University of North Carolina
Published: 2016-08-01
Total Pages: 466
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Excerpt from Yackety Yack, 1963 As freshmen we responded to the hoarse-mouthed exhortations of cheerleaders. We never questioned their right to demand our fealty, for as strangers we gladly swore allegi ance to the welcoming blue and white banner. Then it was glorious to im merse one's self in the roaring mass, and to sing the song after each con test. If we had won (walloping Wake or Dunkin g Dook, or whatever the alliterative aim), the song rang sweet with our calm acceptance of our superiority. If we had not won the past bauble of the day, our clear and true whisky-oiled voices drifted through Kenan Woods with the mo mentary sadness of autumnal loss of the short-lived melancholy of the young who cannot live with darkness. After the game we drank to the de lighted economic lechery of Harry and Sybil, of Spiro, Clarence, the Danziger's and the rest of the town's beer-peddlers. If we had lost to Duke, we drank to the end of the momentary world; but if we won. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.