“This year Idaho students saw their University go into a high-speed program of wartime education… watched great changes made in the school they had known in peacetime. But while men have teetered on the edge of the Selective Service Act and while women have worried about the men or the lack of them, the general pattern of college life has somehow gone on quite the same as ever.

Music hall pianos still bang out across the campus as before, the warm spring sun still puts Idaho men to sleep in their classes, and the stink is always with Science Hall. Somehow, vines are still clawing their way across the auditorium wall and the Ad clock is pointing off the hurrying hours of another term…”

From the 1942 Gem of the Mountains Digital Yearbook