Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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conienTS COLLEGE CLASSES MILITARY BEAUTIES ATHLETICS FRATERNITIES ORGANIZATIONS

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AND T H I R TY EIGHT. YEARBOOK ISSUED BY THE STUDENTS OF MISSISSIPP STATE COLLEGE, LOCATED AT STATE COLLEGE, MISSISSIPPI W. C. WASHBURN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF • L. O. RUCKER, JR BUSINESS MANAGER

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I T IS A STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL SECTION of MISSISSIPPI, THIS VAST DELTA COUNTRY LYING IN A STATE STEEPED IN THE TRADITIONS OF THE OLD SOUTH. IT APTLY REFLECTS THE AGE-OLD WISDOM AND LIMITLESS POWER OF THE MIGHTY, MYSTERY-SWATHED RIVER WHICH GAVE IT BIRTH, AS IT LAZILY WENDED ITS TORTUOUS JOURNEY TO THE SEA. DARKIES SING, LAUGH, LOVE AND HATE, AND DIE WITHIN ITS BOUNDARIES, AS IN- SEPARABLE FROM THE SOIL AS IS THE DELTA IT- SELF, FROM ITS ANCIENT HERITAGE OF ROMAN- TIC LEGEND. VAST, INSPIRING, SOULFUL IN ITS MEMORIES, POSSESSING ALL THE GRANDEUR OF THE NATURE IT EMBODIES— LIKE A PLANT CEN- TURIES OLD, BLOSSOMING IN ITS OWN REFLECTED FRAGRANCE AND BEAUTY. Upper left: Loading cotton. Center: Mississippi River steann- beat. Lower: Ready for the gin. Upper right: Working in the fields. Center: Negro baptizing cere- mony. Lower: Ole man river. Below: An ex-slave of the pre- war period. — CmM m r? wwnwnonniM iiii