Cornell University - Cornellian Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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C'0RlVEZL A7 WAR Cornell University was chartered in 1865, in the last year of the Civil War. In 1868 its first four hundred students rose every morning to reveille and marched to classes in military fashion. Cornellians served in the Spanish- American War in 1898, and in the last World War, Cornell has always had a compulsory Reserve Officers Training Program. To Cornell, war is not new. The University was born in the shadow of one war and gave her sons to two that followed. Now has come a fourth generation of Cornellians and a fourth war. This year has been one of change, of confusion, of loss, and of accomplish- ment. Some of the fun and freedom of college life has been scrapped for the duration. And more will go. Education has become increasingly accelerated and purposeful. Cornell, like other American colleges and universities, must train officers for the armed services and civilian experts for the home front. Physical training has become essential. There are more men marching on the Hill than ever before-men in Army khaki and men in Navy blue. lt was essentially a peacetime way of living that students left behind them at the end of last spring. Then began a period of transition, a year in which Cornell has seen the war brought closer, and closer. At the beginning of the 1942-43 college year the University and the Students, the R.O.T.C., and the Navy at Cornell showed these changes- changes which were to continue to an extent that no one might foresee.