Counterpoint Editorial

This editorial by William Wister Comfort describes exactly what the yearbook art on the previous page depicts: a Haverford student waiting in a reception parlor while Bryn Mawr students not-so-subtly walk by and watch him. Comfort says that such visits, for Haverford men, were "a somewhat fearsome experience", one that "could only be the result of real devotion". Calling on a Bryn Mawr woman was apparently "something like a call at the grating of a convent".

Yet, despite the difficult of visiting Bryn Mawr, according to Comfort some Haverford students found it worthwhile enough to even sneak onto campus and serenade a Bryn Mawr girl at her window, or to accompany a Mawrter to a reception in Taylor even if "everything was open and above-board and conducted under the eyes of a feminine world".