Greensboro College - Echo Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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that others may learn — it ' s the push — the warm afternoon on front cam- pus. It ' s patience — bent backs and hunched shoulders — sore eyes. It is a time to learn — to remember — to collect. It is a lampost — a flicker of light — of truth. We are the new frontier — the builders of tomorrow — parties and dances — bluebooks and term papers. We ore the re- visions of traditions — we are stu- dents. In totality, college is based on the common task of academic life. It results from time spent to- gether, no matter how brief, pur- suing mutual interests, offering mu- tual support, and experiencing mu- tual disappointment and delight. Its strength appears at strange and ex- citing moments — in the solace of a lonely lamppost, in a philosophy class, in a campus political com- paign, when a college flies its flog at half-mast and mourns the death of a head-of-state, or when its be- loved president resigns his position. Page Nineteen

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It ' s the strange sensation you feel your first trip home after o long while away — it ' s the feeling you get the last time you leave — never to return. College is scaffolds on the back of Main — columns — expan- sion — frustration. College is a pro- fessor giving of his own time in order x »

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We are now sensible people — the farsighted, levelheaded, scientific thinkers of tomorrow. The fanatics are something which belongs to by- gone days. We all — Ban-the-bomb groups, civil right marchers, country club members, newspaper editors, lawmakers — now think scientifical- ly — thus dismissing the various cru- dities and imperfections of yester- day. We examine, we probe, we dis- sect — and we conclude. And all around us the lights burn — some strong, some in various stages of disintegration — and some dead. Wouldn ' t you say? METHODISTS SAY No Thank You WHEN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ARE SERVED