Birmingham Southern College - Southern Accent Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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■ ;i rfVt 1 i- ■ 1 ' T .?T r V ■ ■»■■ I- ' - .1 , r ' t J nil ' ' ' ' ■ -■ 4 • - 4 , So what ' s it all about? Liberal arts — or are they seven deadly arts conspiring for aberration of the practical? If you are an English major, where will CeHnOs ever fit into the rime scheme of things? Answers or questions? Is this education merely exercise for a brain heading toward rigor mortis — and diffusion of knowledge, the preserva- tive? Is there any sense in the thought that knowing where the scala vestibuli is located will lend skill to those whose father doesn ' t own the business ? And is it possible that the mother will gain insight into her children ' s behavior from a list of constellations she once memorized and located? A tisket, a tasket . . . . — a 36(f window for the mind to view panoramic-ally all there is to see and hear and touch and smell and know. But where is the grand culmination of the conglomeration of Freud, Tennyson, Newton, Spinoza, Pascal, and Rembrandt? An airline stewardess juggling trays— what does she think about? Benjamin Franklin had over 100 illegitimate children — because the American Lit book was read and digested and re- gurgitated on finals one December? It is said that there is a purpose for everything under the sun .... today — to- morrow .... where does it all lead — this liberal arts education? 15

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' f« t r- ' iw - % ' ' Southern students witness an admirable dis- play of Panhellenism among sororities and fra- ternities during Greek Week every spring. Unof- ficial Olympic games with such events as the pillow fight rbelow righU, button-sewing con- test, and barrel-rolling enliven the festivities. As prologue to the entire week a torch-bearing runner from Athens— Alabama, that is — ap- pears on the quadrangle fbelow left); as epi- logue the Greek chorus rbelow extreme leftj resounds in the amphitheatre. ANNUAL OLYMPIC GAMES: A Display of Panhellenism 5m