Donnybrook Fair 1942 - Goucher College

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Life begins for the Ashtons' apartment .. . for dorm roof ... for dining hall .. . and the walls
begin to look finished.
flakes are pelted by Jupiter and his playful underlings. The streets soon
lie beneath twenty-two inches of snow and along the sides are drifts piled
up at least eight feet high. Familiar landmarks are obliterated, the whole
city camouflaged. It is as if a Gothic architect had redecorated Baltimore.
The trees are bent double beneath the weight-the pines are humble
now, their foreheads on the ground. Less supple trees snap beneath the
strain, and heavy branches topple. The roads become impassible. so that
the only way to invade the campus is on skis. For one weekend Towson
wears the aspect of a winter resort or of some far-off northern country.
Second term. As the rickety elevator hauls supplies three floors up to
the laborers at Towson, the students in the city travel a fixed orbit from
classes to Bookstore to library. The orbit is a larger one than usual this
year because to the regular college courses have been added many
especially concerned with the defense effort.
First term always seems predominately academic and second term
more interspersed with social activities. It is second term that conjures
up thoughts of Sing-Song, and Senior Play, Pan Hell and vVinter Cotillion.
This year, in addition, one hundred and fifty students act as hostesses
at a service dance given for the twenty-ninth division of Fort Meade.
Reflections of the war are caught in more than familiar talk of uniforms,
0. T., and triangular bandanges. Aiming at improved health