Radford University - Beehive Yearbook (Radford, VA)

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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.

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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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It usually begins in a sensible, healthful, standard position. Then, as the chapters get longer, the problems more complicated, the vowel shifts more difficult to trace, and the examples seemingly endless, the spine weakens, the chin drops, the head aches. On the academic level it’s called study. On the floor of the bath at three AM it’s called misery. Sometimes there are ways to avoid it. Shoes need polishing, the wash needs washing, a bridge game is a social obligation. There is one advantage to it. It makes tests easier and the I lonor System work better.