May Day at Tennessee College for Women
Wordna Bragg, Junior Representative second from right
photo from The Dryad 1941.
Wordna Bragg Black shares a memory from her student years at Tennessee
College for Women.
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May Day at Tennessee College for Women |
| "We had to water the oak tree. I'm sure you haven't, it
was just a tradition, with a thimble, the freshmen did, and on the way you
had to say, or they made her say, and I can hear her now. The mouse,
and she was
from Charlottesville so she had that same pronunciation. 'The mouse
ran out the house to pout about the water spout,' and she had to walk way
down with this little thimble of water, water the oak tree, come back,
fill it up, and I don't know how many times we had to do it."
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