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

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and .=Jjate6 . . . ike =JJ)i orm. and nt ravnvi a WALKING UP TO ANDREWS HALL after an evening , where you can ' t look starry- eyed in a bunch of playful fraternity brothers. A l lace where midnight is early to bed and water l)attles are frequent occurrences. Where Doc plays deaf when the furniture gets thrown around, and strikes and spares are made on tliird floor. A place where life is raw and rough, and you have to be able to take it. A place that is a preview to life in an army bar- racks. THE SWIMMING POOL. Coach Ben teaching frightened-but - not - admitting - it stu- dents how to keep afloat. The pool itself stretching its long green cool length before you as you gather courage to jacknige in. Boys sing- ing in the locker rooms, voices yelling at Henry for tennis rackets and golf clubs, the V-T Rock- ettes training out in Alunger Bowl, the shorts- and-sweat-shirt crowd coming in from track practice or a tennis game. This is the $300,000 gym that you helped build. It is the brick and mortar symbol of muscles and strength and energy and skill. FOOTBALL GAMES, with frat men block- ing frat men, the huddles with their 15 rah ' s when the game ' s over, coeds yelling on the side- lines for a man who ' s a hero if he makes a touchdown against the KA ' s. Basketball, with the thrill of putting one in ; volley ball, when you have to remember to set up ; horseshoe and archery tournaments, ping pong and ten- nis — everybody playing all over the gym and all over the Bowl Everybody being Intram- urally inclined. h . .

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mn6 .rJja oiwmvis ' i wiyyiwiina THE PROFESSORS. Mr. Hunt ' s brusque Hello , Dr. Constans ' pepper and salt tweeds. Dr. Evans, who is still a jolly Tweedledum. Dr. Posey who for the last time tells his stories and wears his outrageous ties on the Hill. Mr. Ab grinning disarmingly. Dr. Poor with his yes marm , Sensabaugh declaring break- fast-in-class holidays. Men who make Bir- mingham-Southern College what it is, men who are valuable for their minds and spirits. ] [en who can teach classes and drink cokes and play baseball equally well. Men who are your friends as well as your professors. Men who make the Hilltop. SADH HAWKINS DAY, the harem scar- em Hilltop holiday when the Dean appeared in overalls and Mama Boyd brought all her goon- lings out to catch a loon. Iggie Moriarty yield- ing the 1943 Sadie Hawkins title to Lil Culley, with Jimmy Watts being crowned as the Hill ' s first Li ' l Abner. The grand chase where men use their legs and women use their shotguns, the sack races, the coed football game, the bon- fire with Mr. Anderson silhouetted against the fire. And the dance, where all illusions about the beauty of Hilltop coeds are shattered. It is the grand and glorious day when Birmingham- Southern College, her seniors and sophomores, her faculty and freshmen, go beserk and stay that way from 12:00 a.m. to 1 2:00 p.m. DATES when a sofa and a fire and a hand to hold mean everything. Dates for movies and dances, steak fries and kid parties. Dates on the bus with all the dormitory girls and their men riding home together after the last show. Loons hang- ing aroui:d Goon Castle to get ini- tiated at 11:00, boys showing up at the Beta House to claim their coeds. Blind dates and steady dates. Good dates and bad. Dates for fun and dates when you pin your best girl. Dates for lunch at your fraternity house, dates in the library at night. Holding hands as you walk from the lius line to her house, standing on the j orch to say good-night, or com- ing in to light a fire and get fed. Dates you will have left behind, re- luctantl}-. Girls you will have left behind, sadlv.

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' dnlakt Lyli . . . LymcLai and the CRAMMING FOR EXAMS — studying into the wee hours when the rest of the house is quiet and the pages blur. Drinking a huge amount of coffee and stuffing crackers to keep awake. Walking into class the next day with your hands full of blue books and sharpened pencils and filled fountain pens. Struggling through exams about muscles and nerves, try- ing to remember the causes of the Industrial Revolution, racking your brain for the ]iarts of the endoctrine system, wondering what reveil- er means. Walking out of exams with stiff fingers and an exhausted brain, stumbling to the bookstore in search of a coke. Then forget- ting all you studied, starting off on a new cycle cramming, studying into the wee hours, drinking a huge amount of coffee to keep awake. THAT QUAKING FEELING just before you open a letter signed Wyatt W. or Newman M. Wondering whether it will be good news or bad, too many cuts, too much money due, too ow erades. Rushing to set home before vour report comes in, and wondering if you ' ll get switches for Christmas if the grades arrive be- fore you do. Considering the meekness of the little letters that mean a quarter ' s work, hours cramming, pages of outside reading. Wishfully thinking it will be better next quarter. Opening vour report with fear, c losing it with trembling. WAITING FOR THE MAIL to be put up at 8 :30 and 2 :30. Peer- ing into Number 47 or 15 or 29 for a letter, a bill, or even a postcard. Hoping the box will be full of blue- stationery - morale-building epistles ; hoping it won ' t be filled with offi- cial - nerve- u psetting letters begin- ning From the President of the United States, greetings. You have been selected. . . Getting impatient when Lee is the least bit late with the mail, waiting for a letter from home or girl or somebody.