Word: arps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ARP Mobilized...
...confidential alert came in at 8:59 o'clock, followed by the banshee wall of the blue siren at 9:10. Harvard blacked out immediately, the military dorms leading the way, the civilian ARP men in the College Houses following, and the older men of the graduate schools completing the darkness...
Aldrich Durant, chief of Harvard's ARP, announced that the alert went off "as well as could be expected," considering the surprise nature of the alarm. All Cambridge personnel cooperated with a minimum of hitches. Since the time of the test raid was unknown, no "incidents" were planned...
Aldrich Durant, chief of Harvard's ARP, announced that the alert went off "as well as could be expected," considering the surprise nature of the alarm. All Cambridge personnel cooperated with a minimum of hitches. Since the time of the test raid was unknown, no "incidents" were planned. An on-the-minute incident was arranged by the newly reshuffled Cambridge City Fire Department, who drove a truck to Widener steps to guard against incendiaries...
...these activities have now become overshadowed by the war. P.B.H.'s War Service Committee is the center of blood and bond drives around the college; it sponsors police forces, fire fighters, and ARP wardens. And, in line with its traditional policy of experimentation, Brooks House is now hard at work at its newest project. "contacting" all undergraduates who leave college for the Armed Services, keeping track of their location. readdressing mail, procuring them invitations from families of Harvard men, and keeping them in touch with what is going on in Cambridge...