Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight's blackout will not only be a test of the efficiency of Cambridge A.R.P. officials and wardens, but will in a large way measure the temper of students in the University. Many are taking the whole affair as a sort of joke, something which is being done to soothe the fears of local matrons in order that they may sleep more securely. Students at Oxford, too, were amused by the blackout preparations made by their own colleges, until German demolition bombs aimed at a nearby factory nearly blew their heavy stone buildings to bits. The indifference of certain Harvard...
...blackout is serious business, however. Any one willfully disregarding the orders of a warden is liable to immediate expulsion, and the severity of that penalty is well commensurate with the dangers arising from thoughtlessness during an enemy air attack. A repetition of the fireworks display put on by pranksters at the Business School during the recent Boston tryout, or of the shouting of Rhineheart in the Yard last Tuesday night, will not be tolerated by the University. A lighted match is visible from far above 10,000 feet; a window through which light escapes is a beacon to hostile planes...
Never before in the history of the College has a blackout been attempted, but yesterday University officials expressed confidence that tonight's drill, though without precedent, would be a complete success...
Meanwhile, emphasizing the seriousness of tomorow's blackout, Aldrich Durant, chief warden of the Harvard District, issued a statement yesterday calling for the cooperation of every single individual...
Opinion among various air raid wardens in charge of the blackout was virtually unanimous that the drill was highly successful. Naturally, there were a few places where lights were not extinguished, in particular on the top floors of Stoughton and Holworthy Hall, but University officials were confident that all such rough spots would be ironed out during the main Cambridge blackout tomorrow night...