Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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THE UNIVERSITY at WAR r

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I The Spirit of Youth Ten years have come and gone since April 2, 1917, when overnight the sons of Indiana were men. For me the horrors of death, disease, and degradation have faded dim away, leaving only mellow memories of friendship fine, or selflessness, or courage, and of man- liness till now my hate of war is tempered with a shin- ing hope that somehow men may join together once again, one for all, and all for one, in fellowship, think- ing, working, fighting for a better day. It was good and great to be alive with you at Indiana back in ' 17. Letter of James Adams, ' 21, to W. L. B., April, 1927 II The Unchanging Law Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence, Who daily conquers them anew. Goethe, Faust, Act V, Seen III In what Jim Adams and his fellows experienced of life and death five and twenty years ago and in what he wrote of it ten years after, there was and there is the ever-living, ever-conquering Spirit of Youth. In what the aged Goethe heard Faust say in his last hour, there is the never-changing Law of Victorious Life. May that Spirit under guidance of that Law now prevail. William Lowe Bryan President Emeritus lilt . ife

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1 0£5sam THE CHALLENGE- • SL- e,e S £ ' ' « » v,0,5 ' am V-VJVV fc 0 xNtWS December 7 — War has been declared against the United States. Not by words nor legal documents, but by bombs has war come to America. No longer is it undeclared war with all-out aid for everything short of man power. Now it is actual declared war calling for increased man power trained in the Army, Navy, and Marines. Many times have we lived through this moment in our imaginations — this moment when we would read glaring newspaper headlines telling us that our country was in war. But now it is real and we have read the screaming headlines. The campus has changed almost instantly. No longer is it the gay and jovial place it ordinarily is during the Sunday night supper hour. In- stead it has taken on a face of somber grey and a look of dread, coupled with extreme bewilderment and worry. The news is received with a quietness that is grim in its intensity. There are no demonstrations of any sort. Everywhere groups talk excitedly about the sudden turn of events and great is the speculation as to what effect it will have on the University. Almost unanimous is the idea that Japan is in for a sound whipping, and at times there is an air of fatalism or optimism.