Harris Stowe State University - Torch Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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symptoms lim sure everyone knowsg that slow, hesi- tating Walk, that faraway, dreamy look in the eyesg that inability to concentrate on hooks and classes! How tired you get the minute you step into a classroom, and how hard you try to take notes. How lucky to have a seat at the hack of the room. This is the time when exeryone hut you seems to have free periods. You can see the people relaxing in the sun in front ol the building, some walking hand in hand, some sitting on the benches, others preferring to sit on good old terra firma. Instead of books in their hands, lemonade and other soft drinks are substituted. And where are you? Natehl Up in one of those ulovelyn classrooms. Yes, it always seems that fate and those ever present classes keep you from enjoying the wonders of spring. However, in spite of all the temptations, you somehow manage to get through the spring season without missing too many classes. And, you pass all your courses! Happy, happy day! Even though it is a season of many trials and tribu- lations, what would you do without this refreshingly won- derful, sweet, sweet spring? The crack of a bat. Track men practice as warm weather appears. Twenty-one

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pring Fever Sweeps Campus All! Sweet, sweet spring. No other season Can com- pare with spring. As you look out the window of one of the rooms overlooking the campus. you see the beau- tilul blue sky, dotted ever so slightly with powder-pull clouds. Then, gazing downward, you see the stately Pin Oaks. faintly' tinged with green. Ah. yes! Sweet Springl The smell of the air. so fresh and Clear. Indeed. spring is a wonderful season. So many' things to do. Athletes busy preparing for the track season. Trying to regain the skill and speed lost during the winter months. Most any time during the day. some of these busy stars Can be seen huffing and puffing around the track, some jumping over the hurdles, others still falling over them. There are also javelin and discus throwers ready to show their skill and power to anyone willing to stand and watch. On the baseball diamond there were gathered all the 'arookiesw and old pros practicing various skills. There is pitching. catching. fielding. and hitting going on simultaneously over the entire field. These are the ambitious peopleg they eanit afford to be hit by spring fever. But - as usual, the majority has been bitten by the bug known as spring fever. The as A Twenty Spring is in the air. is v Harris takes the lead.

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Q0 Counselors Gain Experience with Children Volunteer 1-ounselnrs from Harris enjoyed their in-ek with Sixtli-grzule eurlipers while gaining xalualile experi- enve ixorking with etiilctren. Swine of the aetixitif- in vluftefl nature hikes, vook-outs. Slilli-glilltllg. vanipfire sing- ing. and fl skit nl- lit ri - All ton won tht meek JI ' lass:-rt and tlxe !'UllllSPi1lI'4 re- turnelt to sr-lnml with only one vonnnent: Let s go 1 nn next year. mt?