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Over ten Harvard representatives are among the 865 student-delegates attending the International Student Assembly at Washington which ends its three-day session today. Delegates from 65 nations, including anti-fascist movements of Germany, Italy, and Japan are highlighted by Senior Lieutenant Liudmila Pavichenko, Russiax army girl sniper who is credited with the death of 809 Germans, and other well-known speakers...
...months than in its whole 167-year history. At Pearl Harbor alone, more U.S. sailors were killed (2,144) than in all World War I (1,233). Total U.S. losses (2,370 dead) in 80 minutes that day exceeded any of the twelve big Civil War battles except the three-day battle of Gettysburg. Said the Army and Navy Register last week: "At Antietam, called the most dreadful day in American history, the total Union loss in soldiers killed was 2,108-considerably less than the casualties at Pearl Harbor...
Freshman registration, a Memorial Hall rat-race in any year will be crowded to capacity today because of the compressing of what is usually a three-day affair into the brief space of 12 hours...
...held out "until the last moment," were no match for "lack of water, incessant bombing and greatly superior numbers." Two hospitals had only enough water to last another 24 hours. Bombings were so violent that of one group of 400 Australians only 14 men were left after a three-day attack. The enemy's numerical superiority needed no amplification. No matter how often told, or by whom related, the fall of Singapore could never be anything but an unpretty story...
Taking advantage of the three-day weekend, Harvard athletic teams will face the enemy on 19 fronts today and Monday in the heaviest scheduled weekend of sports planned this year...