Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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Slant Walk cmd new Miamians. Freshmen girls meet and mix. A spot for meeting as well as eating.

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N NJ' ,, rash! x ,I A TO A WARTIME MIAMI A CHANGED MIAMI, WE DEDICATE TI-IIS BOOK O LONGER is Miami the casual, carefree, isolated place we knew three years ago. Miami has changed and we have changed with it. Pearl Harbor, the altered tempo as male students were called to the services, and the arrival of large military units to take up their station here completed 'the transition from the old Miami to the Miami at war. Miami in wartime is a Miami closer to reality. Many of the superficialities we believed in have been discarded. No longer does our life center about the latest records, the Saturday night var- sities, the newest of the styles. Our snug, comfortable playground detached from actuality has vanished. Our outlook has left the narrow limits of Oxford behind, and we have identified ourselves with our friends and classmates who have gone to remote sections of the world.

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Here it is impossible to forget the war. Our daily civilian world touches and mingles with the world of the military. We are constantly reminded by the roar of the V-5 training planes, the hup-2-3-4 of the naval marching cadences, and the roll of the drums as the sailors swing past in review. These representatives of our armed forces have come to us from civilian life. A short while ago many of them were attending school, others were intent upon their careers. All have postponed their plans, given up those little liberties and licenses we still enioy today. Now a part of a great Navy, they are subject to military discipline and find them- selves here to learn those skills which will make them more valuable to their country. For some of them the comparative inactivity of the academic world may seem unrelated to the war, but the government, with a long range plan, has seen the necessity of edu- cated personnel for an efficient and integ- rated military organization. We in civilian life also have felt a restlessness, a desire to participate actively in the war. But education has been our choice. The ma- terials of war and death-guns, ammunition, planes, and tanks-are being weighed in the balance against the instruments of education and understanding which will forge our out- Civilian classes are becoming a woman's world. New and old Miami spirit.