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...Wistful Harvardmen-turned-servicemen who came back to look around during the War found out soon enough that the place wasn't the same. They looked for a five column daily CRIMSON, and saw in its place the Service News; they looked for the Advocate and found nothing; every-where the once vigorous mass of undergraduate activity was a wraith, stuttering along, supported by a skeletal student body...
...only pre-war undergraduate publication to bull its way through war's hell and high water, coming out less than regularly after the spring of '43, but appearing now and then anyway. Brightest spot in the Lampoon's wartime history was the overseas edition, reportedly sent to all Harvardmen in the Armed services. Issues during the darker war years were apt to be liberally larded with reprint cartoons and poems conceived in brighter days, when the Bow Street emporium was set up to be the cultural center of College life...
...Contact," a Brooks House program that enables Harvardmen in the armed forces to keep in touch with their classmates, is still maintained as a transition service, while the wartime blood donor organization has been converted to supply Cambridge hospitals instead of the Red Cross...
Harvard's suicide rate has reached one each week, Harvardmen are a dying race, the old school tie is vanishing, and something's got to be done. That's the thesis of Dr. Clarence J. Gamble, who graduated from the Med School in 1920, as expounded in a letter to the Alumni Bulletin published this week...
...north of the Yard are the towering Memorial Hall, where Harvardmen once ate, now register and take exams; and the New Lecture Hall, now no longer...