Michigan State University - Red Cedar Log Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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It Started at Pearl Harbor . . . ' % • 1 wBI

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y iit this year was only the end of the beginning of changes which come under the lash of Mars. That what you get from your college experience is in direct ratio to what you put into it. On and off campus one event followed upon another with conglomerate rapidity . . . rationing ... in ' numerable ' lasts for the duration ... no traditional Christmas lights on the college evergreen . . . Roosevelt and Churchill met at Casablanca as Spartans defied the blustering cold of winter . . . the Russians amazed the world . . . the influx of khaki and the exit of familiar college atmosphere.

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J Michigan State in a World at War The clash and clatter of war reverberated over the Land of the Red Cedar during the past year. And it was apparent that we were up against the hard, blunt facts of war and the grim necessity of winning it. With untold millions to be in the armed services by 1943, the odds were all in favor of many Spartans being a cipher in that sum. The frills of a peacetime campus were eliminated . . . war courses were added . . . physical education emphasized . . . reserve programs instigated . . . rumors became everyday breakfast talk, causing continual uncertainty and confusion . . . women began to assume the responsibili- ties formerly held by men . . . over $6,500 was invested in bonds and stamps at the upper deck bond booth in the Union . . . term formals were restricted . . . the Army took over Wells hall in September, Mason and Abbot halls and the fraternity houses the first of Spring term, as the E.R.C. left to help speed the knockout blow by striking at the nerve centers of aggression all over the world.