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Parked outside of the chemistry labs in Conant Hall, Professor of Chemistry Stuart L. Schreiber's car stands out among the other faculty vehicles...
Perhaps the most dramatic manifestation of thewar at Harvard was a huge drop in enrollment. InJanuary 1944, according to Conant's annual report,the College had 850 students, down from a normalpre-war level of 3,527. The University had just1,826 students instead of its normal...
Students were not the only ones in Cambridge tobe affected by the war effort. Conant noted in his1943-44 report that "some faculties have beenheavily denuded" by the war, with professorsleaving for Washington or overseas...
Perhaps the most prominent Harvard figure inthe war was Conant himself...
...outspoken advocate of American interventionbefore Pearl Harbor, Conant was instrumental inthe development of the atomic bomb...