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

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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.

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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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And there will be some that will condemn . . . the student who didn ' t quite make it . . . the opportunities we passed up . . . the moments we wasted, . . but all of this . . . our successes and our failures are now another year of the past; it cannot be changed, only built upon, improved upon by those who will succeed us. The Present has been ours for the year of 1962. THE MIDLANDER is a review of what we have done with it. In these pages we will see ourselves as future MTSC students will one day see us . . . only we will not smile at ourselves as perhaps they may. The present goes so rapidly. The pace of a college student ' s life is set at such a rate that the present slips quietly into the past before he has even been aware of the fact that it was here. ' ■ ' fe ? - :8efe4afe ..rXTTi ' .Hjf — 5;-