University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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from what it has extraordinary to itself. We have attempted to catch the spirit of this Michigan, this year. It is extremely difficult to record in cold type the vital, moving forces that make up any year and it has been especially difficult to do so in this year of war. History has demanded that the University pro- duce now the leaders and technicians who must take their places in the front lines of our armies, industries, and thought. This fact, however, only gradually has become apparent to us. We of 12. in a sense, have been engulfed in a fast-flowing era of thought. Four

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The success of a yearbook steins not from what it has in common with other yearbooks or publications, but

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years ago v- arrived amid the halcyon ebb of pacifism and ivory-towered cynicism. Now the tide has turned and is in full flood. We have witnessed the advent of a cataclysmic conflict, w r hich as it grew in scope anil intensity has changed the entire mode of our thinking and action. The peace rallies of 1938 gave way to the several war relief drives until our concern and de- veloping maturity led us to The Post War Problems conference of 1942. But this is only half of the picture. the more public half; even as we turned from the laboratories, the machine shops, and the desks to our