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Title: Mary Baldwin Seminary Bluestocking 1909
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Mary Baldwin College
Subjects: Mary Baldwin College MBC Mary Baldwin Seminary Augusta Female Seminary Yearbooks Bluestocking Baldwin's Staunton, Virginia women's colleges
Publisher: Mary Baldwin College
Contributing Library: Mary Baldwin College, Martha S. Grafton Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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arch the thirteenth. Therewere seven booths representing the different nations, very artisticallj^and originally decorated, the gymnasium becoming thereby a verypretty room rather than the cold, dismal gym we dance in everynight. The different costumes added much, and The Street Fairproved very satisfactory as well as amusing. Mr. Samuel Moore, of West Virginia, led a series of meetings in thePresbyterian Church, a few weeks ago. His earnestness and powerof appealing, brought every girl under his charm, and all listenedwith unwavering interest. All feeling of the burden of attendancewas at once forgotten after Mr. Moores first sermon, and it was withregret that we knew the meetings were ended. I do not think anyman has before so impressed the girls as Mr. Moore did, nor foundsuch a response in their hearts. We can at last say Winter has left us and once again come thosebright, happy, wholesome days of Spring. IV.—The End Spring with all its pleasures, sports and sunshine has come at
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last, and just March, April, May, and this happy school year willhave its end. My, how we want to leave this place, and every lessonis a grudge, but, stop to think just how many tally-ho rides, feasts,(and midnight feasts), how many germans and banquets we have hadduring this session. Then, say we dont have a good time atM. B. S. Besides these pleasures, think of the lessons we havelearned, the temptations we have overcome, and notice how thesehours at the Seminary have helped to mold our characters and pre-pare us for the far more serious life than happy, free, school daysoffer. It is true we have but Christmas vacation and one or twoholidays thrown in here and there: also, that we are most emphati-cally impressed with the fact that the Mary Baldwin Seminary is nota society school. Yet, I can say, and have heard others say, thatsociety does not make a school, for teas, dances, receptions, and last,but not least, men are not essential to a school girls happiness. As this eventful j^ea

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