Auburn University - Glomerata Yearbook (Auburn, AL)

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OFTEN AS BEFORE . . . AND. TO ALL THIS THERE WAS ADDED THE ARRAY OF NEW THINGS THAT HAD NEVER BEFORE BEEN APART OF AUBURN... THE VERY OPENING DATE OF SCHOOL WAS NEW THIS YEAR. SO WERE THE CURRICULA WE REGISTERED FOR . . . NEW GRADING SCALES NEW SOCIAL CALENDARS- NEW PHYSICAL TRAINING PROGRAMS -NEW EMPHASIS ON MILITARY NEW. NEW. NEW, UNTIL THAT WORD SEEMED TO PREFACE EVERYTHING WE FACED BECAUSE THE COLLEGE WAS ANSWERING A DEMAND FOR SPEED ... AND THROUGH THE SHORTENED YEAR THERE WERE SPECIAL DAYS THAT WILL BE REMEMBERED. DAYS THAT MARKED A SPECIAL YEAR AND SET IT APART FROM THE OTHERS. SOME WERE DAYS OF CELEBRATION. BUT MOST WERE DAYS THAT SOBERED US AND GAVE MEANING TO THE REST OF YEAR AS EACH DAY PASSED WE REALIZED MORE COMPLETELY WHAT WE WOULD SOON BE LOSING AND WE WERE MORE DETERMINED TO ENJOY WHAT TIME WAS LEFT AT AUBURN . . . RECALL THOSE DAYS AND YOU HAVE MUCH OF THE PATTERN OF THE YEAR THE DAY COLLEGE OPENED IN JUNE—THE DAY CONGRESS VOTED TO DRAFT THE EIGHTEEN AND NINETEEN YEAR OLDS THE DAY WE REGISTERED FOR SELECTIVE SERVICE THE DAY WE SIGNED OUR APPLICATIONS FOR COMMISSIONS—THE DAY OF THE GEORGIA GAME-THE DAY THE RESERVE PROGRAMS WERE CLOSED HOMECOMING AND THE DAY WE WERE ALL ASSEMBLED IN THE STADIUM TO HEAR THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT R.O.T.C. AND ENLISTED RESERVE WERE TO BE CALLED TO ACTIVE DUTY . . . ALL THOSE DAYS AND ALL THE ACTIVITIES THAT INTERVENED WENT INTO ANOTHER YEAR AT AUBURN. AND ALL THE SPIRIT THAT IS ALWAYS AUBURN AND THE NEW SPIRIT THAT CAME OF UNCERTAINTY ALL THAT IS WHAT IS MEANT BY '’A YEAR AT AUBURN . . .