Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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Barrett: grey simlicity in the moon- light . . . the march to Chapel at 8:53 . . . monks off to morning mass . . . you only get two letters after the last one . . . Memorial Hill under a rare cover of snow and Steve Rostas' struggling ski class . . . the Bio build- ing, where both Sophomores and fruit-flies undergo the evolutionary process . . . who burns more oil, the bio or chem majors? . . . did you check the weather station this noon? . . . Prof. Kidder and cancer . . . ever see the greenhouse right up the hill from Kirby? . . . home of as unlikely individuals as Hedda Gabler and Faustus . . . Sunday night foreign flicks . . . TutTy's hard-working crew, and cast parties . . . Prof. Pettet and .lack Sommers discussing the fine points . . . ubiquitous Pete Strauss . . . ' .AQ-. xt.: -' .. ,kr ' ' ' ,..Lf j,E,f 1, f fi , V,'f ns 1 - I . 1 I 'fl 'renin ,l L ,L-1 - , Av , .-ff ,ff ' . ,D-. J I, 7, V Iwi. '- N ,gif -4'.Y'1 ,- X ., ,r fl,-. - M - ,,.'. ffj.: 1 . we - .,, ,fyfq l ' - s..,--i- ,

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-31 D -100-1 A S' . .3 -f A A. smokeless face in the Registrar's ottice . . . James and Stearns cmd the Quad . . . the Frosh-Soph rivalry and battles between the dorms at night . . . the Pelham Hills and Stearns Tower in a late fall sunset . . . throwing snowballs at some poor sucker's open window . . . Iinoleum corridor-floors under two inches of water . . . the gradual ac- quisition of the knowledge that the campus cop is not a banana . . . the chimes shaking sack-hounds out of a sound sleep late Sunday morning . . . as Freshmen we sat on the walls be- tween the dorms, between dates . . . as Seniors we passed through these walls to the site of the Senior sing . . . softball games 'til it's too dark to see . . . beer, blankets, and books on lazy Spring afternoons. Our College Chapel as now used is any- thing but a sacred place. Declamations, ex- hibitions, with clappings and hurrahs, and all the dirt and vulgarity which results from coarse and constant usage makes it seem more like a town house than a meeting house. Pres. William Stearns I know that the impression prevails widely that it is far safer to the morals of students to have them congregate in large dormitory buildings than to be scattered through the community. I must say that my own obser- ration for many years does not sustain such an opinion, but rather the reversef, Pres. Edward Hitchcock

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+ W-- Sabrina, a monument now gone, somewhere . . . nobody seems to know where, or care very much . . . we still have pep rallies . . . Amherst be- 1. g ,-wa, - -. A ' 15,12 ,, 'lu 2 Q - . l t 1 1, SS! N.. in 1 -QP M' M4 if ...pffi ig l'Lr9f1f'?,ll ' 'ftgilf- , .7 . i Ti r' , f f? -. Y 'gen ll' V . t. iii V 4 ,, fi A ' , . -' 1 C if-1 yr C' ff-fw qf , gjy ' fi. t if ll Tis ff if 5 C 'eff f A ll ,. ' W , ,.5:,f,.l 7'A,' . ' w, , t 5,541 gkgx g f , my - f Ja ,I - w- - g cpl 1,3-...iz-ff wi gins and ends with teas-from the nervous freshmen and the reserved faculty to the worldly seniors and their proud parents . . . ten years of an esteemed regime . . . Our speaker this morning is . . . . . . never so crowded as for Robert Frost in the Chapel at 8 pm . . . Sphinx will meet in Chapel lO . . . Scarab will meet in the usual place at the usual time . . . student responsibility: do we have enough? . . . refer to the ACAA, Stu- dent Council, HMC, and, by all means, the STUDENT. ,X ' 11