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MILITARY ■■ I ir t rirnins n ' turnitift homo for an rdttrniinu. rs H ' t itilly from I or ICar II. uifluvnrt ' il stuflrnt iillitiiiivs ami so- hrrtul llti ' r iffi ;« . ' liiCf did Ihar no iroudev - tubrnts! from antiniutp Dunn ; the ycmrs aniund 1920 Mudrnts were in culir til Mqviirc knowledge. c ilturc. «arus. They felt arvl were erKinirji ;e(i by «xiety xo feel ifut Jhc tud not « bejiun to live, that teal life «xiuU begin ftcr gradu tKm TJicy wxirricd litik- about tiukiiig a living; when real life heipin. tidixamn. urging y ua|( peijple to f t to lollege. autired them, quoting stjtisticv fh« the would then earn triore tnnnc) than p T«.in5 without a college cdukatioft Students accepted ilut fact contplakentl). They had. a« a KaimiH cdjtur pot It. mo»e than an rven chance The) therefore auutncd a bearing; of u-lt lonfidetKr. were not up«ci or confufrd and not bent on attertiny their iitdependence They conformed unque%noninj(iy to tocteiy s regubtl In and tntiratity 111. . a.r.ii . ..tl.J Wai 1. Ill ihc ' X Stmtmti editor, briviloi with war tKws and pfii liJ colutnns were demoted to Mustard Gas ai d S iulf, ' such interest passed with the end of the war rrtiors wxindered why students in So«th Amcricj I . rope were thoughtful abotst and active in jiku; ■ pctially political affairs and students in the ' ••itcs seldom venmred. physically and intellcttualU ■! f campus It ti¥»k X ' orkl X ' ir II ami the Ki rca: icmam Wars, the invention of the A aitd H bomlv ■Air mtvvles. prolonged fear of rjommunLsm and imme ■Ai fldw»de communication to brtn students in the I n Mrc to their present concern about life and society . - fid even ts and conditioiL NX ' ar v«cTan returning home for an editcarion. espcciall ru m X ' i rld X ' ar II. influenced srudenc attitudes and - Sctevl the campts They freed the campus of traditMin« ;kc freshmen wearing green cap like many hitlicrt iiiLiified aiki unimportant trailitioav Tl e veterans wtrre i.Jcf persons They were men and women of a certain Mfi! expcrietxe To them education was all-imporunt itic) had no time for foolishness, even for mosr stxial •trivitics. TraditHins however silly or unimportant die hjrd: we find in 7 ' Kjimim as late as l ' M8 writing jNuit lack of loyalty to the L ' niversjty as shown in cheering at games, about littering the lawas with coke botiUrs. The Great Depression of 1929 and jears of tlic catl) 19K)$ came as a shock to students, as to people generally It made aitciKiing college financially difficult. It forced many, nuny snidcnts to work for their expenses or ptui « f them, and such wxirk trade going to college riHire ot a reality than it had formerly been taken to be. The ! mating dnire of students was for securirv Like v • in general, they were frightetwd Oiocern about m • a living after graduatNin ran «tn ng. Some students to feel that society owed tlicm a living All student. coj tied themselves with little veil -con fidencc. An alunuiusi of the i ' iO s. s -aking at a Scboi»l of Journalism meetii in the I9(i0s. wuisdcrcd how he atkl his nintem iiraries in college could have been so frightened and injciive. sn d» nu hing. Students of the late 19)0s and the 19Hlv. gave themselves to fun with little buoyancy. Sen. ■ editor wrote. As I tememba 1951 it was a winter ot {lair, ' bur fell com}ielle i to add, but it was the vprin hope. and Tlicse were the best and wnrst of time . the best seemingly a bow to convention. Students werr beginning to question aisd doubt. Still, in the 19-lO ' s and I9 0 s they accepted (wuprieties. - were polite, dressed conventionally, went to church, and used the bad four-letter words only in moments of as- sumed daring. Genuine questions »tre being asked by studenrs in the I9 0s about student government tlut « tild genuinely be theirs an l about meaningful partaipatMin in their ed- ucatuia In w« rld affairs titey were dominated by fear of G rofnunisni The whole country was beyorsd all reason disriubed by C tmmunism and the disease had been caught by studentv As earls as 19 0 Th KMnun cditorulMrd on •langcrs i f subversive elements m this country. ' y-xx did not abate until the I(V 0 ' s Thar fear
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riity ramr to nnmlrr in thr l Kt(fs why (IS stitdrnt llwy n orc not an artit e fHirt of xM-ivty. n ity their vnvrfiy and in ' trllificnrc shtuihi not hv used in the in- terests of s H-iety. n hy they should wait for firtiduation tit live real life. Students had been told b) ' their ciders for gencfjimns thjii u|x)n (hrm. Jtfter their radtatioM. would rest the ucl fare ( f Hxict). that the wmld be in the driver s m u This was an inescapable condition, of course. The) ' tame to wonder in the 19f 0 ' !» wliy as students the) were inu an active part of society, why their energy- and intelligetuc should not be used in the interests of s«xicty. why tlicy should wait for aduati .x) to live real life. Must education be a thing, apart from living; actively? Gradiully tl)e realized that security in life is not pi sstble. That life i challen and not acceptance That to be in the driver seat th ey must posscvs self kiMiwled e as well as ktvowU.-ilj;c of society aitd tl»e world. They came to ask. NX ' ho are we. anyway. ' Who am I. ' X ' ho is everybody, black and white ' and red and yelJim . ' ' What is nKicty. What is education. ' By artd large, the prt)gressiiMi of students was from a protected, self-satisfied and self-confident perstm to .1 questioning, dotibiing pcTson. to one craving security, to itK thinking of life as impernuiKni, to one finding society uns jund, to one knowing that a new society is today in the nuking H C. Mini . The students of iho ' e day lot ed fun. a huhhliiifi and irresponsilde fun, a gaiety that u as almost unknown to stu- dents of the lOfUTs.
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