University of the South - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Sewanee, TN)

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We sat in silence for some time. Then he said in a reflective tone, I was there during the worst part of the Depression. There were about 150 students in the College during my fresh- man year. The enrollment didn ' t change much while I was there. Everybody knew everybody else and we had the feeling that we were all in this together. Don ' t get me wrong: we raised just as much of it as you fellows today, maybe more. But the University was in awfully bad shape finan- cially and those hard times brought out the best in all of us. That genius you were talking about reached out and grabbed us and commanded our devotion. When the University Prayer was read in daily chapel, we really prayed for that ' never-failing succession of benefactors ' you fellows sometimes scoff at. When we heard ' Gentlemen, the Vice- Chancellor, ' we snapped to out of respect, not because it was cus- tomary. This man was doing a superhuman job with only human abilities and we appreciated it. You really would have to have witnessed one of those Thanks- giving Day games against Van- derbilt to know what real school spirit is. athletics,

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