Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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In this volume UNIVERSITY HOUSES Q CLASS GF I943 Q ACTIVITIES Q CLASS OF I944 ATHLETICS FEATURES When war came to Harvard, President Conant im- mediately declared that all resources of the university would be devoted to the cause of victory. The Album board on its part, endeavoring to clarify and define the nature of activities carried on during the past year by both students and faculty, has wherever possible altered the familiar structure of the volume in order best to depict the state of the college as it performs the duties that such a time has imposed upon it. This year's board has made many changes, all of them de- signed to record more effectively the university as it is today. And we can only hope that, if we have succeeded at all in what we have attempted to do, this 1943 Album will be a worthy contribution to the story of Harvard at war. The board, in carrying out its plan, has faced many problems that arise only in periods of emergency. The lack of sufficient time and the restrictions upon production have created obstacles with which previous boards have never been confronted. As a result, we felt unable to sustain the expense and the unnecessary effort involved in printing the Faculty section as it has been in the past. And when it was impossible for us to obtain new photographs of teams or activities in time for publication, we have been forced to use material from other years. We have had scarcely half the effective working time that has always been available to pre- ceding boards, Yet, despite this, we have, in combining the Classes of 1945 and 1944, put out a larger book than ever before. Although many changes have been made as a result of these difficulties, the board has for the hrst time, seriously considered the creative possibilities of the Album. In the Faculty section and in the history of the two classes, we have attempted to give some special meaning to parts of the book that have heretofore been mere tradition. By including three articles by faculty members and a conscious effort to evaluate the past three years within the framework of a class history, we have tried to compile a volume that will be not only a yearbook, but also a meaningful record of our attitudes and our actions in college during a time of giant events. And if this should be the last Album for many years to come, we hope that we will have succeeded in our effort to express the life and thought of a university at war, and to portray to some ex- tent the meaning that the conflict of today holds for us.

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