Boutwell talks about her lack of preparation before attending the college, campus life during the Depression, and the curriculum and traditions. She talks about Chancellor Walter Clinton Jackson and his daughter, who was her roommate. She describes the faculty and administrators who influenced her, her perception of the decline of academic rigor during the sixties and seventies and the Sedalia Singers, an African-American group who performed at Woman's College. Subjects: Small classes, teas and tea parties, Freshman Week, the Secretarial Administration courses, being on an all girl campus, Chancellor Jackson, President Frank Porter Graham, attending chapel, having only completed the eleventh grade and feeling that she had a few things missing from her education when she came to the campus in 1934.