Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Harvard's thousand freshmen will find themselves living for the most part in the historic elm-shaded Yard which until nine years ago was the sanctum of the Senior Class. Here they will exist as a unit more or less separated from the rest of the college with their lives centering in the Harvard Union, combination dining room, pool parlor, dance hall, and library...
...freshmen caused great difficulay until the Houses were completed in 1930 and the upper classmen were moved away from the Yard. Previous to this time first year men had existed in a precarious hand-to-mouth fashion in dormitories and local boarding houses with little integration of the class as a whole...
Good Beginning. U. S. civilians found Hugh Drum's criticism more stimulating than disheartening, saw no reason to doubt that the Army already has the start for a first-class fighting force. Working till they were wobbly, sleeping on the ground in cold and rain, the First Army's sickness rate was about half the rate for regulars in garrison. Its morale was tops; after long hikes, fights through underbrush, soldiers were not too tired to shave, brush their teeth, skylark. The supply system, running in food and ammunition for an army bigger than the population of Schenectady...
...Leon Trotsky was a successful author with an adoring wife, a house in the suburbs and enough money to live in smug comfort. A lifetime devoted to the destruction of the middle class had made him one of its members...
Many were the reasons for evacuation's failure. Said Mrs. Cole: "The scheme failed to appeal, partly . . . because it was drawn up by minds that were military, male and middle-class." Typical miscalculations...