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members of the Classes of 1943 and 1944 will return in force to Harvard after the war is over. For professional education will be as significant in the future as in the PZLSE. To borrow from the current military phraseology, one may say that you have received your basic training,weducation for specialized skills is yet to come. But whether your work in the post-war world will be the result of further study at a university or not, you will be among the relatively small number of your age group who have had this basic training. Your responsibility will be correspondingly heavy. You will be among the most highly educated of a war generation. You will be both col- lege men and veterans. Future leaders of the country will be drawn from your ranks and supported by your endeavors. Much depends on your efforts in the war, but still more depends on your attitude towards the grave problems which must be faced once the war is won. With few exceptions Harvard has taught you but little which will be of direct assistance in your military duties. But we hope that the tradition which this College fosters- the tradition of tolerance and understanding based on knowl- edge, of passionate belief in the prime significance of freedom -will serve you in good stead in the years ahead. It is for us who remain within the academic walls to cherish this tradi- tion and to make it have renewed significance in a nation dedicated to the principles of liberty and opportunity for all. It is for you, by your words and actions to show the stupidity and folly of those who only yesterday proclaimed the death of all democraciesg it is for you to show how free men may organize with justice and with tolerance a mechanized civiliza- tion in a contracted world. JAMES BRYANT CONANT FT

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D A Y . . . Uzree year in rcfrvspecf HE history of an average class at Harvard has been in the past a studious compilation of events both serious and amusing, so contrived that the alumnus, on rereading the Album, could indulge in the relaxation of nos- talgia and reminiscence. In that time, the writer was faced with the problem of combining the best elements of the historian and the raconteur in such proportion that what to him was the immediate past must somehow be sub- limated into a prose of flavor and association. The Classes of 1943 and 1944, however, are not average ones. Entering with the usual proportion of minds and dullards, of Easterns and Westerners, they have been broken in mid-shaft, to peter out into three graduations and a mixture of three or perhaps four classes. They are war-conscious classes that entered under the tired optimism of Archibald MacI.eish and are now leaving for immediate participation in the conflict itself. In the future, we will want to know more of our early reactions to the war, of the changes it brought about throughout the college, and-most important-of the changes it brought about in our own lives at Harvard and in our ideas and attitudes. Indeed, these classes can only be conceived against a background of war. Even the traditions which every previous class had held were being subtly readjusted at the very moment we were to adopt them, changing without our realizing it, never again to be the same. When we mention a dance in Novem- ber 1939, we must realize that as the dance took place, captured Polish prisoners were being shot. This does not mean that we were on the offbeat of a burning Rome or that we were callously unaware of the vast conflict ravaging both Europe and Asia, it meant that the same conflict was altering the foundations of the life we ourselves had always known before. Our traditions were in transit. The 301st Freshman class entered as Hitler completed the sack of Poland. The first week was not oriented towards the warg for it had been a week of sizing-up roommates, calibrating the eating places about the Square, and of slowly realizing how vast and complex was the heretofore simple concept of the Harvard man. But the week ended on an abruptly different note. After the bewilderment of registration, the class had assembled in the Union to test their board for the first time and to hear the inevitable assort- ment of welcoming speeches. They were to go home to their still unfamiliar rooms, filled with a mixture of fear and excitement that Archibald MacLeish's Freshman address was to inspire in them. Those of you who will be alive Hve, seven, or ten years from now will have a task of reconstruction, the labor of creating a world in which men can live together. Then, in the same note . . . Your class has a prototype, the Class of 1918. That generation, my generation, believed that the future was the war and there was no future after