THE YACKETY YACK, 1942 (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from The Yackety Yack, 1942Chapel hill, N. C.cc)ast September most of us were looking forward to a good year. It looked like a gay year - with dances and week-ends and football games. It seemed to be a hopeful year - because business was good and the chances of our getting jobs next summer were better than ever. But most of all it was a carefree year - because few if any of us looked on the war as more than that fight on the other side of the ocean.December 7 changed that, changed it with overpowering force and suddenness. For within the space of one day a relatively bright future became a dark one. Un certainty, confusion, unawareness of what we as students could do or should do these were the thoughts which jolted us from our complacent world into a more sober reflection of what lay. Ahead. We found ourselves forced for the first time to face the issue squarely, to think it out to decide just where we stood.Carolina students were as confused as anyone else, we admit it. But the year didnt end in December. Actually that was its real beginning - for out of the maze of changed plans and uncertain futures there arose a feeling of unity which none of us will forget. The same feeling which makes us yell hardest at a football game when the going looks worst, the feeling we symbolize in the Old Well or Davie Poplar or the spire of the Bell Tower, the feeling which makes us proud to say were Tar Heels - that feeling pulled us together in the face of the hardest struggle any of us had ever confronted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemi