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

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dedication to dr-. cocil e. abernetlky what we are and will be is largely determined by the influence of others upon us in the years of our mental growth and development, elements of both good and evil are nourished by our association with those whom we respect and admire, it is in this way that our teachers have the deepest effect upon us and it is for this reason that the importance of their task cannot be overemphasized. realizing this, we gratefully dedicate this 1949 southern accent to dr. Cecil e. abernethy, whose influence has always been highly conducive to the development of ambition, integrity, and love of learning in us his students, his zeal for advancement in the stand- ards of the college, his personal code of ethics, and his vast knowl- edge of the esoteric and romantic have in large part made the latter years of our education enriched beyond our hopes, it is under his guidance that we have learned to appreciate the present through cherishing the literature of the past, the memory of our days at birmingham-southern will always be influenced by our veneration and affection for doctor ab. n r iiaFir«

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classes took up a large part of the days with chapters to be devoured and notes to be taken and forgotten, the most pleasant way to study was out on the lawn, but it seemed that those study groups always turned into gab sessions, still we must have learned some- thing even if -it was only how to balance armloads of books.