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

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FORMED THE NUCLEUS From Fall registration to spring finals, campus life re- volved around the dormitories. From rooms always too hot or too cold, students made their way to the cafeteria for endless varieties of hamburger, and then to classes or to the library. At night the dormitories were scenes of painstaking preparation for big dates and later for post-date comparison and criticism. The rooms may have been crowded, and the vending machines may have worked only at times; but the dormitories were lived in, and they are remembered. Pack upon pack of cigarettes are smoked each day as boys discuss the problems of the world in their daily bull sessions. The soft music played by the new music system that has been stalled has a very good effect, but even good music is not enough to soothe one after the effects of a Mexican Meat Stick. The selection of which pastry with which to finish the meal and stave off indigestion is a serious matter.

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DORMITORIES The rumbling of the coke machines is one of the constant sounds of dormitory life. There is also the occasional thud as the poor machine receives a kick in its vitals for the failure to disgorge a coke. The most depressing place in the world is the cafeteria in the morning for breakfast; and yet the atmosphere and the food proves with the other meals. Perhaps it is not the cafeteria so much that is depressing in the mornings as it is just mornings in general! Everyone pitches in to help when one of their number is fortunate enough to be able to go to a big formal. Everything from hoops to the dresses themselves are borrowed as each girl tries never to be seen in the same dress twice.

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The silence of a room in which boys are studying is broken only by the clatter of a typewriter. This is the sort of thing that breaks up roommates and causes life-long enemies. TWO STUDENTS PER ROOM, PLUS oNE The walls of the girls ' dormitories hide many mysteries, the secrets of which the men are better off not knowing—as this picture so vividly shows.