University of Wyoming - WYO Yearbook (Laramie, WY)

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lery School at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky, and the Machine Gun School at Camp Hancock, Georgia. There are no ceremonies, classes go on as usual — impassiveness is part of the military life — but many a University heart is wrenched — faculty as well as feminine — for with these detachments, the upper classes, so far as men are concerned, are passing. Nearly all the Seniors have already gone, and now 1920 is on its way. This is the University of Wyoming in war. Gone its happy college life of other days — vanished its academic freedom. Funds, plant, Board of Trustees, faculty, student body — all are unreservedly at the service of the Government, and one dominating thought directs the purpose of all — Win the War . The Armistice! Demobilization!! It is over!!! The Captains and the Kings depart — the Students ' Army Training Corps, as suddenly as it came into being, passes and is no more. Alas! the S. A. T. C. ! An interesting experiment that — in education as well as in military training — but launched too hastily, by an inexpert personnel, in a laboratory not properly prepared! Given time for adjustment and co-ordination it might, as its sponsors fondly hoped, have worked a beneficent revolution in education, and gone far towards affording a solution of more than one problem of national importance. A great idea — but dim ' d ere it nooned . Vale, S. A. T. C. ! And new that we are normal again, we sigh with relief and settle back — to what? To the good old days — those complacent, myopic, pre-war days? Is our word of command now to be AS YOU WERE ? No! That easy world we knew is gone forever. We live in a time of readjustment and reconstruction — a time that demands resolute facing of the problems of the future as well as those of the present. If, by War ' s grim decision, Absolutism has been overcome, other menaces to our civilization have been uncovered, the existence of which we scarcely imagined but yesterday. And so, in our progress we must be cautious. We must look forward, but with a roving eye — the good scout, remember, takes an occasional glance backward over the path he is traversing, lest in the changing perspective, he lose track of his landmarks. Our ideals, while of the highest, must be practical; our altruism tempered by the possibility of performance. To knowledge must be added training, efficiency, moral and physical fitness, and a sympathetic understanding of things as they are if college folk are to take their places as leaders in the tremendous affairs of the era that is dawning. Proved by War as well as by Peace, the University will fit its young people to meet the conditions of the world they live in. ON WYOMING! B. C. D.

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OW proud we are of this service flag with its four hun- dred and fifty-seven stars! What a story of patriot- ism and of sacrifice it reveals to us! How significant of the year 1918-19! And so we of the Junior Class felt that no history of U. W. for the past year could be complete — could even pretend to be a history of the year — without this flag. We almost felt, indeed, that little else was needed; in its stars can be read the greater part of our 1918-19 history. And may this flag ever be one of the most cherished possessions of our institution. May it ever serve as an inspiration to the students of our beloved University of Wyoming! o |CZ=IOIZ3| O Q o H 1 o |(ZZIOI=Z |0