Mississippi College - Tribesman Yearbook (Clinton, MS)

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WHAT WE REMEMBER The cashier at the end of the registration line, the sleepless night before a major exam, the poor score on a daily quiz these are only a sampling of the crisis situations that cause any college student to question the wisdom of continuing his education. Mississippi College students get to confront these same problems, along with a few others peculiar to their institution, such as sneaking a girl back into the dormitory after curfew or computing how many chapel cuts can still be used. Probably no one has spent more than a semester at Miss. College without watching grades plummet, boyfriends or girlfriends depart or funds evaporate. Fortunately no one s college experience is composed solely of difficult circumstances, and in all probability few are even dominated by them. The triumph of receiving a high mark on a term paper that cost many hours of work, the exultation of participating in a rush production that came out just right, the thrill of watching the football team clinch its first conference championship-these experiences provide the framework over which the fragile fabric of good memories can be stretched. For the numerous Miss. College graduates who will establish their homes many miles from Clinton, these memories will fall away like autumn leaves caught in a winter wind. For others that remain in the area, remi- niscences will become mired in the ooze of familiarity. Hopefully, one day these alumni will get to return to the campus and one more glimpse of Nellie Bell telling the wrong time from her perch on Nelson Hall will open the floodgates of recollection. Unfortunately, it will not be until far away time that most alumni will look back to their college stage and realize that it was a time when they did not need to recall a good memory, for they were living one and just did not know it. How much better it would have been if they could have come to this realization when the people that fashioned that memory were still around. TABLE CONTENTS Events Organizations Administration 3