Brevard College - Pertelote Yearbook (Brevard, NC)

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TIME MARCHES ON . . . and throughout the year, Brevard College stu- dents have been seemingly snowed under by as- signments and classes. Spread it on thick may have been the faculty ' s campaign slogan for the past academic year, as countless students spent countless hours with their noses buried between the pages of countless books. Racking the brain to finish assignments on time has been a daily routine this year, and the exam season marked the obliteration of social life and a mass retali- ation to all-niters, those dandy little cram ses- sions that saved participants the trouble of mak- ing their beds the following morning (and in some instances may have saved the participant ' s grade point average). For every teacher who spread it on thick , though, there were always ambitious students who were willing to spread it on thicker , and thus help to uphold Brevard ' s high academic rating, and their own, too. Fair exchange, wouldn ' t you say?

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' TWAS THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS. . and all over campus, visions of sugar plums, the Christmas tree lighting ceremony, and the annual Christmas dance wandered through the weary heads of exam-torn Bre- vard College students. The mail- boxes were stacked in the soda shop with care, in hopes that Secret Santa would soon fill them with happiness gifts . Not a creature was stirring, not even the ants who feast- ed on boxes of Christmas cookies that had been sent from home. In a day or so the campus would be the scene of a mass exodus as the stu- dent body dispersed for one whole month away from teachers and books. But in the meantime, if San- ta could only drop through the heat- ing duct and leave a copy of that History final on my desk . . .