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President Conant last night, addressing an informal welcome to nearly 700 Freshmen tightly packed into the Lowell House dining hall, pointed out that the principal problem now before the Class of 1946 is how each member can serve his country in the war. The other speakers at the meeting were...
Gummere, who spoke after Conant, offered words of advice to 1946 interspersed with humorous references to former Freshmen who had been in their position in previous years. He emphasized that Freshmen in Harvard College are never babied or pampered, but are treated and taken "just as seriously as Seniors." Part...
Other speakers on the program besides President Conant are Dr. Roger I. Lee, Fellow of Harvard College, and Richard M. Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admissions. The speakers will welcome the new members and outline plans and objects of the year.
7,118 men, comprising the largest Freshman class in history, signed their way into Harvard on September 20, and then assembled in the Union to hear District Attorney Robert F. Bradford '23, Willard L. Sperry, dean of the Divinity School, and Richard M. Gummere '01, chairman of the Board of...
Just six days before Pearl Harbor, Director of Admissions Gummere revealed that the entrance requirements had been cased, allowing admission with fewer examinations, while Professor Michael A. Karpovlch, now czar of History I, and expert on Russia, asserted that the Soviets can "hold out indefinitely."