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I Southern’s academic criteria, it would seem, would be as most college’s: part viable and part drivel— an occasional quickening toward creative learning as the wheat is separated from the chaff and personalized into viability. Or perhaps, as Lewis Carroll’s Mock Turtle in ALICE IN WONDERLAND would have it, education reduced to: “Reeling and writhing of course, to begin with . . . and the three branches of arithmetic — ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.” “And how many hours a day did you do lessons?” said Alice. “Ten hours the first day,” said the Mock Turtle, “nine hours the next, and so on.” What a curious plan!” exclaimed Alice. “That’s the reason they’re called lessons,” the Gryphon remarked, “because they lessen from day to day.” Then the eleventh day must have been a holiday?” “Of course it was,” said the Mock Tur¬ tle. “And how did you manage on the twelfth?” Alice went on eagerly. “That ' s enough about lessons.” Opening 7
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If nothing else, students became adept in the fine art of juggling: juggling classes, professors, money, books, parents, schedules, friends— time. Southerners divied out precious time between pressing educational demands, campus and social activities and jobs that afforded either a few extra dollars or next semester’s tuition. Term papers, lab reports, and mid-terms were cranked out between vacations. Days were measured in terms of only 3 1 2 weeks until Thanksgiving or 10 more class days until Christmas. Priorities were established, consciously or through daily habit: 6 hours in the student union with cards, cue sticks, and Rolling Stones and 2 hours in class, perhaps; or, 5 hours in class, 2 hours in the library. And anywhere in between those two extremes. 8 Opening
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