Southern Illinois University - Obelisk Yearbook (Carbondale, IL)

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Line standing ond coed hours adviser had had frequent fits. After all, Botany was supposed to be a freshman year course. That was one of the things he was going to miss about college-being able to ehange the routine of things every three months. A year was going to seem awfully long when he had a job and did the same thing day after day. But one thing he would not miss, he thought, was that line to get books every term. But even that had been fun the time theyid gone to summer school and breezed through the bookstore in just fifteen minutes - an all- time record. There were a lot of things he was going to miss. The dances and parties, dates and picnics, foot- ball and basketball games. And the classes and teachers, too. Most of them weren't so bad. Many -unmourned college traditions of them, he had enjoyed. And he honestly be- lieved that he knew more-was a better person, like they said-now than four years ago. Four years! he thought. This has seemed like home. l hate to leave it. Vvonder if I'll ever feel the same about any other place? A Student Union Clerk came into the room and turned off the TV set. Sorry, but it's 10-time to close up, he said. She stood up and said, lt isn't June 12, either, and l've still got to keep hours. Lets go. I-le tucked his arm about her. v, Thats one thing I'll not miss, having to get you back into VVoody Hall before they lock the doors up, he said. Hey, look, the rain's stopped. A bright moon was peeping through the clouds as they went down the walk.

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