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

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of poUtklan s who speak their minds and are heard from platforms, bandwagons, lemonade stands .... who flaunt their banners in a quadrangle- breeze . . . whose campaigns court the undergraduate ' s love of spec- tacle and pomp and rise to a thrill- ing climax of festivity on election day — which comes, not in Novem- ber but in April .... at the polls gather undergraduates to express a democratic ])rivilege made doubly important in this year of years by the death throes of a dozen free- speaking peoples .... and dates who keep the nights from growing monotonous with books and make hangovers less obnoxious .... run through your wallet like a rat through a knothole .... who smear fine lipstick all over an ex- pensive face and demolish coiffures — yet who, when you think it all over, fill your life full of moments- to-remeniber .... [3]

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ot our 1 1 kJ ' 3 ' y xj • • • and laboratories where- in flow queues of hu- man raw material .... from which come con- cepts to color the stream of national and ]iersonal destinies for genera- tions ahead . . . here ather the thoughtful, the indifferent, the t h o u g h 1 1 e s s — the thoughtful for inspira- tion and guidance, the sleepy to be a w a k - ened .... around library tables, hunching- shoulders on shiny counters .... over their cokes and in their private corners mingle children of va- ried estate .... wage their wars, personal and mundane .... stop to chatter at abstractions above their heads and grope for a philosophy which is here .... and in the Bookstore one finds always a pot- pourri .... .of bull sessions

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of prof. s at their books and in their stndies .... of a nnique toughness and dural)ility .... profs digging in the ruins of past learning and, with a fHck of an eyebrow, injecting ideas into minds in gestation — minds which tomorrow will birth the next generation of American thought and action .... here is a l)Otpourri of mentalities in assorted shades, sizes, personalities, bound together in the common purpose of establishing the future today .... they also have to attend lec- tures .... and tea s where Sunday quietude and tete-a-tetes furnish relief from printed the- ories .... bigwigs and little pass the time of day, and women prove their points against the back- ground of grace and charm that leaves Stock- ham such a restful place to be on a Sabbath after- noon .... nothing is hur- ried, and you are sur- prised that here life does go on without frantically stumbling all over it- self .... [4]