Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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THE YEAR 3l5 . . .

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STAFF editor-in-chief managing editor business manager photographic editor layout editor editorial board chairman activities faculty houses freshmen biographies feature $1211?r photographers sta 1f cartoonist staff artist business board assistant business manager advertising manager David P.Lighthi11 James G. Waddell Richard Van Duren Armand v. Fabella David K. Specter Richard R. Reynolds R. Stephen Berry Phillip E. Areeda Richard A. Nenneman Sergei P. Sorokin Ernest Grabelsky John R. W. Smail William D. McDowall J 01111 F. Ashton Jack E. Field Charles L. Frankel Alan G. Cass KenneLh C. Keller Michael L. Meier J. Kevin Ott Robert F. Schmalz Charles R. Waugh Stu Trott William J . Adelson H. Bruce Boal Richard H. Rubin Raymond A. Bernabo Kenneth S. Brand Burton N. Bromson Gene K. Edlin Hiram W. Emery Edward H. Fleischman John J. Frank, Jr. Alan L. Haberman Henry M. Hurd David Lazarus Ralph J. Maffei Walter E. Wolf, Jr. Daniel J. Young

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Itis not every year that can be given a label. One could, for instance, hardly identify 1949-50 as the year that first saw Lamont, or that last saw Art Valpey. These were important events but they made more stir on the front pages of the Crim- son than in everyday life at college. The same can be said of most years. By and large one year at Harvard is just like the next, though the specific news events may be entirely different. Most of the important changes of atmospherwwhich are taking place all the time as any twenty-iifth re- unioner will he only too glad to tell youeare gradual long-range ones. Only rarely does a big change occur right out in the open where every- one can see it. Only rarely, therefore, can one give a label to a year at Harvard. But 1950-51 was one of those rare years. 1950-51 was the year that the draft first came to roost on Harvard. V One can, of course, exaggerate the effect the draft had on the college. Life went on pretty much as usual: few men rushed off to enlist in term- time, and few men subscribed to the theory, why- study-when-youHe-going-to-be-drafted-soon tthough as many as ever. subscribed to the equally com- pelling argument, why-study-when-you-can-have-a beer-in-Jimlsl. The wave of applied fatalism which was said to be sweeping over the college youth of America, did not sweep over that per tion of American youth resident in Cambridge. But, although the draft did not have much effect on the actual way of life at Harvard, it did have a considerable effect on ways of thought. For some, particularly seniors, the draft was little more than a dinner-table topic of l'lever-failing interest, and