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Forces of the Axe. Mandel wrote of his intense suffering in captivity. It was physical: he could not sleep, his frail body was racked by pain. But he would not surrender. He addressed himself to Marshal Petain: "I am honored to have deserved this [German] hatred because, like a faithful disciple of Clemenceau, I have always applied an unbending will to the task of maintaining for France the place in the world which was assigned to her by the 1918 victory...
...week after the 1942 fall term began, the axe fell on American colleges--Washington announced its plan to draft 18-year-olds, and President Conant urged total conversion of education facilities to war training: liberal education must be revived after the war--the war's the thing...
Felt Necessities. Privately, the 27-year-old ex-soldier had other views about his experience. "We [soldiers]," he said, "have learned that whether a man accepts from Fortune her spade and will look downward and dig, or from Aspiration her axe and cord and will scale the ice, the one and only success which it is his to command is to bring to his work a mighty heart." But when Emerson talked to him passionately of the work of reconstruction that lay ahead, young Holmes felt no crusader's impulse. "Merely, he desired to use his brain, drive...
...rumored that the faculty officers are organizing a softball team for entrance in the a forming NSCS league. Here, fellow seniors, is our chance to get even for that 11 page three hour exam of last week. Speaking of that quiz, the axe fell on every class but Jig, the latter landing more men on the "P" list than all the rest of the classes combined. Most of the perennial "P" listers are back with the boys again...
...peculiar conglomeration of civilians and servicemen, Harvard has lost much that made it the Harvard of peace-time; traditions and practices have succumbed is the axe of Mars not only in University Hall, but on Mt. Auburn and Plympton and Holyoks Streets...