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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f' LN when it is pitch dark, the rest stumble in and ask why the hell anyone ever picked such a lousy place for a fire and why didn't you get more wood and other similar interrogations cal- culated to add a note of gaiety to the occasion. By this time the fire is a magnilicent smoke screen and the original expeditionary forces retire to rest their srnarting eyes, as do most of the others. No matter how starving any member of the party was at the outset he is usually sated now. There are always two or three, however, who will not let well enough alone, and soon the Lucullan feast is being prepared. A section of chicken wire is spread across the fire and the steaks are placed upon it. After minor burns are received by those attempting to cook the meat, the coffee is placed on the fire and the party is Well under way. After charred beef between bread has been downed with gulps of luke warm coffee, and the more severe burns and abrasions have been dressed, the guests wander off by twos for -sirl, leaving the debris to be collected by some suffering guest who then scuttles off to Moxie's for something to eat or to the infirmary for necessary repairs. There are hiking groups who rise at the crack of dawn and trek for miles of a Sunday morning. We shall not attempt to describe these affairs for the very excellent reason that under no circumstances would we get up early on Sunday morning to meet the Queen of Rumania, let alone hiking through the glen. Another very popular reason for staying away from one's room is what is laughingly called swimming. It occupies some I7I