Athletics and Socializing

Class yearbooks from the 1940s show us how active Bryn Mawr students were in extra-curricular activities. Athletics feature heavily, and this page shows that a horse riding club existed.

In the very early 1900s the college would flood the athletic fields in the winter to make ice so students would skate. These skaters apparently needed to travel away from campus to find suitable ice. Another marked difference of skaters in this decade: their clothing. Previous decades' students wore skirts down to their ankles even when skating.

This page from the 1940 class yearbook shows a photo of a school dance in the gym. The picture gives us an idea of the formal clothing of the time and shows women and men interacting. The captain tells us that these dances took place twice a year in the gym (and occasionally additional dances in other locations on campus), and that any Bryn Mawr student who did not "import a man" to be her date could find a dance partner in the "always active stag line".