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...fact of the matter is that the university most emphatically does not intend to repeat the mad rush of 1917-18. Harvard will not become an armed camp, nor will its primary purpose be the nurturing of cannon fodder. The University's donation to this war will be not so much flesh and blood as brains, specialized and trained in science, economics, and the art of modern war. Except for the three-year program, there are no plans to curtail academic work for students. On the contrary, the curriculum will be increased by the addition of new defense courses training...
Closest to Boston, the Harvard Cabin, at which about 75 men spent some 150 man-nights last winter, will be home for those who count on skiing in the Notches, especially around the Cannon Mountain Tramway serving four main trails, and on Cranmore Mountain in North Conway which is the recreational center for ski train athletes...
Some tanks throw or break their tracks, and lie still like wounded animals. New weapons appear-ugly little German 20-mm. ultra high-velocity anti-tank guns, motorized 75s, an occasional Hurricane blazing away with four cannon, Stukas in their grim game of selective diving...
...battlefield were around 400 light (13½-ton) U.S. tanks, each armed with a 37-mm. cannon and machine guns, some 50 U.S. mediums-30-tonners armed with a 75, a 37 and machine guns. Those were the equals, on paper, of the Germans' heavy (32-ton) Mark...
Both observers and newsmen reported that the nimble lights could wheel and pirouette faster than the German tanks; that the thin side armor of German mediums was poor protection against the 37-mm. cannon of the U.S.-made tanks...