Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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SOPHOMORES Frederick Thomas Adams, Clarlq af Marion Piper Adams, Yello Harry Milford Barnes, Utiea, Nez l Hester Adeline Bassett, Ye Frank Ambrose Beach, Ir., Margaret Scott Bear, Miamisharg z Clara MaBelle Berry, Wash Marie Iean Best, Columbus, Theresa Rose Black, Toledo, Elinor Blount, Maplewood, Lalqe, Michigan Springs, Ohio u Yorlq ow rings, Ohio I Sp Em poria, Kansas ', Ohio n gton, D. C. Ohio Ohio New lersey

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, x . V ' 6 .. Q2 . P 5' ,yas 4 m I 5, ' N- ' . ' in ' If f ' X I M. -: I ff .3 y fl 7 T? :Qs NCE upon a time a tiny scribe stood gazing thought- I' XSS . G ' it ' full at ten white a es which la about her Each I, .fy Y P 8 Y page was a month long and four weeks wide- M- and disconcertingly blank. With a mighty sigh the scribe picked up her pen and set to work. For she was none other than the editor of the Calen- dar Section of the 1930 Towers, and the pages were the months of that year at Antioch. With a hesitancy born of inexperience, she chose a spot for September 9 and recorded there, icMIXER.77 In the weeks that followed, her pen was often in her hand. She marked down many symbols for dances--Saturday night dances with confetti, crazy hats, Eskimo pies, spot-lightsg the Hanchett Hall Formal, the Baker House Reunion 5 signs for steak-roasts and for sleigh-rides, signs for Leap Weeks and the new Little Theater and for Open House. The sheets became torn at the edges and blotted and smudged with ink. Then one day the scribe looked at her work and a strange thought came into her mind. Some people might have called it genius, others would say it was simply laziness. At any rate this reckless scribe snatched up gleaming scissors and started cutting busily. When she had finished she crumpled up the scraps of months that were left and threw them far away. The pieces that were left she put into neat little piles and bound them together with broad ribbons that she called the spirit of the thing -or in an unguarded moment, Hessencef' QI

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1-4- The scribe, it seems, had grown weary of all those signs, so many of them exactly alike, so she had chosen this Way to keep her calendar. And when the end of the year came and the Chief Scribe came to her for her record, she showed him the gayly bound packets and smiled pleadingly into his eyes, for she wanted him to be pleased. But the Chief Scribe only took them gravely and said to her, It is not for me, my child. It is for these others that you are keeping watch. And he pointed far off in the distance to a land where crowds of people moved about under three huge banners-The Past, The Present, and The Future. Then he Went away, taking the little packets with him, and the girl stood on the hillside where he had left her, strain- ing forward to see into the distance and learn if her gift would be acceptable. 93