Wofford College - Bohemian Yearbook (Spartanburg, SC)

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WOFFORD COLLEOE LIBRARY THE SOME FIVE HUNDRED STUDENTS OF WOFFORD COLLEGE AT SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, TAKE PLEASURE IN PRESENTING THE RECORD OF THEIR LIVES AND ACTIVITIES IN THE 1942 COPYRIGHT BY GEORGE BEACH Editor JOHN BALLENGER Business Manager

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THE THE TIMES... Viewed from any standpoint, our times are among the most wacky that people have gone through during the course of many centuries. Wars are raging over much of the world ' s land, far out to sea, and high in the air, while those nations not in war are quaking with fear or itching for their chance at revenge. Within continents and nations, class strife, suspicion, fear and hatred simmer and boil over by turns. Quacks of all sorts flourish on the general instability of the times. People are nearly all jittery, and some crackpots are saying it is the end of man ' s world. Although steadier people know that life will go on somehow, even they admit that we are going to face revolutionary changes. No one can be sure where the dark forces might lead. But one great nation, the United States, has not blacked out its hopes for a decent society. Its colleges continue to absorb new freshmen and to try to train students in char- acter and clear thinking. These pages will suggest something of the vitality, sound teaching, and downright fun to be found in small United States liberal arts colleges — of which Wofford is truly repre- sentative — and also something of the breath-taking cruelty and lightning metamorphosis that is taking place in the larger world of action and events. We will try to show that the microcosm of college coalesces into the macrocosm of adult life. This linkage between the academic world and the adult is not at all mechanical and spasmodic, but organic, and continuous. Although a few college occupations are shel- tered and cloistered, they have their bearing on current happenings, and so the life of college is a pulsing part of life itself. T ie time is out of joint.