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...eleven hundred-odd men who are expected to file through Memorial Hall today the College will conclude the major part of its preliminary activity for what is to be the last regular Summer Session--for some years at least. Hereafter the June to September ratrace will revert to its pre-war form in which it was chiefly an opportunity for spinsterish school marms to sip a few heady draughts from a traditionally masculine fountain of knowledge...
Still, although much of the pre-war hoopla will be missing, there will be tradition to spare. H. S. Payson Rowe, Vice-President of the New England Division of the Associated Harvard Clubs and Reunion Chairman, has had charge of class committees which have been working for several years planning today's 25th Reunion...
Next fall most of the Freshmen will come directly from prep or high schools. Future classes will be more and more molded in the patter of the pre-war Harvard. This is a mixed blessing, for the veteran student has been a boon to Harvard. He has brought it maturity, seriousness of purpose, and greater diversity. As it begins to "return to normaley" the College should strive to retain for future classes those elements which have reduced the crowding and the chow lines of the past year to the vel of of petty grievances...
Provost Buck, in an announcement made earlier this year after Yale College tuition was boosted to $600 per year, stated that tuition for undergraduates would remain at the pre-war $400 figure in 1947-48, and that every effort was being made to raise funds by other means than an additional financial burden on the College student...
...follow, will have to take Divisional examinations, tutorial or no. The Department's action is striking because it brings home one unpleasant consequence of the trend away from tutorial: non-honors candidates graduated by the Department will from now on not be expected to know as much as their pre-war counterparts...