The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30
The Freshman writes Home.

L
Cleo Darlingest-
Fuss away-and then please forgive
me. My dear, 1 know should nave
written to you ages ago-but l SIMPLY
couldn't settle down to 1t. however
I'm going to concentrate on you now,
so listen!
Monday night was Pledge Night.
| The various sororities went about
| collecting their various pledges-and
mighty scared pledges they We're 700:
You see the sorority bids were sent
out Monday morning and the answers
had to be in by six o'clock. AS soon
| as the girls received our answers they
| came after US and we piled IN cars
and drove all over Topeka at a very
| lively gaiti-I sent in my acceptance
and about four o'clock there came a
knocking at my chamber door-and
| about eight breathless girls rushed IN
and fell on my neck. They covered
me with kisses and squeezed me I'LL
I was left gasping ana crippled. me-
we flew down the stairs and expeeded
the coed limit for awhile. The girls
then brought US home and told US TO
| put on our best white dress-and they
| would return for US again at i've
thirty. They came. And Oh! what
tales they told us! First that the Phi
lDelt chapter would come in and kiss
all the pledges, next that they were
going to tattoo the sorority insignia on
our backsi But when the time came
was observation-disclosures sacred. And IT
left us with tears in our eyes-and
high resolves in our hearts. After 1t
was over we ate salad and sandwiches
and chatted and made merry. At eight
O'Clock the doors of the sorority houses
were thrown open-and they all held
"Open House" The fraternities came
one by one-and we received them,
fed them, talked to them, danced
| with them and sent them on their way
: rejoicing. Then our respective dates
tappeared on the scene and we Travelled
. home got in at eleven-thirty-
! which was only a half an hour late.
The other night the dormitory rules
were read to us at a house meeting.
2 And We came out sadder girls (Mayp
tho-since college is supposed to make
= us wiser it is essential that we be at
/ times sadder.) Anyway it is-be in at
e 1880 every night except Friday and
Saturday which have as a limit IL
O'Clock. and Sunday we must be IN
at 10. No car rides without chaperons
always have your bed made pc
fore luncheon -. be five minutes
late to breakfast and you'll find the
S door locked and yourself breakfastless
i don't take a bath before six in
e the morning or after ten at night
don't let out whoop or loud
i laugh during quiet hour-and DO BE
S GOOD! If any rules are broken black
: marks are given fifteen black
y marks and you are campused for a
week! Tm planning on fourteen
backwards ana no more!)
1 have some of the most interest
J. ing teachers. Madame Montilu who
e teaches French is fascinatingly for
: eign She speaks English with de-
: licious accent, shrugs her shoulders
# A la Paree+and says the quaintes
s things. Young Professor Davis is {
# brilliant-ish sort of person, He ha'
e the most startlingly individual per
II sonality-always he says the unex
o pected-his capacity for biting sar
l. casm is immense-but he has tn
II most magnificent sense of humor
Is ever behed. In his English classe
we are learning!
Little Miss Saylor, the new gym
teacher. is a clever. interesting per
son. She objects strenuously to tn
way we freshmen girls walk. We haV
L her instructions to walk .pigeon-toe'
- rather than toe out like Charlie Chap
lin Mr.. Schoenberger, the dramati
! instructor, is splendid! To hear hin
read a play. is to see i'll 1 like hi
I classes best of all. However, the en-
tire faculty is fine. They take sucl
personal interest, and feeling o
real friendship exists between the stu
dents and teachers.
1 This crisp autumn weather give
everyone a gypsy-:sh feeling tn
90 other evening a few of US hiked GU
about a half mile, and on the bank
L of the Shunganunga built littl
I campfire. We had a steak roast tina
was more marvellous than any o
100 roast of the sncients could ever hav
been. 1t was so exhilarating out
the open with the smoke curtin
lazily upward-and Obi the smell {
100 that juicy, roasting steak!
The Washburn girls are the dear
1 est in the world. Never before hav
I met such real, foursquare girls. Tn
1 Washburn boys are the best ever. to-
We have a jingly little song whic
runs something like this:
Sing:
100 my mans a Washburnite,
- He wears the blue and white,
'o' He is so gay and bright,
$50 He is all right,
And in my future life
I'm going to be his wife.
1 YeH:
How the heck did you find that out
Sing:
He told me sol
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