Blackburn College - Beaver Tales Yearbook (Carlinville, IL)

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Father Time runs faster than most students. And stu- dents often find that they must juggle as they run. They juggle study with work, and, when they are fairly adept ut that, they try juggling study and work with play. fBut only when they think no one is watching, and usually with the air of mz1rtyrs.j And in this manner, in the freshman year, students hcgin traveling the well-worn path to the diploma, 21 path not made smoother by the fact that hundreds have taken it before. Students get their first inkling that it isn't going to be easy when they try to get their class cards from the bookstore for the first time, getting their .gr .,-9' XS

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This pursuit tukcs many different mules and runs into many obstacles. Anyone likcning thc pursuit ol' higher lC2ll'llil1g to an obstacle course woulclrft bc far wrong i11 his analogy. Pcrhzlps thc biggest obstacle is that is

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M toes stepped on in the rush, and arriving to their first class late, limping-but victorious. It doesn't take long to discover, either, that term papers not only don't grow on Blackburn bushes, but also aren't created in an even- inff. lAlthouUh orchids should be awarded to all those D D who faithfully cling to the belief-throughout four .... A new-:Mes . --1,azfffzr.mwsHsz1ewH M. .. eww 'iw