The Naval Training School (Communications), last summer's Yard invaders, now fill the Freshman Halls. Their rapid turnover produced another graduation last week and the new class has just arrived.
The V-12 unit holds a peculiar place in the University lineup. They are undergraduates, they join activities, in fact, run a lot of them, and still live under Navy discipline. This group of 900 is now almost as big as the civilian College, and with their added Medical School wing actually outnumber the civvies.
Army Covers Map
The Army units are all over the map. The Army Specialized Training men in Winthrop and Leverett have been most active in College life. These students of Military Psychology and Foreign Areas and the Med Students in Boston will embrace Harvard's new school when it arrives in October. Called the AST reserve, this new bunch will be 17-year-olds, sent to college, housed and fed free, but with no pay until they get inducted. They will wear civilian clothes to classes, get some discipline, and take engineering courses.
The Army Supply Officers Training School, and the Army Air Force Statistical School are busy over in Allston, but some of them manage to get over to live at Cleverly. A rather secret group of high-ranking officers are studying Overseas Government in a school headed by Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government.
Another hodge-podge school is the Electronics group over at the physics lab. Taught by civilian physics professors under Emory L. Chafee, professor of Physics and head of Crufts lab, it has Army and Navy students, all officers. Studying hard at Radar, these men play hard according to formula. Their parties in Sanders Theatre have been hilarious high-spots this summer.
Veritas Forever
But the picture is not completely filled by servicemen and civilians tied to their books, there's some life in the old bird yet. The servicemen prove it every Saturday night when they hit town on liberty or pass. The civilians tried to prove in this week when they marched on Padcliffe "to protect the fair damsels," after Eliot Hall had been robbed and 11, girls had chipped in a total of 39 dollars to satisfy a pair of second story workers.
But as the Boston papers cried out the next day, it should be out for the war. And so it is with a lot of other things. Harvard is learning.