Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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ECAUSE OF THE ACTIVE FUNCTIONING OF TWO VI- TAL ORGANS, DUKE HAS BECOME BOTH A RE- nowned center for the acquiring of academic knowledge and a community for the building and devel- oping of character. Duke is not a mere mass of stone, classrooms, and shelves of books. It is a living, breathing organism with the students as its heart and the administration as its brain. It is a school of preparation for entrance into the intellectual and social world, a world today in demand of the utmost effort of everyone. The students share in making up the college community and giving their interests and enthusiasm to it. Incoming freshmen gaze with awe at the orderly-arranged iDuildings and the confusing sea of new faces. As sophomores the awe is replaced by a feeling of loyalty for a community which has accepted them. As Juniors, the students begin to look toward graduation. This year is vital to them, because, in it, they try to fulfill all their ambitions and to attain high honors which will inscribe their names on the pages of Duke history. Senior year finally arrives and is completed all too soon. As seniors, the future is opening wide its doors, and the dignified graduate is prepared to enter the world with all the poise and assurance he has gained in four years. He is able to face that future mentally, physically, and spiritually. The strong foundation, the backbone of the college is its administration. These men and women are responsible for the high and distinguished position which Duke University holds in the educational world. They shape their policies to benefit us in every way, that we may graduate as better men and women, better citizens. The students and the- administration arc, in themselves, Duke University. Such an integrated whole cannot fail to produce all that is fine in life and thought and character. The years spent here, although not completed by many of the boys entering the Services, will ever be remembered as some of the hap- piest and most fruitful in the lives of its students.