Word: robart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John M. Potter '26, former Harvard assistant professor and special side in the Office of Strategic Services, has been named president of Robart and William Smith College. He will commence his duties at Geneva, New York, on September...
Describing dimout conditions in Cambridge as 99 percent complete, Major Ralph W. Robart, chief local air raid warden, said yesterday that "if this dimout effort is ineffective, the Army will be forced to order a full blackout for the duration...
...slogan for the blackout seems to be "business as usual." In a final statement to the residents of Cambridge, Major Ralph W. Robart, Chief Air Raid Warden, asked that "everyone carry on life and business as near usual as is possible during the blackout...
Supplementing Major Robart's statements were several dictums issued by Dean Hanford and Aldrich Durant, chief warden of the Harvard District, calling for cooperation from the student body and adding that any student found seriously hindering the blackout "may have his connection with the University dishonorably severed...
...particularly unsuccessful in the Yard because not one of the 400 Wardens was to be found during the raid, which lasted from 3 until 5 o'clock. 34 incidents occurred in the entire city, and Harvard's share of these was peculiarly neglected by those responsible, said Major Robart...