For the summer installment of the Class of 1949, entering today, Harvard will at first be a dreary round of lectures and reading notes. Harvard's summer term, 1945, will be the most abnormal period the University has experienced in many decades, for it marks the transition from a three-term, round-the-year calendar back to a pre-war system.

Harvard will be almost exclusively for Freshmen this summer, and that's what makes the abbreviated nine-week term most strikingly abnormal. Except for the SERVICE NEWS and the Summer Chorus, all undergraduate organizations will be dormant, according to present indications. What's more, Radcliffe, Wellesley, and most other institutionalized sources of feminine companionship are out of session; and good little boys keeps away from the banks of the River Charles after curfew.

Not Summer School

Strictly speaking, the nine-week summer season is unprecedented. The Harvard Summer School, like the University, is the oldest in the country; but the Summer School had its last term in the summer of 1942, and the College proper, something quite different from the Summer School, has been calling the true every summer, since and will again this summer.

Except for the dearth of women and upperclassmen, however, 1945's summer session will have a few things in common with the old Summer School; it will have primarily, the heat; it will have concentrated courses, meeting in most cases combat operations. He cited the history of the CATS experiences, pointing to the unpreparedness and mismanagement before and during the North African campaign. "But after Sicily, where the CATS were viewed at first with skepticism and later with gratification and even enthusiasm, the Civil Affairs officers have become very much in demand," General Bryan continued