Southern Illinois University - Obelisk Yearbook (Carbondale, IL)

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Muddy days are the price paid for new buildings, progress willing. He looked around at the familiar sur- roundings, usually so hopelessly crowded, and thought about the big, permanent Union being planned. That'll be something to see, he thought. VVish we had it now. Listening to the rain on the roof, he remem- bered another rainy day, the preceding fall. That had been a bad day, a flat, gray day. The term was beginning to catch up with him, and he'd struggled through two pop tests. He'd had to slosh through almost ankle deep mud to get out to the new Life Science building for class. It had seemed the last straw when the jani- tor frowned at him for tracking mud in the hall where he'd just swept, but then, in class, he'd broken a test tube and cut his finger. He was ready to tell the whole place to go to smash. He hated everyone and every- thing connected with Southern. 1 But then he'd run into her during the 1 break between periods, and theyid gone outside and played around like kids, walking planks and dodging pud- dles, and then had sat on the en- trance rail and talked a while. He'd felt better about things then. Perhaps Southern wasnit such a bad place to be after all. Perhaps the mud and inconvenience were just a part of progress and expansion. He'cl remem- bered, then, how held felt the first days of class in the new building. There was something about the sparkling new labs that made even elm leaves seem interesting, and he was glad that he had waited 'till his senior year to take Botany. His no , -.

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