Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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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.

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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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We present to you, the Student Body, this, the 1940 Chanticleer. For nine months we have photo- graphed, written, rephotographed and rewritten, in .in effort to preserve for you, through the media of pictures and type, the story of a year at Duke. To us the events of this particular year are unique. Some have seemed important, some of only passing value, but the joys and sorrows we experienced ran never be relived except in our memories. We want you to see this year in retrospect, not as a mere record of events, but as a warm and living record of a most important period in our lives. With this in mind, we present the information and pictures that we think will truthfully represent col- lege life from the student ' s point of view. Our story is told in as informal a manner as we have been able to tell it, for we believe that only in this way can the real spirit and atmosphere of our school be shown. For our theme — if theme there is — we have chosen this year at Duke. Our sincere aim has been to make this a student ' s book — one that each of you can feel is truly representative and cosmopolitan. As the time of its appearance draws near, we of the staff are filled with trepidation. While all through the year we have wanted to surpass our predecessors. Now, if in your opinion we have been able to maintain the already high standard set by previous CHANTICLEERS, then we arc happy. It is our sincere hope that you will get the enjoyment from it that we have worked for, and that we have gotten from our work.