University of Massachusetts Lowell - Sojourn / Knoll Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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THE 9 fc KNOLL Published by the .... Senior Class of Lowell Teachers College at Lowell, Massachusetts

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FOREWORD To record successfully the events of such a year as the 1941-42 passage of time, one would need the pages of a modern best seller and the verbiage of a Mun- chausen. The editor of such a tome would need to be a photographer with seven league boots, a typist of court reporter speed, and a prognosticator of no mean ability. We have, however, tried to catch within the pages of this book the feeling of cataclysmic change and kaleidoscopic movement that has so character- ized this year. Even before the school year opened with a war raging in Europe we felt the change as the interventionists argued with the isolationists. Then as the year progressed and we went to practise teach- ing we could feel the pulse of the world quickening. And then — when we least expected it — came Pearl Harbor. Now we look back and see the sheltered ex- istence of the past years and wonder how so much ADMINISTRATION