1943 Aurora pages dedicated to featuring how "Manchester Serves."  Featured are "Civilian Public Service," "Manchester's Reserves," "Physical Fitness," "Armed Forces," "Service Council" and a closing, "We Are Thankful."  The introduction to the segment is excerpted below:

"...None of us need to be reminded that it is a year of crisis for youth...We have been sobered by the loss of our closest friends, sweethearts, and pals, into active service for our nation....Manchester has become a little world of strange but wonderful contrasts and conflicts.  Here, as in no other colege in the nation, the impasse between clashing beliefs and traditions has stood out - softened in the ever-friendly light of tolerance that is forever Manchester. Whether a fellow is compelled by personal conviction to be a conscientious objector, a member of one of the armed forces, or just willing to 'go in the draft', he knows M.C. is respecting him.  When he must answer the call, he knows that the spirit that is Manchester goes with him.  Girls, too, have felt the uneasiness of the past year.  They have a stake, personal in many cases, in the lives of those who would serve America.  But whoever we are, however we choose to seve, it shall be as true sons and daughters of Manchester..."

1943 Aurora, pg. 122