Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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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

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