Shorter College - Argo Yearbook (Rome, GA)

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MORNING Morning at Shorter means coming slowly and sleepily back to consciousness with the persistent clang of rising bells and alarm clocks, then turning over to catch forty more winks before the breakfast bell rings. It means hurrying down a long, unlighted corridor or shivering through the icebox, looking at your watch as you go to make sure the dining room hasn ' t closed. It means bacon and toast, sausage and grits, tomato juice and raising the flag. It means gathering in S.C.A. on the way home from breakfast for morning watch, rushing down on Wednesdays with arms loaded to scribble a list before the laundry goes out, a last minute straightening of your living room because yesterday you found two inspection slips, and girls running to make the eight o ' clock bus on days when they practice teach. p It means a walk to the Fine Arts Building— trying to keep your hair dry on a wet day, caught up in a cloud on a foggy morning, shivering in January when you ' ve forgotten your coat, and on an April day being so affected by the signs of spring all around that you wind up in the rockery instead of a practice room. It means finding out about Napoleon and Ju SnTSn, comparing Greek with Roman art, working equations and memorizing formulas, reading Shakespeare and Thomas Hardy, delving into the philosophies of Aquinas and Kant, spelling phonetically, analyzing a Shostakovich symphony, taking notes on genes and chromosomes, and conjugating a French or a Latin verb. It means a between-class dash to your mailbox, and a coke with crackers in the book- store after chapel. It means sharpened pencils and scribbled notes to a classmate in the margin of your notebook. It means some of the best hours of your life, spent on the real reason you are at Shorter. It means hustle and bustle, and, multiplied by many weeks and months, ornlng means accomplishment and the accumulation of something called education. m