiting for the Sophomores to come to us. There are few occasions
hy in the College year more beautiful and more interesting than this same Lantern Night.
i Long before we saw 1905, we heard them in the distance, singing the Greek hymn to which
not one of us will ever grow tired of listening.
Then we caught glints of blue through the bushes, the blue of 1906, and we realized
that this was the blue of our lanterns. It took sometime before 1905 reached us: Pallas
Athena admits of only the slowest and stateliest of marches. Finally they came and gave
us our lanterns, which it was to be our duty to keep lighted all through the long evening,
and to keep lighted in spirit throughout the four years of our College life, and, indeed,
ever afterwards. We all felt very strange as we took our lanterns, in the midst of the
quiet of the night, and then broke the silence with our own Lantern Song,
“We'll follow thee, if near or far,
So hail, thou lantern of Bryn Mawr.”
Then, as was fitting, we marched two by two through the halls, conseerating ourselves, as
it were, to their service, the halls which had been standing long before we came to Bryn
Mawr, and will stand long after we leave it, but which for four years belong to us and form
a part of our life.
Finally, under Pembroke Arch, we cheered for other classes that had carried their
lanterns on such nights as this, and listened to other lantern songs, all animated with the
same spirit as our own.
The next morning we wore our caps and gowns to Chapel and sang our College
Hymn, and then, at last, we became a real part of the College, as much a part of Bryn
Mawr as the Seniors and Juniors and Sophomores before us.
HELEN Moss LOWENGRUND.
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