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Chapter I This is a story of Wesleyan, a story of a small group of people living in the truest American ' way. Beyond that lull and across the water there were battlefronts burning blood like ml. Here, too, there were battle- fronts. Here heroes fought long, quiet wars to maintain those things for which the soldiers die. Students they are called — inadequately. Truly, they are guards. As ' wardens they watched through day and night to see that none of the American freedoms might disappear. Through the telescopes of education they kept their eyes on the institu- tions that are good. For want of praise, at times, they nearly fainted . This is a silent tear — unpublished and unsung, fought without a decla- ration and lasting beyond an armis- tice. That tomorrow might be a fit place in which to live when today is done, they fire with all their courage and charge with all their daring. They came to be teachers, doctors, nurses; lawyers, merchants, cooks; chemists, statesmen, wives; sailors, churchmen, and writers. They came to live and work and play together 1
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REGISTERING WITH STEELE: M I i don, B. Lawson. that they might learn to live and work and play together with all the world tomorrow. They came. They took up their books, heir test tubes, their pens, and began to work. They retook old f runts and regained lost grounds. Here is a story of a Wesley an year. It teas a great year but little greater than any other. The problem were different, perhaps, but the spirit was the same. There were comedies and tragedies, happiness and sad- ness, play and work. Then, too, there was a little more seriousness. The war railed here, and there had to be answers. And this is how it hap- pened: On September 1 1, 1942, freshmen began to appear on the campus. In- quisitive, curious, and a bit fright- ened at the experience, they gathered together — changing but slowly from individuals to a group. Student Union guides met them at the buses and trains, and counselors welcomed them to the campus. Feeling at home, however, proved to he not so much a matter of friendship and advice as a matter of time. It was a busy week. There were examinations, and what examinations — that tested every- thing from what one knew down to one ' s vocabulary. And there was A VISIT WITH VYLESWORTH: K P..-.- Mout. A Mo i-. Wood. - dl, D.
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