University of the South - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Sewanee, TN)

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Gownsmen engaged in a conversation between classes. walked across the cold deserted campus to begin that final review before my quiz. While I walked I recalled the beginning of the year and all the hurry and urgency of Rush Week. I remembered its cheers and shouts, the meetings lasting late into the night, the hours spent waiting in lines and the thousands of handshakes. I remembered its falseness and all the bad things about it, but I also remembered its sincerity and the warm happy faces when it was over. I remembered all the turmoil and confusion during registration and I recalled that horrible morning when I had to climb out of bed and struggle over to my first day of classes. Catching up on the world events while waiting for the afternoon mail. 12:27 P.M.

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John Jacob Niles rehearses with the choir in preparation for their concert. The sense is as the life and the soul of language, with- out which all words are dead. Sense is wrought out of experience, the knowledge of human life and actions, or of the liberal arts. — Ben Jonson. snow and the silvery pines which sloped down the hill. Above it to the left hung the grey and purple clouds. Below it to the right on the broken hillside were scattered the silver pines and the ancient and naked oaks that grope their way to touch far down the dark valley. Here is a high lost world of its own, a special world because it is my own. I dressed slowly and left without disturbing my roommate ' s sleep. I TO ETERNITY Everyone lives in a world of dreams, and aren ' t dreams reality while they last?

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THOU CANST MAKE ME From this point on, everything is blurred and out of place — it all fuses into one long memory. Classes all day, studying until the early hours of dawn, good conversations between close friends and a feeling of closeness that comes only from understanding. And yet even in the At times it is necessary to relax and forget such mundane things as books. Sewanee ' s dogs are among the world ' s best loved animals.