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

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The campus beautiful, an image of the college itself . , Viewing it is like viewing a well-loved face that is ever changing . . . A lingering look from the lobby of the modern library across the grassy expanse of the circle . . . past the traditional design of the Language Arts building . . . To the raw muddy cuts of Lyon Hall where a new dor- mitory shyly rises, almost embarrassed by the brashness of its newness that is a sharp contrast to the serenity of a campus that has seen Five GOLDEN decades slip quietly by . . . Only a look across the MTSC campus and one is aware of the Past . . . and the Present . . . and the Future. The old Ad building, a nostalgic reminder of the past, the early days of struggle to survive, . . . the early days when MTSC was only another ungainly addition to the rash of Normal Schools that were spring- ing up . . . when no one was really concerned about her future except those who had effected her founding. The new Fine Arts building . . . symbolic of the pro- gress that has made MTSC capable of rendering valuable service to those seeking knowledge . . . The new addition to Lyon Hall . . . representing the continuing growth . , . the ever increasing desire to make Middle Tennessee State College better . . . capable of rendering greater service . . . capable of being a greater institution. Or

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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.