Radford University - Beehive Yearbook (Radford, VA)

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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.

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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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A true friend will call you just at that point when one more exception to the rule will ruin your disposition. The ring of the hall phone is many things to every girl. To the girls nearest the phone it is a curse. To the girl getting a surprise call from her fella it is a miracle. To the girl recuperating from homesickness it brings a relapse. To the girl who hears everyone else get her call, and gets none herself, it is depressing. Spanning the gap between the classroom and the Cove there is a drawbridge. It’s always rising at t h e strangest moments. It catches everybody — students, professors, kibitzers.