University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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A nd too, one sees the personalities that made life on the Missis- sippi romantic and adventurous. Pioneers, steamboat pilots, bandits that hid in riverside caves during the day and raided boats at night, gamblers that made a living ojjf the gullible passengers on the boats, and women who had scruples against nothing but short cash and empty stomachs. One does not dare forget them, for they were the original citizens of Mississippi. Ole Miss also brings back visions: Young sons of rich plantation owners, coming to the University to get book-larningv, slaves shin- ing their masters, shoes and carrying their books to class, later, these same happy, lazy students marching away from the Lyceum, calling themselves the University Greysn and fighting a war which they pre- ferred to call The War Between the States , the Lyceum being used as a hospital, some of the boys returning, this time without their slaves and with much less money, coming to school to get enough edu-

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One sees the a- - Higgs t5 of the land using it as a vast W tran o w s' system, gag sees them crossing the river for the .0 e as they move westward away from the reach of the white X civilization. He sees the white man poling his way down on a flat oat, and later on in small, crudely built steamboats, which become bigger and better until they are the masters of the river that once held the canoes of the red man at its mercy. After being mas- X - XX tered, the river is harnessed g great steel spans are thrown across it X X to support the railroads and highways that rob the river of its trans- f-'x portation monopoly, and monstrous m t are thrown up i V along its banks---levees that stop the annual i 01 river as it Igkffd-Y-,Y spreads across the bottom-land, being at once both v de- ,- if- M... ,. -ff structive. J my I: fyigyv , , , 4 A fr! 'f5f.,,QCz'l' kit, 6 , I.gU.gL'1I ,t Ol ? 'uf i ,A . ,'-..., M ' ,. Q - , 51A ,, I .fc MMM hh I ,g, rihHnl'h' .-felhf - ' L'4fl- -' lm Mm if silfllxutxm rc lm itil tj, ,g rm E -,,T?f,-awiig gp -nqyvvmffv- ,i l lx .. . lf. -...w..,.,-.,.m...,m,.,f w,,...,. WIPTW gm ' . il 'Niger xi' 'w: .f ,L hh, n xx L ,..,.,y39gy-... - 0 ' i:'xxi'3't-'Q. 'U l '-4 ' 'L-5: 'QQ' N ' Nvxxx' ' Ag. Milf? fr ,, ....... ,- ,..' ff, ' , '-,ruff , ,, iq ',f W' if! flag' L . I my 'Am-:Y-i?i4fQ!' ,.l. - .pig ,.. if . ww- y n ., s. . :fr . ,- . l

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