DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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As incongruous as the installation of a night club i n East College was the January arrival of a naval unit in Greencastle, where the largest bodies of water are founcJ on sidewalks and shower room floors. Happily, the two hundred cadets in Lieutenant Dodge s initial brood and the others that arrived in later months were not interested primarily in nautical matters. Theirs was a pre-flight unit. Aside from their marching and cadence counting, so well-known to College Street residents, the pre-flight boys spent long hours in Asbury classrooms. The unit had adopted the Good Ship Asbury ' for academics as it hod Longden and Florence Halls, Locust Manor, and the Delta Chi house for living quarters. Quick in orientating themselves, the boys made friends with both sexes on campus through the medium of teas and dinners. Represented by basketball and swimming teams and a weekly paper, THE HOOSIER SKYWRITER, the pre-flight unit became an integral port of DePauw. 16

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Heavy Was the Impact of War The angry challenge of war evoked a concerted deter- m ination and a broadened outlook from the DePauw student body. A vigorous will to cooperate in bringing peace and a cosmopolitanism that shamed provincialism colored student thought and action. Men anticipating the call to service had an acute consciousness of their obligation to wield Democracy ' s sword and a feeling of their functional status in a world society. The Uni- versity program gave them ample opportunity to prepare themselves and prove their mettle.

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Navy Blue Joins Old Gold