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A YEAR IN THE MIDST OF WAR Adapting itself with incredible ease to the re- were vacant in the classrooms, filling their places quirements of a world at war, Wake Forest College in the army, the navy or the marines — in the comes to the conclusi if a momentous year. The camps or in the thick of battles in the Pacific, in session of 1943-44 opened to the sound of march- Africa, or in Italy. Frequently came reports, ing feet — marching, ever inarching, in the dense missing or killed in action. darkness before dawn, throughout the day, and Yes, the students of ' 43- ' 44 realize,] a war was far into the night. For the Army Finance School, goin g on and they Nettled down to work with consisting of about 1,200 officers and men. using a new seriousness of purpose. Potential doctors, eight of the college buildings, the ( ' munity ministers, journalists and housewives alike schooled Center, the athletic Held.-, the campus, the streets, themselves fur the part they would soon play in and the homes of the community, worked strenu- the war and later in the peace which was to follow. ously for fifteen hours or more a day. with the For these students, whose tune was running short, hum of activity that made the care-free days of realized that their generation must he ready to leisurely college routine seem like a vanishing build a better world in the days to come. They H rea m studied with increased diligence, understanding and No student could evade or escape the spirit of enthusiasm, realizing their responsibility. the hour. Every one had friends whose places The Army Finance Sel I. having served its
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