Lipscomb University - Backlog Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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“SUMMERTIME, AND the living is easy,” if you don’t have to study, and Lipscomb is no exception to the rule as students forsake cool classrooms. NASHVILLE’S MONSOONS forced the luau inside the student center where grass skirts remained dry. a = = woven: ov fe anoancnne. aaa GEORGE WASHINGTON provided the plot and Rod Smith provided the dry, stoic humor in the comedy, George Washington Slept Here. 18

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SORENESS OF muscles seemed to be the order of the day as freshmen dispelled energy before taking books and pencils to class. SLIPPERY GRASS provided the setting for night courses in foreign relations freshman-style, Flying Dutchman. KINDERGARTEN TACTICS gave way to pseudo-maturity as green freshmen tried their hands at Drop-the-Handkerchief.

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Warmth Enhances Chilly Academics The winds of change at Lipscomb have grad- ually blown away the traditionally revered belief that summer time is for working or loafing for col- lege students. In June of 1962, the course offer- ings and social advantages were expanded at DLC with the hope of establishing a genuine four-quart- er educational facility. From that summer the program has matured to a goal-fulfilling reality with even brighter horizons visible. The increased academic emphasis placed on the year-round operation of the school has failed to curb the ever-present hot-weather extracurricular schedule, however. There were the melon messes; the light comedy “George Washington Slept Here’; the campus-wide luau (victim of a rain-storm and a shortage of spare ribs) ; softball games; tennis; or just lolling around in the shade of a tree to give a reprieve from the less savory offerings of a labora- tory or library. But still the proper balance be- tween the two is the goal of the summer quarter student as well as the fall, winter, or spring quarter scholar, for at Lipscomb education has no season. DRIPS WERE accepted, or tolerated, as coeds bit into the juicy redness of ripened watermelons. WATERMELONS SEEM endless as they are piled on tables before eager students at Lipscomb’s most popular summer event, the Melon Mess.