Mills College - Mills Crest Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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to contribute personally to the creative forces v hich help people to live together in common un- derstanding of cultural backgrounds. The woman of today must be competent, and able to live in cooperation with those around her. After four years at a college rich v»rith material for experimentation in groups, the human per- sonality cannot help but expand, enlightened v»rifh insight, to be a useful contributor in some field, in the present age. Madeleine Ebbesen

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FOREWORD We take for our theme this year. Time, o transitional period of four years in which we plot our course, guided from green eagerness to mature confident direction. Our college. Mills, is well known as a center where one studies the humanities and finds abun- dant opportunity for self-expression. The individual has the opportunity to prove herself worthy of four years of education at college— not a frivolous, finishing up process— a preparation for life, but a necessary phase of life, in order to understand the problems of living, and to be able

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DED As a man who has given the world a richer experience through music, Darius Milhaud, French com- poser, is one of the most completely natural and unassuming personalities of the artistic society. He seems to have an unending flow of ideas. No form nor dimension is too small or too large to attract his interest. His style is predominantly melodic, ranging from jazz to opera. America would like to claim him as an integral part of her culture.