The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-04-06
JOYS OF LIFE
AT BLUE RIDGE
In Land of the Sky, Where Life
Is Worth Living, and Where
one Gets "Peppsd-Up."
(From The spectator.l


Though Blue Ridge is in the "Land
o. the Sky" you no not keep your head
il the clouds all the time, but come
ldlwn to earth from the heights to
which you ascend at lectures and
losses, and play-harder than you've
played since you were "little."
There are hikes that you just can't
miss. The trail to High Top is steep,
Bat it's worth the pull to stand up
there "on top o. the world and see
he buildings like dolls houses, the
aims crawling along in the valley,
Inc roads like a network of slender
! threads, and as for as the eye can
ee the mountains of misty blue. If
Excelsior" is your motto, you can
limb the steps of Webb's Tower, the
reat steel observation tower, and feel
eating about you the cold currents
OF the upper air. Then, too, you want
0 see the beautiful daisy field call
d Browns pasture; and # you can
ct a guide who knows the way the
hododendron and galax leaves are
rettiest in Wolf Pit. There's ano-
her hike along the open road to the
/ panish Castle, about which many
Mysterious tales are told.
Tennis and basket ball are in vogue
t Blue Ridge, as we'll as here. There
re intercollegiate matches and games
We cannot truthfully say that M. S.
c, W. has figured in these, though
'lorine Dale played a good game on
he Working Force team. Maybe wei
ave some champions in our delega-
ion this year.
After hike or tennis there may be
tine for swim. The pool, situated q
? ew yards from Lee Hall, furnishes a
: DOL recreation. It's water comes
+" rom sparkling mountain stream
: nd is always fresh, clear and cold
is a joy to the advocates of cole
y aths--also to good swimmers.
Of course the first thing to de
Z when you get to Blue Ridge is to gef
cquainted. The Conference opens
IA.
al with a big reception IN the lobby o.
Zee Hall. Here you meet the girl,
II rom all the. other colleges, about 60,
trong. After that there are no NOR,
trangers at Blue Ridge.
] One of the features of the Confer
e nee is Stunt Night, when the col
# |leges all meet together in a contes
of originality and ingenuity. Som
n. of the best stunts given at our Stun
Z Night here have been suggested b
n those at Blue Ridge.
ID Among the places of interest aroun
Blue Ridge are Grove Park Inn, tn
Biltmore estate, and Chimney Rocl
A Car trips are arranged for those dc
20 string to see these places and Others
~ These trips are very enjoyable an
I'd interesting part of the social life 8
g Blue Ridge.
p. A thing that you can never forge
81 about Blue Ridge is the singing. Their
$. is the poppy singing of the collee
O. delegations in the dining hall.
40 takes big delegation to make an in
n preston in songs and yells amid tn;
ls bedlam. After the rival singing Their
the colleges join together in commul
ity singing. A trained leader col
ducts the singing at all the service
- and the old hymns take ON a ne
meaning when everybody sings HI
best. There is singing in the moo
light from the cottages on the hi
/, ard serenades from sister college
81 Last summer there was song co
test among delegations for the be
original song of Blue Ridge. 1t w
one of the most interesting events
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