Word: pre-war
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Both faculty and students seem to have absorbed a large measure of this spirit. When a popular Cornell faculty member, Marcus Singer, was cited for contempt by a Congressional committee for refusing to name his associates in a pre-war Marxist study group at Harvard, both faculty and student groups defended him. The faculty of Arts and Sciences unanimously expressed its faith in his loyalty and the Student Council added its support for his moral position...
...since pre-war football has a Crimson eleven beaten a Cornell team, and this afternoon's encounter seems unlikely to change the pattern. Cornell's four horsemen--the four who high-stepped their team to an Ivy League Championship last year--are out of the infirmary, and the inexperienced line has ripened through two games so that the Red Raiders are in relatively good form...
...University lacks an intelligently organized film series. Past experience shows a great demand for the pre-war films that were significant in the advancement of motion picture technique. Besides having great entertainment value, they are certainly educational. And because commercial exhibitors consider them of little value, they are cheaply available on 16 millimeter. Ivy Films could easily organize such a film series that would stay within the tax laws, yet attract enough of an audience to cover expenses...
Emerson added that the slightly decreased number of applicants is indicative of a gradual leveling off of interest after the unusually great enthusiasm for study in medicine following World War II. He noted that interest in medicine is still 50 percent greater than it was in the pre-war period...
...Pre-War Number Tripled...