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SOP HOM 0 R E C LAS S Conley, pJ'esidentj Naef, -uice-pr estdent ; Thomas, secretary "SOPHOMORES"-we had workeda year quiet holiday. Gas rationing and tire shortage to be called that-and it was worth it-some- put a cramp in our style, bur a bigger cramp in how. one feels proud just saying the word. It our hearts. We knew what it stood for-we is supposed to mean wise fool-and maybe we were beginning to realize what war is. Some were wise fools-but we had a grand year. of our classrnares and college friends were already We had learned that coming back in the fall in the service-and some weren't coming back was more anticipated than leaving in the Spring after Christmas-but chins up! -that you really felt like a Western Marylander However, most of us did come back, filled after you had had a summer to think everything with resolutions, and ready to hit the books. Over and be away from your closest friends and The semester was almost over and again our "steadies" from the previous year. one-day vacation between semesters was elimi- But. finally, Fall was here and we again nated, but we weren't ignorant of the necessity invaded the grounds and halls of our Alma of making sacrifices to obtain an education in Mater, this time with confidence as compared war times such as these, Two weeks after the with the fear and uncertainty of freshman new term began many boys in the Enlisted registration day of the year before. We waited Reserve were called to Uncle Sam's side: our anxiously for the freshmen to finish orientation, sophomore men were few and far between. We so we could lake over. If their boys weren't had to elect new officers to our class-r-and we praying for rain, they were lying flat in an "air girls had to turn to knitting (for Bririn}. raid drill": yes, the sophomores had to keep Selling war stamps, rolling bandages, writing them our of commission u ntil they had looked an infantry song-this became our business over the freshmen women. Their girls bad to along with everyone else's. We had to ration rake the bitter with the sweet. too-c-rbev got for canned goods-and get our sugar books [he men but we got them in a haze they won't from Miss Tweed if we wanted shoes. Yes, we forget for years to come. One thing followed became war-minded-but chins up! another and before long the girls became sorority Then came the Spring which meant gradu- sisters through bitter hours of tedious initiation