Oberlin College - Hi-O-Hi Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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Reference works and people collect in the long room; the hum of study and socializing hovers over the tables. Sometimes the immediate concern is when to leave for the Snack . Bar. Time and assignments go unheeded in the absorption of com- Concentratxon on meanmg obscured by ponderous grammar, a d115- panionship. cult concept, challenging theory, or the crucial chapter for an exam.

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Listening-each one in a separate world of rhythm and tone. Symphony or 5010, measured melody expresses more vividly than verbs the temper of a soul. TWenty-flve pencils transcribe similar hieroglyphics: a page an hour adds up to an impossible sheaf the night before the exam.

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Patchwork shelves of books, a spear of light in the stacks, the uniform illumination of the reading room . . . Rectangle worlds of marching print, inlinite bits of ink on catalogue cards lead to an idea. Rapport is formed in marginal dialogues with authors and anonymous notes of previous commentators. Tension of cramming fllls anxious minutes; hours waste in corridor conversations. A break in the Con Lounghanticipated through a lone hour of feverish practice, the conversation is all too short before another keyboard challenge, theory class, tricky score. '14 Distractions blocked by silence and the doors of the Music Educa- tion Library, reality is a printed page, abstracts organized into the concrete.