Volume 17, Issue 3 (1949)
Evening Incident
Patty Lewis
A Caress for Marie
Kenneth Hopkins
Saturday Afternoon
Louise Grigsby
Differentiation Between Sarcasm and Cynicism
Barbara Ziegler
The Byronic Hero
Jean Ann Bates
London Epitaph
Barbara Sims
A Pair of Shoes
Ann Bailey
Long, Long Ago
Forrest A. Dunderman
The Bridge
Alice Greene
An Artificial Plague
Paul Ross
My Misfortunes
John S. Glassford
The Acceleration of American Life
Alice Aldrich
My Favorite Instructor
Ross Copeland
On Attending College and Living at Home
Sherry A. Rash
Life Without Principle
James Cone
Study of a "Character"
Walter O. Carter
Prayer at Dawn
Helen M. Glende
Give Thanks for Thoreau
Joyce Barnard
A Short Story Interpretation
Robert Malsberry
Twenty-five Pounds of Dog Food for a Saint Bernard
Marmi Kingsbury
The Working Slave
William G. Clark
What is Beauty?
Marthella Louise Davis
The Ideal Husband
Rosalind Intrater
A Flirtation
Judy Job
Home on the Range
Roger K. Kramer
A Sundae Stroll
Ronald Trent

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