Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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schedule to include three games against other colleges and four against service teams. VICTORY IN JAPAN. Leighton says College confident that there will be sufficient room in the Houses for incoming vets of the near future. Brown beats Crimson 3 to 2. SEPTEMBER, 1945 Second installment of the Class, '49b, enters Col- lege. Registration reaches 1383 as first peacetime term begins. H.A.A. announces Bill Bingham's re- lease from the Army. Harvard-Radcliffe Freshman teas resumed at Brooks House, blond Chicagoan Carol Jones named Miss 1949 by Service News. General Education committee calls for modification of elective curricular system. OCTOBER, 1945 Tufts beats Crimson in football opener. Buck appointed Provost of the University, Bailey named Secretary to the Corporation. University of Rochester . . . last name, first name, middle initial, last name, first name, middle initial . . .

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T Class The Class of '49 is a strange animal-born, as it were, in three sectionsg one-third in the summer of 1945, one-third in the fall of that year and one-third the following spring. To tell the long sad tale of this strange animal, to recall the events in which it was both spectator and participant, is the purpose of these pages. Month by month-from the hot July day when the first segment of the Class enrolled to the equally hot June day when the Class graduated -the incidents that we of the Class found most memorable will be included. But no mere collection of facts is sufficient to tell the real story of this extraordinary group of indi- viduals. Underlying the confusion of a thousand iso- lated happenings is a single and critical fact that must be recognized if one is to find a significance to these happenings. That fact is this: The Class' entire life in Cambridge was spent in the wake of the most extensive reorientation that the College has ever experienced. The Class lived through an epoch of slow but irreversible change in an institution relatively unaccustomed to change. Though spread out, the Class' entrance into the College centered about the date of victory in Japan. The temporary wartime modifications of pre-war College life were to be torn away one by one as the months went by, but-and this is the important thing -these modifications were not replaced by a reinstate- ment of the good old days, they could never be. What came instead was a synthesis between the pre-war, the war and the demands of an ill-defined post-war period. Uncertainty and variability characterize the internal aspect of the external events that are to be presented. Now turn back to that hot day in July. JULY, 1945 Registration in Memorial Hall with a hundred places to sign your name. Examination for exemption from English A-few got out of it. Reception that evening in the junior common room of Kirkland House where Dean Buck, the principal speaker, told these new members of the College that there was no truth to the numerous and widely-spread stereotypes of a Harvard Man. Meeting at New Lecture Hall the following day addressed by Dean Leighton and others. Open house at Phillips Brooks. First classes. Com- pulsory athletics. Conant's report on General Educa- tion in a Free Society announced. AUGUST, 1945 Carrier Aircraft Service Unit team beaten 7 to 4 by Jack Wallace's excellent pitching. H.A.A. an- nounces start of pre-season football practice and new

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Mokeshift quarters in the Indoor Athletic Building. beaten 21 to 13. Lehman Hall announces no imme- diate plans to return to waitress system in House dining halls. Team slaughters Coast Guard Academy 25 to 0. NOVEMBER, 1945 Undergraduates protest non-participation as faculty passes basic educational reforms outlined in the Gen- eral Education report. Kings Point beaten 28 to 7. John Chase returns as hockey coach. Varsity takes Brown 14 to 7. Grant received for new library build- ing. Robert Benchley dies in New York. Boston Uni- versity massacred 60 to 0. Yale wins 28 to 0. Harlow named president of American Football Coaches Asso- ciation. DECEMBER, 1945 Student group chosen to help select site for Lamont Library. Hutchins terms General Education Report