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Canadians are going into battle again. When & where is one facet of the Great Secret (see p. 29). But the news that Canadians will be in the vanguard of invasion is freshening and heartening to a world which needs good news...
Just one week from today, the vanguard of the Army chaplains will move into Conant and Perkins Halls to begin the 450-chaplains per month goal of the new Harvard military unit. Though these military ministers-to-be will live together, four in a room sleeping in double-decker beds, and will in all probability eat together, provisions have been made for the Catholics and Protestants to hold their services of worship apart...
...minutes after Queen Wilhelmina was scheduled to arrive, at 1:10 o'clock, the waiting throng heard a roar of motorcycles as the vanguard of the regal entourage rolled through Johnson Gate and pulled up in front of Harvard Hall. The Queen drove up in a large black White House limousine, followed by a carful of bodyguards...
...avoided by present plans. A program of simple inter-House dances, dinners, and get-togethers can do much more for Freshmen intermingling than elaborate but delayed planning. Such a program should be launched in the early days of the term. Perhaps it is already too late to integrate the vanguard of the Class of '46 but paper work must be scrapped for an intensive program of weekly or bi-weekly Freshman affairs in the fall...
...figures aren't in yet. Many filling stations have not turned in any of their rubber, and junk dealers have not made reports on their collections. Nevertheless, the western states have shown what can be done in this drive. California, Montana, and Nevada are in the vanguard in the west. Nevada, with a population almost exactly the size of Cambridge, has collected 653 tons, or 11.87 pounds per capita. There may have been a few more broken-down Model T's in Nevada, but otherwise there is no real reason why Cambridge shouldn't rustle up 600 tons as well...