Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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CONTENTS A passing review of the Fall season, the Administra- tion and Faculty constitute the opening pages of this autumn division. You next see the Freshmen, as they join fraternities, clubs, publication staffs and each other to live together a season highlighted by pep-rallies. Homecoming Day celebrations and dances, and football games. The closing days of the Fall saw a week of intensified religious activi- ties. Religious Emphasis Week. Spring activities, retold informally, hinged mainly upon the doings of the graduating Seniors, their most prominent being the presentation of this Howler. However, sports of the flower and sunshine season ( with some unusual snow flurries) — baseball, track, tennis and golf were mingled with the Spring Formals and Exam Week, both in academic and law schools, to conclude a very eventful though typical year at Wake Forest. % Winter, with its brisk gales blowing across the campus, usually sweeps everyone into activities of one kind or another. So it was with the sophomores, as they became upperclassmen and took a more active part in clubs, literary societies, and plays; as a result they were tapped for membership in various honorary fraternities and groups. This sea- son was further highlighted by the activities of the Junior class and varsity basketball games.

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FOREWORD When Wake Forest was founded, a North Carolina newspaper exclaimed: They have kindled a light! Through the years, that light has been nourished and watched with infinite care by the men who have taught here and studied here; a few times it has flickered, but it has never gone out. Slowly, for more than a century, its flood light has pushed the shadows of ignorance back and yet farther back from the regions held captive, until now more students seek that light each year than the campus can admit. Growth has characterized Wake Forest since it began in a village farmhouse somewhere in the Forest of Wake, in 1834. It has drawn many keen and liberal minds to its faculty — bloodless warriors, Gerald Johnson has called them, who fought valiant battles and won mighty victories. The College has drawn men from the city and from the country, men with sharp, inquisitive minds, many of them; they came here as students and learned much; they graduated and served their generations well: doctors, ministers, teachers, journalists, lawyers, merchants, farmers. Wake Forest, even in its early- growth, saw achievement — its own stimulating and progressive effect upon life in the land. So the 1947 Howler takes as its theme both Growth and Achievement. We have seen Wake Forest grow; we see it growing; but glimpses of far greater ac- complishment, academically and spiritually, greet our hopeful view as we look to the future. Out of the chrysalis of our former school even now we can see emerging a greater form, different, yet much the same. Wake Forest is built on the solid foundation of the liberal spirit; with its motto for humanity, it is a spirit which will not tread lightly but will stalk fearlessly to bring illumination to minds and lives where indif- ference and prejudice and ignorance have reigned. Though the rock wall and magnolia trees we know so well will in a few years be exchanged for new gardens and vistas, and the view of the sun sinking behind the golf course for the view of sunset behind the mountains, Wake Forest will really remain the same. As the pages of this Howler turn, you will find what we have been in the year 1947, and much of what we nail be. M : fi • i j( I ' r- ' H ' flr ' - M Mm 5sM| i $i iL .wt One of the new buildings illustrative of the construc- tion work.

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