Word: pre-war
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...have developed the same desire to achieve a student body that is geographically representative as well. Provost Buck framed the problem as early as 1946: "What is not obvious to outsiders--and even to many very close to the situation as as it existed in the pre-war years--is the paucity of applicants of the kind we most desire...
Whatever the reasons, Harvard simply had not geared itself to the surge of alumni activity by other colleges, and it even found itself facing possible loss of its pre-war balance. The Provost 1946-47 Bulletin articles pointed to the fact that many, many applications were "running to type," and he warned...
...owners of Apthorp sold out to the University. The old mansion then became a college dormitory under the name of Apthorp House. "It was for many years the dormitory for students coming from St. George's School at Newport, a school which furnished most of Harvard's pre-war athletes." This was very unfortunate for the St. George Boys. Because Apthrop's large windows were perfect targets, the inmates of Randolph Hall used to break them with snowballs in the winter and rocks in the spring. By the time Adams House was formed, Apthorp was a wreck...
...symptoms are and where to go for treatment. The ratio of doctors is admittedly poor. So is our individual output. This is not due to the present government, but to thousands of years of feudalism and one hundred years of Imperialism. Our railway milege now exceeds that of pre-war China...
Memories of pre-war days influenced the design of the circular trays, Heaman reported. During that period students ate off plates and were served by waitresses. The high cost of labor and food makes a return to those days impossible...