Excerpt from The Index, 1943, Vol. 53 The 1943 Index 18 a record of a dynamic year. Tra dition and change are side by side: Old. Main may be blacked out for the d-uration, but the Tower Clock will still strike the hours as always. The Index staff hopes that this year's book not only has caught the impact and Vitality of a war year, but also has kept the greater part of the beauty and tradition that its the heart of our school. To present this picture of a changing scene, we have chosen a formal treatment - a treatment that represents stability in a chaotic world. We have accomplished our purpose if the 1943 Index is a C'he'r ished record for students on both the haomezflfron-t and! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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 blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.