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

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(plilMIBlliyil m : . A worn out pair of tennis shoes dangling lazily in front of the Ad building steps is symbolic of the relaxed moments when we forgot about hundred things we had to do and just enjoyed being young , . . A thousand multi-colored umbrellas defying a cold drizzle at a football game that was our loyalty in action The lights gleaming around the circle in the first soft darkness of twilight . the warm glow of the library ' s lighted windows on a chilly winter evening . . . the quiet walks around the campus . . . the puddles gleaming in the light of the street lamps . . . these were the fleeting moments of beauty and joy that marked the present and that will live in the past. Some may say that these trivialities have no meaning for the future . but they were a very real part of the present . . . and the future has nothing on which to build except the present which we have known . . . at MTSC, 1962.

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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.

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THE FUTURE The Future is such an intangible thing. It is not a record of past accomplishments . . . it is only the sum- mation of hopes for tomorrow, it is not the concrete pro- gress that lies behind . . . it is the dreams which lie ahead. The realizations of the future are the air castles built by a foresighted leader of the past. We do not have to look far to find hope for the future on the MTSC campus. Much of it is already beyond the hoping and dreaming stage . . . much of the future is already taking shape . . . the almost completed girl ' s dorm . the plans for a spacious and modern auditorium and speech building. The Future is all around us . . . in the farsightedness of our administration ... in the long-range goals of the faculty ... in the growing interest of state legislators and educational leaders. The Future is not only around us but in us ... in our own personal goals ... in our hopes for the day when MTSC will be a university ... in our potential for the future. The MTSC that we and generations past have known has been the result of someone ' s dreams . . . some thinker ' s planning. The Middle Tennessee State College that generations yet unborn will know will be the result of our dreams and our thinking . . . and so, it is appropriate that as this GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY draws to a close that we remind our selves to think big . . , aim high . . . and plan well . . . thus we will project ourselves into the MTSC of 1962.