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

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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]

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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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defense comes to the Hill .... great skeins of yarn become sweat- ers and socks when chronic knitters give their time to Brit- ish War Relief .... campus courses gain a point ; for young- men now also have something definite to do ... . The Na- tional Guard called campus men at midterm .... but the shadow of conflict conceals it- self behind laughing campus faces who must consider other things — like notices from the Dean .... and fee s to plague the poor and bring sighs from everybody .... through the barred and mys- terious portals of the Bursar ' s office passes the best money in the world — mine .... from mill and factory, Mountain Brook and Hollywood, the best money in the world finds the Bursar .... or the Deacon, who objects to politicians be- cause they distribute free lem- onade on election day . . . and through these bars students buy careers .... [5]