Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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THE LI (I i H. A. B. JONES-QUARTEY, Editor

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R E W O R F O FOUR years ago when we first entered college, all was quiet on the American front. There was war in Asia, and rumors of wars in Europe; but America was not concerned with foreign wars, and so we went merrily on our isolationist way, intensely occupied in making money, enjoying ourselves, and traveling in circles from nowhere to nowhere -but fast! • By the time we were beginning our final year, however, actual war had come to the whole of Europe and the Orient, and was daily assuming the character and the proportions of a truly described Second World War. Just six months ago, in spite of our vociferous isolationists and optimists, we found ourselves suddenly, unexpectedly, shockingly all in on the war and all out for national defense, our confidence in a spontaneously generated security tragically and irrevocably shattered at Pearl Harbor. Nevertheless, we of the Class of '42, the first War Class of the second World War, leave Lincoln finally in high hope and unyielding optimism, believing implicitly in the destined victory of Right over mere Might, and in a Day- of-Justice to come for all men in every land. We refuse to give up hope of a future world-readjustment based upon common humanity, well knowing that the moment men lose hope entirely, from that very moment they cease to live and begin merely to exist.