Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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This year finds Tufts College still in the transition period between war and peace. Many of the students are veterans who, after their military service, realized the value of a college education. Outside of the maturity evidenced in these however, there are few remaining visible signs of the war that ended four years ago — a few G. I. clothes, occasional military slang, but little else. The veterans are gradually becoming outnumbered. Each fall more students enroll directly from their second¬ ary schools and within a few more years the aged veteran will be an oddity on the campus. But just at present there is a large number of both veterans and non-veterans, and this difference in ages naturally imakes it difficult for the student body to be as unified as it would be under normal condi¬ tions, and has often resulted in numerous controversie s over the subject of school spirit. The veterans have generally shown a disinterest for the rah-rah type of college spirit so often portrayed by Hollywood and the amount of condemnation they have re¬ ceived for this treasonous attitude makes the accusations of Axis Sally pale by com¬ parison. But all signs point to a return to the traditional pre-war campus with all its extra-curricular activities.