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

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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;-

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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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The things of the present will remain in a large degree. The broad aims of a college education will be absorbed into our philosophy, our way of thinking, our goals and our aims. Much of the present will mould us for the future. The acquired knowledge of four years at MTSC will become a part of us, an integral aspect of the way we think . . . but the things we will remember . . . the things that will one day be most dear , . . are the little things . . . the delightful moments of fun that were squeezed in between the hours of class and study . . . the friends we made . . . the people we admired . . . the things we did . . . these things are a part of the present and to a great extent they will shape and mould us for tomorrow. Our laughter of the present will help us keep our power to think straight in the future . our loyalties of the present will teach us responsibilities for tomorrow . . . our moments of relaxed existence at MTSC in the present will prepare us for the long hard pull ahead . . . the little moments of beauty and joy which we have learned to hold onto in the present will help us to learn that all the joy we can know in the future will be based on a sum total of little moments of pleasure and content- ment . . These aspects of student life at MTSC are reflected in a hundred different ways in every day of the present. Our laughter in the present rang out about a hundred dif ferent things . . the sly smile at the mid-winter formal that seems to ask, Do tjou know where the totem pole is? The rollicking frolic in the snow . . . the polite smiles of the hundred and one receiving lines in which we stood.