HAMILTON IN THE WAR fffllllfl-11116112 more absorbing than the Articles of War. The Chapel served as a catch-all, includ- ing its use as a cinema palace and as a classroom for large groups. In December, 1944, came the news that a mass exodus of the warriors would be complete by the following February. With this announcement gray hairs multi- plied in the budget department. But in any ease the facts were that, after three years of war training programs, 300 CPT fliers, 700 air corps pre-meteorologists, and a countless number of ASTP trainees, A-127s, and pre-medics had been boosted along their educational way. K Came 1945, the wild bells rang out, and Hamillonews exulted: The road is open. lt will 11ot be long before the campus is once more crowded with Hamiltoniansf' lt was not long. With the passing months applications for admission swamped the administration. In keeping with the times, a 116W president, David Worcester, and a new dean of students, Theodore S. Jones, both naval veterans, were appointed, and stepped into unenvied roles as peacetime planners. The Hamilton that geared itself to war has found no easy task in reconverting to peace. Still Hamilton remains as we knew it: the View over the Oriskany, the neat. quadrangles, the importunate chapel bell-these are immutable in the Hamil- ton of yesterday and today. Between Twolfras . . . Ei
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