Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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OUTDOOR LIFE AT ANTIOCH with rz few exceptions 168

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my am LUE sky. Brilliant sunshine. Softness in the air. To- morrow it will snow fthe Geology Department says solj but for today we play at Spring. It is the iv M iii Glen Parade. No strutting drum-major leads this glad parade, though Sammy does the honors for as many units as possible. And no martial music keeps this parade in step. Music here is only a phantom-a hint of the melody that will Wing its way from the South. But still-it is the Glen Parade. Signs of Spring -remember Olla Podrida? That is a part of the Glen Parade. All those pale creatures who sat list- lessly in the parlors of North Hall have tasted the strong Wine of Life and they Wander happily over the soddcn leaves that still hide the earth from spring. Fine friendships around the campfire. Starlit skies and deep shadows. Laughter tags this story-but we all look up at night when it is the Glen Parade. Bright wooly sweater-suits flashing through the still barren branches. Faculty children have gathered to share in the fete The sober Professor -- seeks out dry leaves and wood while Mrs. Professor -- spreads a tempting display in wax-paper. The first soft day of the year sees this pageant-and all the other soft days that break into the hold of winter until spring is surely come. For each such day we keep gayety at hand 5 a bright scarf 5 dancing feetg and a joy in being. It is the Glen Parade! 167

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Q ROM the moment the first robin appears in the sprin 37,5 till the arrival of the first blizzard and influenza in fl 'l ' g the fall, Antioch life is predominantly outdoor. Not only the sporting life but even the academic and social life occurs under the open sky. This outdoor life appears in many and various forms, ranging from steak roasts to a collation on the campus fwhatever that isj at commencement. Perhaps we should begin with steak roasts which consume much of the time. These functions are gotten up either by a hall, for some unaccountable reason, or by a group of girls for the dual purpose of showing off their domesticity to their boy friends as Well as getting a date for some of their less fortu- nate friends f She's adorable, you will like her a lot sort of thingj. f-'eel' , Q. fir Ciifwix ,s Q--Q'-ba li It has been our rare good fortune never to have lived in a hall which felt that social life had gone into such a decline that a steak roast was necessary to lift it out of the doldrums. However we have been to several of the other variety, which perhaps is the reason we are no longer the bright carefree youth we once were. The preliminary work for these little fetes is done by the girls who are hostesses. They go down town and buy so many pounds of what is apparently dog meat, potato chips, pickles, coffee, paper plates etc., always forgetting something vital, usually bread or sugar. On the appointed evening two couples arrive shortly be- fore dark, select a site and start to gather firewood-not too hurriedly for the rest are due at any minute. Shortly afterwards 169