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...trend was away from the wartime emphasis on the natural sciences, as all but these showed greatly increased enrollments. Economics A swelled from a prewar 1940 total of 512 to a new high of 1,092 to retain its position as the largest elective course in the college...
Last week S.A.S. began a new term and a new life, under a new principal. The job of restoring S.A.S to its prewar heights had fallen to Peking-born Thomas C. Gibb, 36, son and grandson of U.S. missionaries, who taught English there before Pearl Harbor, has since been the acting dean of Haverford College. Finding a student body is the least of Gibb's worries. His worst headaches: locating books, desks and beds in supply-shy China; drumming up a faculty...
John Harvard, veteran, has reason to wonder at the palace on the Charles these days. Prewar registration days were a far cry from the maddening crowd that thundered through Memorial Hall on the first leg of their pursuit of a formal education. Course attendance ballooned to new levels as cozy discussion courses became monstrous lecture courses. House dining halls continued to look like Army mess halls. Laundry salesmen and cleaning contractors, once frenetic in their hunt for prospects, assumed an unbecoming coyness. As for getting books, John found texts unobtainable and the lines interminable. In fact, John found lines everywhere...
...within the university, the atmosphere is different. One of the best things about prewar Harvard was its sense of leisure, the conception of "education over the breakfast table," the notion that by the unhurried exchange of good conversation and ideas with his fellows a man could learn much that he would never get out of books. Now Cambridge is gripped by urgency, a hurried and un-Harvardlike anxiety to make up for lost time...
...good will were busy with two wishful new publications. They hoped that their magazines might help prevent the postwar world from turning into a prewar world. One would plug federal union as the way to peace; the other...