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

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amalgamation of all the various ingredients which compose their thousands of contrasting backgrounds. The comparatively short time when their lives merge and run along the same path serves as a vast melting pot which combines their difference in opinions, their diversity in interests, and their variation in perspectives.

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With cooperation, with much deliberation, and with a keen insight into the students ' needs, these blocks have been carefully laid in the foundation of the University in order to serve the student and to aid him in meeting the evergrowing demands of the world in which he will live. The mortar by which they are held together is the determination of the administration, the fac- ulty, and the student body to push ever onward toward new heights and to achieve, finally, the complete educational knowl- edge which is the very essence of successful careers.

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In their four years at the University, all the elemental of these people seem to be cast aside, and all eyes focus toward one ultimate aim---a unified effort to prepare for the future. During the time when they become the life of Ole Miss and Ole Miss becomes their life, the deep chasm between their worlds closes and pulls them closer together, binding them with common ties and mutual respect.