University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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and nights to last us for the long fight we had ahead. The race was a close one and we had to work and play harder and faster. And so the tempo of life at Carolina hit a new high. Many memories of our last year will later come back to us — the endless gloomy Mon- day mornings after a week-end that was too big, the long fall when we waited for a vic- tory over Duke, the hours of phys- ical education and the obstacle course, the futility of trying to study in the Library at night, the booths at Marley ' s and Harry ' s, Professor Smith ' s 1:30 lab, the hours we spent in registration lines, conferences with our deans, the urgent letters from the draft board back home, the last fare- wells as we dragged our suitcase toward the bus station. Hill But no matter how or when we left, some day each of us would find the way back to Chapel Hill.

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V. HIS YEAR at Carolina has been different — the glamour of college life faded as hard work hit us with a bang. Study schedules were speeded up, the War College made its appearance, and the rah-rah days on the Carolina campus as we had known them before, were gone for the duration. The war got tough, draft boards got tougher, and the end of each quarter saw more of the fellows with whom we ' ve studied and played leave for more serious business. But even as our war program gained momentum an d the Tar Heel blue and white became red, white and blue, there were enough of us imbued with the fun-loving spirit to keep Carolina fairly much the five-ring circus that it had always been. Those of us who saw little chance of staying in school long enough to earn our diplomas vacilated between buck- ling down for a last try, or cramming enough fun into our days R Year Rt Chapel

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DotL MEN IN SERVICE — ' VEN before the treacherous storm broke over Pearl Harbor a year and a half ago, Carolina men began to drift away from our campus in a steadily in- creasing stream to fight for the global supremacy of what they enjoyed in Chapel Hill — Lux et Libertas, Light and Liberty. Thousands of Carolina students and alumni are now training in a hundred camps and fighting on a dozen battle fronts. In the hope that they may return to enjoy the ideals which they are fighting to preserve, the 1943 Yackety Yack is dedicated to Carolina ' s Men at War — and to Victory.