Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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statements, replete with such terms as: let us avoid indis- creet words and to an impartial observer .... Winter came, and a disappointing Yale game passed. As a dull month crept by, the thorny problem of faculty tenure was hnally settled in a rather unsatisfactory compromise. Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead, put on by the Student Union, was the dramatic success of the semester. Then, at last, Christmas Holidays arrived to relieve the monotony of cold morning classesg and the Freshmen, tweed coats draped over their shoulders and new pipes in their mouths, went home to show what they had learned. After the student body had returned to college and when mid-years with their all-night cram sessions were over, the heaviest snow in twenty years fell, blocking the streets of Cambridge and forcing unhappy science majors to wade through hip-deep drifts to reach their laboratories. Mean- while, a few enterprising students of '43 started the Yfzrnlling a newspaper for Freshmen. The months now were going by at a faster pace. In March, Freshman finally had to choose their fields of concen- trationg and when the statistics appeared, it was found that ffl K T1 152 -1 Tv qJS?2J X -C7 ,192 Future officers do physical as well as mental exercise at Harvard. Here ensigns do their daily calisthenics in front of Weld Hall. 4151

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fwfrzrrarri Zcfiwfrfiy . Q. the war .... Now we do not see the war as a Hnality. The last war was not an end, but a beginning. In the same issue of the Crimron that printed this speech appeared an editorial which was to set the tone for the news- paper all through the fall and winter. We must convince ourselves now that no war is a holy war, that we might be heading for another great double-cross .... Freshmen met with their advisers, decided upon their courses, attended their first classes, and the year really began. Registration statistics had shown that the majority of '43 planned to be doctors, lawyers or teachers. These new students were planning for peace, and yet, the enrollment in Military Science I was higher than ever before. In the second week Freshmen heard much about the highly complex problems involved in the tutoring and tenure question, but these problems as yet meant little to them. What concerned them more were the friendships that they were making each day and the Harvard-Radcliffe Phillips Brooks House tea that was fast approaching. As the weeks fluttered by, they went to the football games, worried about the absence of concerted cheering, read that a Professor Sorokin had stated that a long war would mean the end of Europe for decades. And while discussion over the repeal of the Arms Embargo Act seethed in Congress, the .Union Committee was selected. As November came, three-quarters of the undergradu- ates voted that they were in favor of non-intervention. Then, when the first hour examinations were safely passed, relaxing Freshmen were distracted from the troubles of the classroom by the heated argument raging over the college administrations refusing to allow Earl Browder to speak here. The Crimron rebuked the administration for its de- cision, and for several days, letters and editorials, sometimes vituperative, sometimes coldly analytical, were written pro and con. Meanwhile, as lkzyjfazire Browder wore itself out, occasional editorials appeared emphasizing the necessity of remaining at peace, but these were careful, dispassionate Business School officers, loaded down with packs and assorted equipment, climb into one of their trucks to prepare for maneuvers. 'l12l'

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Jia mm! Caddy. . . the number of students who planned to major in Government was larger than the number in any other single field. A few days later, students' attention was drawn to Bertrand Russell's clash with Gloria Kay and Justice McGeehan of New York City. Harvard, with the overtones of the Browder incident still ringing in its ears, had suddenly appointed the philoso- pher to a teaching position here. The Boston press yelled in protest against the appointment of a man who entertained such immoral Views on sex, love, and marriage. Mickey Sullivan, red-baiting Cambridge politician, hit the front page by holding up for half an hour a Student Union production of Waiting for Lefty. Ironically enough, Mr. Sullivan did not realize that the other half of the Student Union's program was Archibald MacLeish's anti-fascist Fall of the City. In the early spring, a Freshman amateur hour took place, and a few days later, a peace rally, one thousand strong, at which Norman Thomas was the chief speaker was held in Memorial Hall. Copey gave his annual reading just before his birthday. The same issue of the Crimson that carried the Yard walks are widened for Navy formations Symbolic of Harvard's alertness in wartime, the air-raid siren on top of Widener sends its warning alarm in all directions i14l'