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...Pearl Harbor marked a dramatic shift in the middle of the undergraduate careers of the class of 1944. From a liberal arts college, Harvard became a war factory, with classes,professors and students all geared toward theconflict in Europe...
...remember sitting in my room at Adams House," Carens says. "We were listening to the radio and heard it announced that Pearl Harbor had been bombed...
Following the announcement of the Pearl Harborattack, Harvard President James B. Conant '13convened a mass meeting in Sanders TheatreDecember 8 to discuss Harvard's role in theinevitable conflict: "No one of you will beunconscious of the fact that he may soon be calledupon to serve," he said...
...Before Pearl Harbor, opinion about the war onthe Harvard campus was mixed, with studentsfeeling strongly on both sides of the issue...
...Before Pearl Harbor people tried to beisolationist in their views," Eustis says, "butonce Americans had been attacked and killed therewas a strong surge of nationalism...