Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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room, relaxed peaceful doze. CONCENTRATED CRAMMING When you got to the library and had read the same page for the fifth time, you found that copy of your favorite magazine in your pile of books. You flipped its pages and laughed at the cartoons while half of the other students in the room glanced at you with intolerance, even though some of them were thinking about getting a daie for the next movie or dance. Maybe one of them was thinking about the next vacation he would have from assignments and tests and term papers, the next time he would go home. You tried the textbook again after hiding the magazine from your- self, and after a while you felt sleepy, and it was a temptation not to rest your head for a moment on your arms. And so you crammed for your tests. Perhaps for you this wasn ' t the three-point year. Some students failed, and certainly almost everyone flunked one test or another over the year. Perfect test grades were rare, and after the year was ended, indeed after every test was returned, you wondered how much better you could have done if you had worked harder. Still it took a lot. Study was, is, and always will be hard work. And how determinedly you proceeded to study depended upon whether you had fortitude. Behind these windows, some napped, some looked out, some did research, some studied, some necked. 15

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More interesting, easier reading than homework Studies You often had the courage and determination, especially when you came back to campus last fall. This was a three- point year. So you wisely confined your extra-curricular activ- ities, and still the dates, bull sessions, and movies chipped away your hours. But at times the determination came back — before a big test. You were determined to study, determined to ace the test the next day. You wondered why you never did get around to hitting the books until the night before. Then, with thoughts of how hard you would study, with thoughts of working late into the night and of the high grade you would get, you strode down the brick walks to the library. It took courage to read some of the textbooks, when you had to read a page sixteen times before you realized its import. And maybe you mused over whether the book ' s diffi- culty was what attracted the faculty to it. A brave smile, a determined stare.

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