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deciding to wear little green Robinhood caps, with peacock feathers, we left the matter
of reunions and passed to the question of the Class Baby.
Hitherto, the question of this individual had not been a burning one in any of our
minds. Now, however, we were informed that limitations must be imposed upon the
infant. Like that of its ““Alma Grand-Mater,” the standard for the Class Baby must
be kept high. With a few suggestions from the chair, we decided that it should be the
“first girl-baby of an Alumna.” But our indefatigable president pushed the matter farther.
She forced us to consider its education. Then Higgie rose magnificently. She moved that
if the parents were unable, the class should educate “the child.”” There was a second.
In vain did I protest shyly from my corner that we were assuming a tremendous expense.
I was silenced by the words “public school’? and the motion went through. Time will
show whether we were right or wrong.
Then we divided the nice peacock cups. And last of all we elected permanent officers,
Amy and Dottie. It gave us a certain sense of stability to do this. We knew that even if
we were Alumnze, we were no less 1911 than we had been before. So we cheered our officers
lustily, and then we cheered ourselves. Under the gymnasium windows, the last of our
Freshmen, faithful to the end, were cheering us. And so we filed out through the doors
that we had so often passed through before, rushing toward Lab., with note-book-laden
arms. Half instinctively, I turned toward the bulletin-board, intending to register exercise;
and found it bare! Slowly we were all of us beginning to realise that it was indeed the
end. But we laughed, and tried not to show how dreary we felt. And as we walked home
across the campus, now deserted by all save ourselves, we knew that we were not going
to lose it. 1911 would be 1911 to its twenty-fifth—yes, until its fiftieth, reunion; and
no other class that had come or would come to college could ever be quite like it.
CATHERINE LyMAN DELANO.
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