clown costume
Physical Education classes for women in the 1920s culminated in an elaborate May Day pagent. The first May festival was presented by the women students in the spring of 1919 and included a pageant during which the May Queen was crowned. It was an annual event until 1939.
Clown dance
Laura Jacques '22 and Eleanor Sawtelle '22, ca.1920
May Day Clown Costume
Gift of Laura G. Jacques, M.D., Class of 1922

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