Volume 17, Issue 2 (1949)
"Sorry, Friend, I Didn't See Ya Standin' There"
Chester Perkins
Fenner Street
Patrick J. Mahoney III
To Jonathan Swift
Michael Moran
Oh My Darling
William Griffith
Love's Miracle
Don Peterson
An Appreciative Study of a Play of Mode
Donald Barnes
Three Poems
Frances King
Pink Frosting
Sharon Collins
"Shush,"-The New Password
Kenneth Hopkins
The Understandenest Woman
Emmett McGinley
It Ain't Etiquette
Forrest A. Dunderman
The Toy Box
Alice Aldrich
The Importance of Words
Barbara Dunham
Realizing the Meaning of Integrity
Francis H. Balcom
Impressions of Keats
Jack Albertson
Adventure on Sunday
Roger Mays
What Is Wrong With Our Movies?
Lois M. Peeler
It's Been Lovely, But-
Joe Owens
The Meaning of Democracy
Shirley Stillwell
Why You Should Have a Dictionary
Richard Orman
The Luxury of Idleness
Catherine Cowan
Idler Meets Mr. Machine-Man
Paul Ross
A Characterization of Amarantha
Robert Malsberry
About "An Apology for Idlers"
Barbara J. Fisher

MSS Staff
Editor-in-Chief: Frank Slupesky
Assistant Editor: Diana Harvey
Poetry Editors:
Frances KingWilliam Griffith
Copyreading Editors:
Joan OwensBarbara Sims
Virginia Anderson
Art Editors:
Sharon CollinsJustyn Blackwell
Exchange Editor:
Herman WichserSenior Literary Editors:
Donald BarnesRoger Chittick
Richard Greene
Helen Hodges
Stanley Levine
Patty Lewis
Patrick Mahoney
John Miller
Vaughn Overstreet
Clyde Steckle
Marge Stuhldreher
Jody Thomas
Freshman Literary Editors:
Patricia LockeBertrand Hallin
John Harbor
Carol Beane
Ann Fuller
Kathleen Ryan
Marilyn Gibson
Jody Job
William Bosson
Patricia Wefler
E. R. Dunbar
Sherry Ann Rash
Susan Dunlap
J. R. Harrell
Jack Albertson
Francis Balcom
Marga Carter
Richard Peterson