Middle Tennessee State University - Midlander Yearbook (Murfreesboro, TN)

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' Mf-- i ff: In conquering these challenges, MTSC proved itself. The growth from a State Normal School to a State Teach- er ' s College to a liberal arts college has been a history of expanding goals and purpose. This is the past . without it the present could not have been reahzed . . . without it there could be no hope for the future. As we look at these nostalgic reminders of the past we observe our foundations . . our origins. From this we grew.

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THE PAST 1911 ... a significant date for the students of MTSC. This was the beginning, the first movements which were to create in the mid-state area a new center of learning and intellectual achievement. The present and the future can never be corhpletely separated from the past for these early beginnings helped to determine the standards, the policies and the goals which have formed the MTSC that now exists, the MTSC that we know. The past is a long record of struggle . . . the birth throes and the struggle of gaining political sanction for the founding of a new educational institution . . . the development of a program that would attract students of high caliber . . . the fight to survive a depression and two world wars. These are significant chapters of the past.

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THE PRESENT The observation of the past calls for a tribute to those who have preceded us. A look at the present calls for an evaluation of what we are ... of our purposes . . . our aspirations . . . our accomplishments. Even as we have observed this FIFTIETH ANNI- VERSARY, we have become a part of the past . . . our actions will determine new patterns, new trends and new standards. Even as we now judge those who pre- ceded us, we will one day be critically observed. There will be much to commend us . . .a championship football team, ... a superior speech program ... an expanding faculty and curriculum . . . students who demonstrated academic superiority.