University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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They got to rest at registration? The square came to life at the Wednesday night Welcome Rebel party as we rocked to the music of Bill Justice.

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The year began one dismal Sunday afternoon as the freshman swarmed over the campus. It began against an excited background of shaved heads, beanies, and pep rallies. As orientation week progressed and the freshmen spent hours in the library taking seemingly useless, tedious tests, the excitement ended. . The campus took on a more normal com- plexion with the more or less willing return of the upperclassmen. Classes began and were then forgotten in the confusion of rush week. Football, homecoming, and Dixie Week came in quick succession. Christmas vacation brought rest, parties, and the Sugar Bowl; then final exams, term grades and resolutions to work harder next semester. Second semester meant basketball, Rebelee, baseball, spring formals, elections, sing-song, fret sweethearts, and finally graduation. That was the year, and this is its record.

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Freshly-shaved bald heads, trailers and trunks full of clothes, bewildered students, anxous parents all were unmistakably and painfully evident on the first day back at school. Freshmen, faced with a strange room- mate, orientation, their first registration, and rush, hardly had time to become excited about their new experinece because of that ugly little creature called fear gnawing in their stomachs. While, at the same time, upperclassmen, seemed completely unmoved by the whole situation. But everyone soon began to feel at home at their home away from home. The Welcome Rebel dance on the downtown square in Oxford, with Rebel yells led by the cheerleaders, the parade downtown, and Bill Justice providing the music, assured the newcomers that they had little to fear at Ole Miss. Freshman orientation—but why is it that the hallowed Ole Miss instilled by the Cardinal Club have to be covered with a beanie? Who says girls at Ole Miss have a lot of clothes? The girls came. Chief Tatum and Mother got the freshman girls settled.