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Lydia H. deRoth, a former air-raid warden in England now working for the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, will address the College on July 8 on protection from enemy assault upon civilians. On July 15 Conservation of consumer goods, savings of scrap, and intelligent buying under a system of scarcity will be the subject discussed...
Civilian defense hit home at Harvard on October 7, when President Conant announced the formation of a Committee under the chairmanship of Professor Donald Scott '00 to organize an A. R. P. system. By the end of the year, the University had a fairly smooth-working system under Chief Warden Aldrich Durant '02, 600 trained wardens, an auxiliary fire and auxiliary police service, fire watchers in the House towers, airplane spotters, and first aid experts. Blackout paint and curtains were installed, and liberal quantities of sand, stirrup pumps, and other equipment supplied...
...March 5, Cambridge blacked-out, and students saw to it that Harvard was "perfectly" darkened, according to Chief Air Raid Warden Aldrich Durant. Two months later came the dim-out, as the Square was grayed, and students were asked to draw their shades, to comply with the Army's orders...
...meantime the best contribution that all of us whose rooms or offices are equipped with shades can make, is to keep them down when our lights are on, as requested by the Civilian Defense Authorities. Aldrich Durant, District Warden, Harvard...
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...