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Arthur Darby Nock, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religions, died Friday afternoon after a week of severe illness...
SEPTEMBER. New Ivy League fashion craze, begun in Eliot House, sweeps the nation--black shirts. Cecil B. DeMille arrested by Moscow Secret Police for conspiring to overthrow the government. Says De Mille, "It was Stanislavski technique." Arthur Darby Nock denies that he is a living reincarnation. States he, "I am Arthur Darby Nock." Is given a Ford Grant to prove...
With such a schedule, life became just another almost forgotten peace-time amusement. As for college pranks, "the students were too damned frightened," according to Arthur Darby Nock, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion and a resident of Eliot all through the war. "It was like a ship on shore. The boys probably knew that the least bit of jibbery pokery, and they were back in the ranks," he says...
...civilians. The CRIMSON was replaced by the twice weekly Service News, a paper which did not run an editorial until Franklin D. Roosevelt died in April, 1945. The Student Council also showed an amazing lack of energy. It could find little more than the quality of food to discuss. Nock recalls that "the college kitchens kept up their functions although one time at the Society of Fellows they fed us horsemeat...
...while the Dewey-Roosevelt presidential election passed by almost unnoticed, war events did stir up interest. When the Allies landed in Normandy on May 6, 1944, thoughts immediately turned toward victory. On the other hand, Nock remembers that the air was charged with "a quite astonishing gloom when the Bastogne Battle began...