Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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,I , ' b 1 e house by Boston standards, used ilfmhifmefjldclhllijdtilliiid Sdgilazf rSf1ciiai'e iiigdl noted as the birthplace of Elihu Yale the founder ofa New Haven prep school. Harvard Square Qmzterl the Square with parking meters to meet its dehcits. The Coop lost 350,000 in a spectacular daylight robbery and prOmpfly announced that it would have to stop cashing checks as a precaution. i The Crimron, entering its seventy-fifth anniversary yf-Jflf, was still championing lost causes and during 1947-48 gave the Student Council and the Alumni Association's War Memorial Committee rather rough treatment for alleged Uinefliciencesf' With the '46 Triennial Reunion approaching in '49, the C1'im50'1 tumbled editorially about the strange circumstances of the '46 Class election and demanded a new ballot. The Young Republican Club's mock convention in New Lecture presaged a iiood of political clubs. ' . The Varsity Crew was nosed out by California in the Olympic trials at Princeton in july, which left the CUIHSOH with only three representatives at the London meet: Hammer- thrower Sam Felton, jr. '48, Forbes Ted Norris '49, a dis- tance swimmerg and Hilary Smart '47, who Went OU to Wm the star sailing competition. Q Dick Harlow, Harvard's head football coach since 1935, resigned in the fall of '47 because of ill-health and was replaced by Arthur Valpey from Michigan. Aldrich Durant, the Business Manager, reached the retirement age and an- nounced his resignation effective june, '48, along with Treasurer William Clafiin. Most of '46 had received their degrees by june, '48. Only a few were expected back in the fall. A handful attended Harvard's first pre-war summer school during the summer of '48, and found that parietal regulations had been amended for the summer to prohibit entertaining women in the men's dormitories and to institute quiet hours of all things. 1911 is one of the biggest trafhc headaches in the metropolitan area. Hayes Bic Criglalj along with Jim's Place, George's, the Bella Vista, and the O. G. are favorite Square eating spots. Epilogue This then was the College that we had come back to. We had completed the cycle . . . pen . . . sword . . . and pen once more. Our Harvard days were finished. We were free to debate the question of whether the education we had received was the best possible under the circumstances or whether we had missed something. We were at long last college graduates-a Latinized piece of paper testified to that, But exactly what that degree was supposed to mean we weren't sure. We were certain, however, that college didn't provide all the answers, and as we went out into the world, we could well wonder whether there was such a thing as morality or values . . . and if so, how did you reconcile them with the work-a-day world or the atom bomb . . . and how did you reconcile anything with the hundreds of millions of starving people in Europe and Asia and Africa. Perhaps at the 10th or 25th Class Reunions some of the answers will be clear, although quite possibly there are no answers to many of our questions. Only then will we be able to assess the education we received and the decisions we made in the Forties, some our own and others made for us. What will be remembered 10 or 25 years hence from our Harvard experiences? . . . an inspired lecture or an eye- opening discussion with tutor or professor ,... a torrid Wellesley date? . . . a night of beering? . . . an unsched- uled bull-session with the boys? . . . a long weekend fiow- ing about an exciting football game? . . . the beauty of the Yard and the River bank in the changing seasons? Probably all will melt nostalgically into a forgiving alumni's bigger-than-life remembrance of the good old days. M-J. S. W.

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fl93l task of obtaining the information for this section of the ook was a difficult one. Biography blanks and pic- tures in all states of dress and undress dribbled in from Palestine to Tokyo. Thanks to our barrage of letters, every man in the Class is here-whether he was at Harvard two weeks or seven years, whether his connections were severed or his degree was granted nzagmz mm laude. In case you've forgotten our system, 1 means the man participated in the activity or sport while a freshman, 2 while a sophomore, 5 a junior, and 4 a senior. Obviously Forty-six's checkered experience does not fit into such neat categories but at least these numerals are a rough chronological guide to a man's College career. In the course of our vast correspondence in collecting this informa- tion, we began to see the first faint signs ofa realization by all those whose names bear the hopeful sufiix '46 that, in addition to being distinct individ- uals with individual interests and individual goals, they are also members of a unique institution, the Class of 1946.