Excerpt from Pine Needles, 1974The campus is busy tonight, there are organizational meetings in Elliott Hall. The cynicism of later in the year has not yet set in, and people are still willing to be cajoled into joining one of the many activities. They are returning from dinner now, stomachs trying to adjust to ara and its myriad delicacies. The leaves are still green on the trees, but it is the tired green of late summer when hot weather seems badly inappropriate. People are playing frisbee in the Quad prior to settling down to study. Later tonight there will be a water fight and the freshman girls will allow the guvs from Hinshaw to massacre them. The battle lines will change several times before weary housemothers call a halt.There is still an air of newness, of excitement, if it can be called that. Especially is this true for the freshmen, but it also spills into those jaded upperclassmen who count the semesters remaining. It's the feeling of a fresh start, and underlining it is the first premonition of cold weather.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.