Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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J OR HIS TOLERANT WISDOM, HIS SUPERIOR COMMON SENSE, AND HIS NEVER-FAILING EN- ERGY IN ESTABLISHING AN UNPRECEDENTED ENROLLMENT AT MISSISSIPPI STATE, AND IN MA- TERIALLY INCREASING THE WEALTH AND POS- SESSIONS OF THE SCHOOL, IT IS WITH SINCERE APPRECIATION AND HEARTFELT GRATITUDE THAT WE DEDICATE THIS, THE THIRTY-FOURTH VOLUME OF THE REVEILLE TO OUR PRESIDENT, DR. GEORGE DUKE HUMPHREY.

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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

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DOCTOR G. D. HUMPHREY