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Show GIRL'S RIDING CLASSES (O I UDENTS studying in the Reserve Library or lounging east of the Park building on a ^ Monday afternoon could glance up and see, in the fields behind the campus, a colorful cavalcade of young horsewomen. From the campus they appeared merely as a moving picture against the eastern mountains, but a close-up would reveal the adventure and daring which the girls enrolled in the riding classes experienced. Warm, golden, lazy Mondays in early Autumn, October Mondays with hills distraught with color, weary Mondays in late November when the grey air was icy and the wind whistled through cold, bare trees; and in the Spring when each new day was a miracle of greenness and bursting buds, the girls, clad in riding togs, learned the fine arts of horse-back riding. The girls' riding classes are conducted by the Military department in connection with the Physical Education office. Registration is done through the Physical Education department, and gymnasium credit is received. The class is held on Monday afternoons between two and four, of the Autumn and Winter quarters. There are a Beginner's and an Intermediate class, but as yet there have been too few girls who have had sufficient experience to be enrolled in advanced classes. Major Gillespie hopes that next fall he will have the material with which to organize an advanced group. The beginners are given special horses and are taught the rudiments of riding. The intermediate classes are given more wild hones and more progressive work. The department is able to handle about forty-five girls each quarter, twelve in the intermediate group and twenty-five in the beginning class. Those registering first are enrolled in the classes, as there are too few horses to accomodate all the girls wishing to enroll. On High School Day, the girl's riding classes entered the Gymkana-a field meet on horses. There were four events for girls-the musical chairs, a thread-the-needle race, a girl's polo contest, and a Grettanie Green Race. The latter was interesting because of its legendary significance. Grettanie Green was the traditional place of elopements. The race, named after this romantic place, is run in pairs, the actions of proposing, eloping, and returning together, being characterized by the two riders in the race. About twenty girls who had had enough training and experience to be competent performed in events of the Gymkana. First, second, and third prizes were |
