Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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THROUGH THE The story of a year at college is a difficult thing to tell. It is an elusive mixture of fact and sentiment which means something a little different to each student. To all of us who attended Duke during the year ending June, 1910, many things happened. All of our activities however important or trivial centered themselves around our University. In these passes we hope to perpetuate the memory which all of us will hold dear. Nineteen hundred and forty has been an exceptional year. It marks the beginning of a new era. Great progress during the hundred years of its existence has been made by Duke. The influence of this forward surge of the University in the national community has been felt by all of US privileged to be here. New buildings were constructed and dedicated, their presence constituting a strengthening bulwark to the physical unity of the campus. Prominent additions to the faculty presented greater stimulus to the intellectual activity of the student body, incentives to greater things and finer actions all about us. We must inevitably come to love this place WEST CAMPUS LIBRARY - (C 1 1 trr iM Vr

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DUKE IN 1940

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EAST CAMPUS LIBRARY YEAR AT DUKE which has done so much for us. The traditions of Duke are unique in that they can best be described as forces of accomplishment. We somehow feel that all men who have attended this school must share a keen pleasure in the manifest activity and growth which permeates the entire University. The 1940 Chanticleer accepts with pleasure its obligation of preserving a pic- torial record of the year. It has attempted to gather all sorts of material within the covers of a book which will recall to many of us the things we did while here. We have tried to be informal in the sense of getting a rather intimate pictorial record of our activities. We have attempted a narrative style of presentation, feeling that we are telling a story. We sincerely hope that the following pages will serve their intended function. It was a great vear, and a very entertaining and delightful life while we lived it. Great unrest prevailed throughout the world, the major nations of Europe at war with one another, a general conflagration threatening, yet here at Duke our lives revolved in an academic orbit of intense mutual interest and group undertakings. We joined fraternities, became members of honor societies, studied, read books, en- gaged in athletic contests in which most we were victorious, danced, played, and were happy. Duke University— June, 1940.