Millsaps College - Bobashela Yearbook (Jackson, MS)

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Personality of a Population . The varying personality of passing student generations invariably finds its most free expression in Union life. The discipline and formalities of the classroom and office disappear as the Union door is opened and temporarily the student ' s goal becomes the fulfillment of his own rather than the school ' s requirements. The ' 60- ' 61 student population has been a many faceted one. There were in-groups enough for everyone, and each provided a different facet of student personality as reflected in the Union. To some a mealbook will mean Union, for others a mailbox. An agonizing decision over which notebook to buy will be familiar to many and a certain corner booth in the grill will leave most memories for a few. Each person has words or phrases, common in usage and meaning, which to him are special because of the images they evoke of times, places, people, nearly forgotten. Perhaps, years from now, a former Millsaps student may suddenly recall tiny incidents, long buried in the inconsistencies of memory, merely at the mention of Exodus . . . cartridge fountain pens . . . ready- made sandwich . . . thass steak . . . eternal potato chips . ■ ■ boarding plan . . . 10c exchange . . . and so on, ad infinitum. [ 6 ]

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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts — • a vibrant, ever- changing whole transcends the outward appearance of a factual Millsaps College. The parts of the Millsaps whole remain stationary with its dormitories, its organizations, its classrooms, its traditions. The doors of Murrah swing open now as they did a decade or two decades ago, though the student faces which pass through change slightly each year and completely every four. Is Greater Than . . . Tap Day returns, though participants may not, the stairs in Found- ers sag a little more each year as mute testimony to never ending door calls, the grill continues to close at ten, mail still arrives twice a day . . . The whole is stationary — yet the changing student population creates a paradoxically throbbing, shifting quality within that stationary whole. And solely within this quality lies the greatness the bare parts alone could never possess. [ 5 ]

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Reflected in Union