Davidson College - Quips and Cranks Yearbook (Davidson, NC)

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Witliiiut Aiiliiiiililc, (lur sUidcnt is k ' lt to ask tor tlic succour ol iin isibic Muses that come as unexpectedly as the riames of spontaneous combustion and depart just as mysteriously. JjLit solitude has its own merits, howexer absent they might seem at the time. Books are a part of man ' s prerogative; hi formal ink they thoughts and voices hold, That we to them our solitude may give, And make time present trance that of old. —Sir Thos. Overbury ■ ' • ' r- ' V. V iT 1 III 11 III ■

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Mcaiiw liilc, study in our own little wo rld can be made more plcasanl. 11 oiu ' is (ortunatc enouuji, by die presence ol a female companion. 1 he trend in modern curriculum awa trom the classics is supported by the implicit statement that one needn ' t know C reek to know . |ihiodite, whetlur insiiie or out. AdmittcdK ' . she can ham|x ' i- stud , but then attain there is nothino quite like reaping the fruits of literature together, especially if they be those jiroduced by the seeds (germs?) of Rabelais, D. H. Lawrence, or Henry Miller. -iV Av «jvr V

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lijt is callL-d l.iLiillv isiKili(in .1! I),i idson li is .is 111, m mc ' .ininas as tiarc arc picilcssiirs w lio open llu-ir lioiiscs to us. Manx sessions seem I utile, whether or not we lia e attended them with the olilest ukerior moti e (il a eollet e lio . lo main ol tlie prot ' essois the isits may also seem I utile, another iorm ol sell ' torture. But to offset this and the many ii)e(. ' tint;s which are bland, hrow n luisint; luill sessions, there are some whieh enjicnder excitement, fellowship, ami understandin . l.W f