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

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Students in skirts, students in uniform, students whose life has heen harassed by a war. We had heen trained not to expect to Fight in war as we have fought in peace : For liherty, for justice, for the intelligent mind Which creates its freedom and Defends it. In the microcosm that is Carolina, In this universe which reflects the the world, We learn to govern first ouraffves and then Our land, our society, ouMinic; We who look forward to world Ours to make less evil iawar or peace Who will earnestly denyBear. To wrest from this era so thing more than A vacuum surrounded by a bo n

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So ended the foreword left to us to continue In the nineteen forty-four yearhook. The time is indeed now. We who were stunned by the enormity of war Realize that life, in death, goes on . . . Four wars have swept the campus. Four generations of students like ourselves Have faltered in their stride, have learned again, Day passes into day and life goes on.

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--• Here is a man With his feet on the ploughed field And his eyes scanning the far reaching Ink on his index finger . . . horizon. Here is a scholar, world authority on The Old English sivti, which has heroine in Modern English the expression «s . . . as — Who knows more ahout that word than any living human heing on the face of the earth. Here is a teacher Who has wandered over the earth, who has taught In China as in North Carolina: Liking us, his hearers, as individuals and respecting us as students So that we respect ourselves. Because, Dr. Ericson, you are to us A friend, staff of the 1945 yearhook join in its lication . . .