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OXFORD, Miss. — Is it a fair assessment that when this country had its beginnings that college towns sprang up where there was no cost for the land and that with agriculture being prominent in the curriculum, that land was needed for the ag school to grow and farm for teaching purposes and to provide food for the table?
There has always been a strong bent for liberal arts and science; medicine and engineering.
Whatever, the evolution of the development of our institutions of higher education brought about, for the most part, cozy oases, nestled into the landscape.
Oxford, Mississippi is one of them. Like Athens, Georgia; Eugene, Oregon; Auburn and Tuscaloosa, Alabama; College Station, Texas; Iowa City, Iowa; Clemson, South Carolina, and Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Cutting edge research takes place in these acclaimed institutions. Games are played there, too, such as college football. It is not uncommon for a university to turn out Rhodes scholars as well as Heisman trophy winners.
Ole Miss, once a dominant power in the Southeastern Conference, has not enjoyed the championship success that they became accustomed to when Johnny Vaught was their coach.
Lane Kiffin has given them reason to be optimistic in the last couple of years. He has made a living via the transfer portal. That may or may not be the best route to success, but it seems to be working for the current coach.
Not every hometown hero lives out his life where he was a Saturday star. Jake Gibbs is one who did. You may see him about town doing as all locals do. Shop for groceries, fill up the car with gas and dine out at a familiar restaurant.
Jake can be seen at Ole Miss football, basketball and baseball games. He settled in Oxford for that laidback lifestyle and would not trade it for any locale, anywhere.
He made All-America in both football and baseball, becoming a…
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Author : Athens Banner-Herald
Publish date : 2024-11-07 09:06:23
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