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LiIn 1927, under the imposing title ‘dignified seniors,’ they took their places as shining examples to the rest of the school. A careful study of their serious faces in the pictures tells a great deal about them. Gone was their characteristic noisiness and carefree attitude toward life, and the
excited anticipation of ‘being Seniors’ ; they wore the grave mien of responsibility and ‘grown-upness,’ and a fairly well concealed but very genuine regret at leaving Hartridge with its work and its play and its
happy associations which had been taken for granted for four years.”
I think that if we could find the 1927 \'olume of T empora et
M o r e s we should learn more of this final year at school. It is evidently made up of teas and parties and games and of course a great deal of study as preparation against final exams, and many school offices were held by members of the class. Well, this is a very rough draft, hut I think we have some rather valuable data on twentieth century life and education, don’t you ?
Arch.: You certainly have. Professor! And it seems to me that. although we hear a lot about present-day luxury and comfort, those primi­
tives had rather a jolly time of it— the Hartridge girls, anyway.
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