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Ole Miss Students gather at the Library Sports Bar on any given weekend to hear the lovable DJ Mario utter those three words, Are you ready? On Saturdays in the fall, students, alumni, and devoted fans flock to the Grove in dresses and suits to support our football team in style. During campaign days, young men and women stand on street corners and urge fellow students to vote for their friends for titles such as Colonel Reb and Miss Ole Miss. But why do we do these things? Where do these traditions come from? In a campus as history-soaked as Ole Miss, it ' s no wonder that everywhere we turn there is a tradition staring us in the face. Even this yearbook that you hold in your hands started the biggest tradition that our school has - the name Ole Miss. When the yearbook first got its start in ' 897, our fledgling school was only known as the Jniversity of Mississippi. The yearbook staff then held a contest to name the publication and Elma Meek suggested the name Ole Miss in reference to the lady of the house in pre-Civil War days. Soon, the affectionate term Ole Miss became the name for the university as well. Although some debate the political correctness of this term, no one can argue that it ' s a term of respect and dignity. Every student that goes to Ole Miss knows the cheer Hotty Toddy. Some of us know it even better than we know our ABC ' s, having learned it well before we could read or write. An early version of it appeared in the November 19, 1926 issueof TheMississippian . It read Heighty! Tighty! Gosh A Mighty! Who in the h -I are we? Rim! Ram! Flim! Flam! Ole Miss, ByD-n. From these humble beginnings, the cheer that is ingrained in our hearts and memories was born. Before 1929, there was no such thing as Miss Ole Miss until Charlsie Elizabeth Anderson was named as the first. Her male counterpart, Colonel Reb, didn ' t come along until 1940 when jfc? I ei r cqc the ole mis
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