Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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. f- 4 4 T . , 5, fr. -, fi A, Y , , , .X V 1 , 1 ' Q - m V: 1' If -, ,f ,-, e. I f f K f I J' f K K X ,- J .f 'fx l -1 .M 1.-ftp V' ' fi . A 1 For you and the other War Classes a stronger sentiment is at hand. The statistics of your Class will .stand in Harvard history as testimony hoth to the patriotic service of a generation of young men and the disruption of the colleges caused hy World War II. The puhlication gf the 1946 Class Alhum, therefore, adds a volume of special signzpcance to those records of Harvard classes which cover so many years. The normal period of undergraduate lw has heen hro hen hy the war activities of many of your memhers. N o memories o f four uninterrupted years of undergraduate activities will he availahle, unfortunate- ly, to reinfo rce friendship among classmates in the years ahead or to maintain your loyal interest in the College. For you and the other war classes a stronger sentiment is at hand. You can tahe just pride in the accomplish- ment of your contemporaries at a time of national peril. What was done under stress and in the face of hard- ships will pro vide a .solid hasis for that respect and admiration on which suhsequent reunions of your Class are certain to he founded. In .ytite of the fragmentary nature of the formal education many of you received at Harvard College, I trust as the years go on you will have a continuing interest in the University and its afairs. If you have yQflt that the tradition here at Cambridge expresses a faith in the significance of human reason and the eventual triumph of the doctrines of tolerance and freedom, your connection with the College, however short, will not have heen in vain. When in 1971 you celehrate your twenty-fifth reunion we can hope the world will show a promising outlook for those who share our faith. Whether or not this will he the case will depend to some degree on the eyj'orts ofthe memhers ofthe Class of1946. May you he successful in your work!

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and FACULTY I G, 0 EW 'Ugg . . Q . ffl X N., c tj HARVARD COLLEGE offers a liberal education of high standards for those who want it. It offers a great Faculty, great scholars, and great teachers. It offers stimulating asso- ciation with able students from diverse backgrounds. It be- lieves in freedom, in individuality and independence, not in conformity and protection from dangerous ideas and harsh facts. It does not offer security and insulation and associa- tion with a homogeneous group patterned in one mold. It offers a challenge to strength. If its challenge is accepted, it will help boys to become men-humane and tolerant and mature and tough and responsible men. Dean Wilbur J. Bender