Radford University - Beehive Yearbook (Radford, VA)

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The first step to study is getting to classes. The trek to Founders in fall’s crisp air for many girls means dashing across the grass in a last desperate attempt to boat the final chimes, while their sisters, free from classes for a while, slowly amble to the Cove to check the mail and talk over a coke. A spring sun helps to brighten up the walk, but winter snow, spring sun, or fall rains, the walk to class will always be a lasting memory of Radford. Whether the eight o'clock student remembers the lecture or not, she will remember the early morning frosted grass and a misty campus, cool and sparkling with dew. Some girls will never finish their walk. The call of sun and spring breezes is sometimes irresistible. In 1913 girls returned to I.a Belle Inn for dinner. Miss Terry and Miss Harrison go through the turnstile at the main entrance to Founders to classes in 1914.

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There was a day when the automobile was a contraption for the Radford girl. Now her world is a great complex of wires, brushes, strange twists, and minor and major crises. Her new-found freedom makes her enter into flag waving with a vigor and her opinions upon her subject matter nonplus her wary instructors. The womans opinion on everything from politics to poofs has become the most sought after item of the twentieth century—and yet the easiest to obtain. The modern ladies will try any field or topic and they usually succeed even if the effort is enough to flip their wigs.

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 The core of our life at Radford is the classroom. The hours of preparation-spent in our rooms, in the library, in special corners of our own, on the lawn, in cars, in bed, at desks, at kitchen tables, in showers—are all centered about the subjects introduced in the lecture. Shorter skirts and fifty years of cliangc don't alter the glisten of rain on the walk in front of Founders. The sudden shower after class calls notebooks to extra duty.