University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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The ever-i demand Student Union has seen the passing of many feet— from peace- time freshman to war-time senior m four short years.

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,ONDON AIR TOLL 00; DOCKS PARALV 4 With our diplomas framed and hanging on the wall across from us, we, the class of 1 944, will take a little while to reflect on the four years of playing, studying, laughing, and facing cer- tain misfortunes on which we have just lowered the final curtain. In these four years we have learned what it means to be a loyal Cornhusker — but, let ' s start at the beginning of our college life. I shall endeavor to remain in school and to be loyal to the school and its purposes and traditions — repeated 1500 of us at the acceptance of the Freshman Oath in the Coliseum September 25, 1 940. We ' d been through the confusion of registration and a week of school — yes, we knew where Sosh was — and we could already make class in time to meet the professor at the door. While we were bombarded with UN propaganda: get your fresh- man caps, buy your CORNHUSKERS here, — the Nazi lufte- waffe was futilely trying to bomb Britain to her knees. Herman Goering himself flew over London to see how his bombardiers had paralyzed the dock system and sent the list of fatalities soar- ing to 600 killed and thousands injured — the Nazi eagle was a haughty bird during the fall of 1940 — and day and night were equally dark to the Englishmen, who were spending half of every day m the air raid shelters. The English couldn ' t appreciate the beauties of fall that year; they were busy dodging bombs and writing the 1 940 counterpart of Waterloo and the sinking of the Spanish Armada. But in Ne- braska as fall began to gild the trees a golden brown UN foot- ballers went in for heavy scrimmage. How good were the Cornhuskers to be m 1940? While we awaited the answer, a question of the future foreign policy of the United States was be- ing decided. On the day we observed all-university church night the Rome-Berlin axis was extended to Tokyo. WAR YEAR OLD i Wu«J w