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Three problems plague the attainment of an effective civil defense program for the United States. Lack of inter-state, inter-city, and national coordination, lack of public interest, and lack of a realistic civil defense program are the obstacles in the road to a more sound program for survival in a nuclear conflict. The present civil defense system has proven inadequate because of inefficient cooperation, apathy, and misguided effort. The situation is only worsened by recent proposals of the Federal Civil Defense Administration...
...examination of the loose organization headed by the Federal Civil Defense Administration shows a primary cause of inefficiency. State and municipally employed officials work almost independently. Although the administration of equipment and evacuation procedure requires greater inter-state and inter-city co-operation, little effort has been made to co-ordinate permanent operations on a national level...
Conant discussed the idea again, before the Harvard Club of New York the same month that his original proposal appeared. Again he emphasized the importance of the inter-departmental, intellectual cross-fertilization, of getting "university-minded men" to help counteract the divisive effect of Harvard's size, of commissioning "outstanding scholars who would be free to roam about the entire university...
With the introduction of the House system for upperclassmen in 1930-31, the freshman intramural system became a separate entity for the first time. Up until then, freshmen dorms had been competing against dorms for other classes as well. Indeed, interclass rivalry had been even more important than inter-house rivalry...
...Both inter-collegiate games were played at home on the Radcliffe quad. A game had been scheduled at Pembroke, but was cancelled "because it was on a Tuesday and too many people had labs," the new captain reported...