Chatham College - Cornerstone Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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No Frustration? All too soon cxarns creep up on us. and viih iheni conic long nights and hazy days. Professors disappear be- hind closed doors: the library becomes yoin- home away Irom home and the electric light bills climb sky high. But then lire lirst exam is o er and there are only fotn more to go. Smokers and non smokers imile in the hall to take a half-way break and to groan over vhat ' s taken place and vhat ' s to come. Books and little pieces of paper appear at dinner and breakfast — and even on trolley cars a mumbled cjuiet hoins can be heard. The pinpose for exams is also realized at this time. It is not a surprise to hear a tired, yet satisfied student come out of an exam with the comment that that test helped to put all of the pieces together. It is then that everyone begins to realize that education is a serious bus- iness and not to be tossed off as another experience. And it is then that many resolutions are made concerning the coming semester. But despite the academic accom- plishment, it is a wonderlul feeling to kno v that vhen exams are all over, we can again retreat witli a clear con- science to Sodini ' s Hideway.

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OUR FINAL YEAR We have reached the end of those four busy, hectic, and rewarding years which our mothers have long been telling us are the happiest of our lives. The worries of final examinations, tutor- ials, and student teaching have now faded in the excitement of preparations for graduation and in the sti(MpyT flow jof memories — of our victory at throng contest, of dances and weekends, of walK p Walnut Street, of skat- ing on Mellon Pond Sfij ttPfphilosophy of life is to be put to the «BH ' ' leave Chat- ham for graduate school, jotI r:.