Daily Strength For Daily Needs
Ale class of 1922 was founded by M. Millicent Carey, and it has been only
through her constant care in meeting deficits in our endowment that the
organization has survived. If there was ever a class that needed daily
strength, it was the embryonic dark blue class who started their college career
“revelling in humility’! In our first class meeting, Milly told us that the most
terrible thing that could happen to us would be to have the odds vote us fresh.
She told us that 1920 had been thus stigmatized, and we were led to believe that
they had practically never recovered from the effects. With this hideous example
of the sins of our fathers ever before us, we quelled our instantaneous instinct to
lick the Red and virtually licked their boots in our tremendous reaction. No
Freshman class has ever made fewer breaks than we. Before every function
Margie would get a list from Milly of the breaks that were possible, and during
each ceremony warnings would be hissed through the crowd as to what we were
not to do. We never did anything wrong. The trouble was—we never did any-
thing at all! Milly had said that the whole college would be watching us for the
first few weeks, and if there was one thing we feared more than being voted fresh, it
was the unwelcome attention of this strange and incomprehensible body. If they
were watching for breaks, they watched in vain. Milly’s lists were irreproachable
Milly was not only our social guide but she was also our athletic inspiration.
She instructed us in the holiness of hockey and in our eagerness to excell in order
to justify our existence, we held many tense meetings. At these we were told that
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