Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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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

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OUTDOOR LIFE AT ANTIOCH with rz few exceptions 168

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