Word: arps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over 200 people, including 65 Harvard undergraduates, 120 Radcliffe girls, and several member of the University Faculty and staff attended the first meeting of the second session of the Harvard Air Raid Precautions school. The meeting included general discussion of ARP communications and organization in the Greater Boston Region, especially in the City of Cambridge and on the University grounds...
According to Dean Chauncey, the new program is "particularly intended for those now in ARP who have had no special training." It is thus intended to remedy the present situation, under which many of their House wardens are nearly if not entirely unschooled in their duties...
...held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, the course is divided into two sections to total 18 hours. A ten hour basic first aid course, for all ARP men, and an additional eight hour specialized training class, make up the required curriculum. In addition, however, students may take a more advanced ten-hour class in first...
...surprise blackout test caught post-weekend Harvard off guard last night, but when the wailing sirens announced the actual raid the local ARP force had mobilized and effectively blackened out the University...
...flight Abstractionist Hans Arp had his passport to the U.S. ready, his tickets in hand, but postponed his going. He wasn't sure whether it would be worth while, since he wasn't guaranteed first-class passage...