University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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u» m iii iit ) } iif £) ii) ii) (I) £) (J) ii) (Q) i ) i) 0) (J) (J) ( » (Q) (J) » » S) (J) 2i) ( 1 5) (£» (2) S» S» 1) 0» ( » £» s» (2» 2) ( ) (2) (J) (Ji if.i ( 1 ) school enrollment, short courses, and refresher courses. Hundreds of new subjects are offered and often new methods are apjjlied to the teaching of old ones. With enrollment in- creasing, Collegetown, U. S. A., saw prosperity and big- ness just around a Broadway corner. Expansion and growth saw Collegetown burst from its shell and become a city, a metropolis of hundreds of wonderful things like busses, elaborate shops, plain and fancy restau- rants, expanding banks, and modernistic apartment houses. Then came the announce- ment that Uncle Sam would send his G.I. Joes to college courtesy-of-the-government. Collegetown shifted into high gear. Columbia boomed with ac- tivity. Restaurants, rooming houses, theaters and cloth- ing stores readied their forces to cope with the increased population. Everyone was in high spir- its about peace and about Collegetown ' s future. Col- legetown had a smile for its incoming G.I. population. More girls flowed into girls ' colleges because they couldn ' t get into the crowded University. After Private Willie Jones dropped his barracks bag in his old room, he went out to look the town over. He noted a re-decorated theater, a new parking lot, a neon-lighted liquor store, and three drug stores where there used to be one. Willie was glad to be back. He felt new hope. Somehow he ' d get through school on-the-double and ride the gravy train. But he ' d have a good time at college — to forget the lost years and the overwhelm- ing shock of being home again. In time, Willie would find his place. It was a purposeful life in the Forties and Collegetown helped make a dream come true, made it possible for men and women to get the most from their three or four years in the com- munity. A community dedicated to education. And so this year ' s SAVI- TAR is dedicated to the enlarged field of education which promises America a saner, more prosperous future, and dedicated to Collegetown, U. S. A., which serves as the backbone of the educational plant . . . the University

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oLj cLLc all (TrL- DaCK in the days when Dad wore a beaver coat and Mom danced the Charleston, things moved at a leisurely pace, despite the inroads of the hotcha and the hootch. No one thought of summer school, or of overloading his schedule. It was the Age of Content- ment, a marking time before the sudden onslaught of progress. Change was inevitable, however, and it came in huge, hungry strides. Changes in the concept of the purpose of education and in the face of Collegetown have come from the Twenties with its short-short skirts, woman suffrage, prohibition, and gang wars; from the Thirties with their Great Depres- sion, the New Deal and social revolution; and from the Forties with World War II, the atom bomb and the G. I. education bill. The years of progress showed their effects on Collegetown. College today is an industry and source of livelihood like everything else. The inventions, discover- ies, and social changes of the past three decades have resulted in a faster pace in education, large summer (A) U ' (J) (£)

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c» { ) H) ( » » 0 ' » : i (£» (Ci o i i ( 1 i » (£) (u» THIS YEAR marks the midway point in the 20th Century, despite what a few stubborn mathematicians say to the contrary. It also marks a good point to pause and reflect. We have inherited a lot from our student predecessors. And we have added our bit to that future inheritance. Is THIS INHERITANCE one of traditions, buildings, and dates? Or is it something else, something you can ' t stick in your billfold or find printed on your diploma? Call it college spirit if you like, although it goes a lot deeper than cheering for the football team. It ' s something that ' s tied up with you as a human being. And the more human you are, the more you ' ll realize its value.