Birmingham Southern College - Southern Accent Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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c. IHARLIE has been orientated and now knows that there is a school constitution, that there is an honor system, that he is on the road to becoming a cukured Christian gentle- man, and that the weight of the world will fall upon his broad, sun- tanned shoulders as soon as he graduates. But that is a long way off. Charlie wants to make the Barnstones proud of him, so he buys the nec- essary books and looks through them — but there is a disturbing element on the campus. Charlie is becoming aware of the fact that there are girls galore as ' Southern. And what girls! They look so sporty and pretty that poor Charlie can ' t keep his mind on anything — except them. He watches them as they cross the campus; he watches them while he is in his classrooms; he watches them. At the bookstore Charlie learns the technique of sitting around, waiting for mail, eating ice-cream sand- wiches, and rushing into the cafeteria for meals. The campus attracts Charlie. It ' s lovely, but wasted. There an ' t even a ten foot hunk of it planted in corn!