Word: pre-war
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...entering today, Harvard will at first be a dreary round of lectures and reading notes. Harvard's summer term, 1945, will be the most abnormal period the University has experienced in many decades, for it marks the transition from a three-term, round-the-year calendar back to a pre-war system...
...Harvardman of a pre-war day might have written in his dairy at the end of an average day: "Up betimes at noon; Luncheon at the Signet; a drive in the country with Miss Robbins dinner at the Cock Horse; opening at the Shubert beastly dull; drinks at the Ritz bar, and so to bed." Summer '49 will duly inscribe: "Up at eight for breakfast; thence to Bio D, from there to Ec A, and finally to Dr. Finer's Gov 1 lecture; lunch in the House; sculling on the Charles most of the afternoon; dinner in the House; studied...
Harvard is still very much at war, and military and naval personnel continue to exceed the University's civilian population. But many signs in the past year pointed an approach to pre-war standards. It was a year, for example, in which the percentage of veterans in the undergraduate population showed a sharp rise...
...war-deadened French Riviera, pre-war Europe's smartest playspot for the international set, has come back to life as the "United States Riviera Rest Area" for war-weary U.S. soldiers. The Sixth Army Group started the revival last October. By last week, 6,000 G.I.s a week were flocking into 42 luxury hotels near the sunny sands at Nice. Shortening U.S.R.R.A. to "Heaven," they pronounced it the best thing the U.S. Army ever...
...colored pencils and colors, we wonder if Professor Merlam couldn't be using a brushful or two on those fantastic neckties of his. It also comes to our mind that he may one day suffer a stroke from the heat of his newest arrival a multi-colored gem of pre-war days...