Where the News Ends

...Meanwhile the colleges, on s reduced basis, carry on some of their former activities...

...The results of its German and Italian language courses were generally recognized as excellent...

...An ASTP unit of approximately equal size, composed partly of engineers, partly of students specializing in language and area study was suddenly ordered away from the college when the War Department decided last March to eliminate this program, with a very few exceptions...

...100 chaplains are getting preliminary training, including a good deal of marching and drilling, under the auspices of Harvard...

...The campus suddenly became very quiet again and the, persons responsible for the financial management of the college were faced with some difficult questions...

...For a time its pleasant and normally rather placid campus was overrun with marching men in uniform...

...So far as can be foreseen Haverford and colleges of a similar type will be forced to carry on for the duration with students under eighteen and a sprinkling ol 4Ks, or men rejected by the armed services because of physical disability...

...if I may venture to paraphrase Winston Churchill, m order to preside over its dissolution...

...With a faculty of high calibre and library and laboratory resources that are above the average for a small college Haverford was well qualified to give effective training to the various military units which were stationed there...

...and a member of ita delegation waa a charming young Polixh woman...

...At that time the Harvard Law School, one of the most famous in the country, had 102 students, as against 1,249 in normal times...

...It is a pity that aarh simple and direct methods are not likely to influence the settlement of the actual dispute...

...At least a minority of the men in the armed forces have been exposed to courses in the recent history, government snd economics of foreign countries that are far superior to the hasty propaganda improvisations of the last war...

...Because of its size, reputation and technical facilities llaivard has fared rather well in the matter of military replacements for its civilian students...

...The number of the latter has, of course, been cut to the bone...

...With the present intense pressure to gel every ablebodied young man between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six into the armed forces, college dormitories and lecture ball.- have been steadily thinned...

...There were two rather amusing incidents at a students' model "league of nations...

...TMtK mi nation at Haverford was complicated by the Quaker background and traditions of the college...

...So I have been able to observe at fairly close range the vicissitudes of academic adjustment to war conditions...

...A Pie-Meteorology unit of about two hundred military students completed its year of training anil was not replaced...

...I had net come te Haverford...

...but the' civilian student enrollment has been cut down to batcly a hundred, with the army combing these for eighteenyear-olds...

...In the undergraduate courses and in the special and graduate schools the number of students, as of January 1, 1944, waa less than two thousand, as against eight thousand in pre-war limes...

...Furthermore the primped of seeing Hsverford become moribund, with the strong possibility that it could not later recover from thst condition, wss one thst I wss unwilling to contemplate in my ¦ ¦iraiitv as President of the College...

...What has always been a deficiency in American higher education, a lack of outside intellectual interests that are not linked up with study credits, sill, one fears, become aggravated...

...The Latin proverb, "inter anno lege* eileiit" seemed to be Andiug Application...

...There may be some compensating advantages...

...T"IIK' disruption of higher education by the war has obviously brought serious cultural losses, especially in the • humanistic studies...

...The Army and Navy students who now predominate in the Harvard Yard and in the streets of Cambridge fall into several categories...

...After ahe bad turned her charm on the students who represented, in theory, the Soviet Union, the Soviet-Polish dispute wan settled on terms very fsverable te Poland, including a plebiscite under Anglo-American a as picea in the disputed territory...

...But recently the surplus of students has been abruptly transformed into a deficit...

...lliiring the past academic year I have been lecturing at the Harvard School for Overseas Administration and at llaverford College...

...There are very secret courses in electronics and radar, where even the number of students is not divulged...

...American youth has never been so hard at work studying foreign languages...

...Almost a thousand naval cadets are taking their basic training at Harvard, with about the same number of A SIT (Army Specialized Training Program) students...

...recently held at Bryn Mawr College, near Philadelphia...

...It speaks highly for the resourcefulness and resilience of American institutions of higliei education that most of them, large and small, have succeeded in keeping their doors open...

...The President, Felix Morley, defined his position in the following terms: "It became steadily more apparent lhat the College must either give aciive cooperation in the war efert or be prepared to cloae its doors...

...lt« dormitory ami diningroom facilities, designed for a normal atudent body of three hundred e,nd fifty, were overtaxed...

...A professor in one of the graduate schools remarked half humorously: "We are so short of students that if someone walked in and identified himself as John Jones, with a BA degree from FreshwsterCollege...

...A rush army or navy Specialized nurse is obviously not calculated to develop a cultivator and highly trained mind...

...However, confronted with the alternative of accepting military units for training or of closing its doors it preferred the former alternative...

...In many cases this would have been impossible if special .training courses fin the "JWmy, Navy and Air Force hail not been established...

...The implications of geography are being better realized...

...I should probsbly accept him without further examination...

...Student sentiment was" strongly for an international police force, with all necessary abrogations of sovereignty...

...But Haverford's experience indicates that a willingness to cooperate does uol necessarily eliminate the difficulties which the men's liberal arts college must expect to encounter in s period of total war...

...Students in uniform, subject to military discipline, have replaced the carefree youths who formerly turned out for fraternity dances and yelled themselves hoarse when the football team drove through to the final victorious touchdown in the "big game" of the season...

...Some of the latter, enrolled in the School for Overseas Administration, are atudying Chinese and Japanese, and taking courses in the history, geography, and government of Oriental countries, with a view to later service in this part of the world...

...As an institution clearly.'affected with a public interest' snd scceptiag tax-exemplion on that basis, it seemed to me thst Hsverford wsa under strong abligstion to extend such cooperation, much as I had personally regretted our participation ia the war...

...When the representative of the United States refused to go along with this plan, on the ground that Congress would not endorse it, tha United States was indignantly read out of the league by the ardent young internationalist...

...Each of the participating colleges played the role of a nation...

...A small unit of pre-medical students, about thirty-five or forty in number, is stationed at Haverford...

...Peland was represented by Rosemont, a girla' college...