Caps and Gowns at Graduation Rites
an early issue announced, summing up the entire mood of Harvard at the time. But would the civilian Crimson have ever called Commencement "Graduation"?
Fifty Freshmen to Register:
49 Mil Sci Three Men Return
another story told.
Although The Crimson of 1942 had editorially inveighed against the scandalous treatment of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor, the Service News had fewer scruples.
Japs Planned Death of
Grew, Charlie Chaplin
read the headline of a story on Ambassador Grew's allegations. A group of insidious Japanese had planned to assassinate him, and kill the great comedian as well during Grew's term in Tokyo in the mid-Thirties. At least Grew believed it, and the Service News believed Grew. Next month, Harvard awarded Grew the only honorary degree it gave in 1943.
"To him a Nip in the trees is a notch in his gun." This line, an advertising slogan for the Camel cigarette people, appeared more than once in the Service News.
Copy of this kind was one good reason the Graduate Board had decided not to empower the Service News to editorialize. Instead, the paper was administered during the war by a board of David M. Little '18, Master of Adams House and Secretary of the University. Mrs. Anna Hoke, the paper's accountant, Donald T. Field '31, and Thomas S. Kuhn '44. These four oversaw a rotating, uneven, erratic staff which sometimes amounted only to Mrs. Hoke and Art Hopkins, as they turned out first a weekly, and later a semi-weekly from The Crimson's quarters. For once, the paper did not have to seek for advertising; J. Press, Filene's Leopold Morse, and a dozen others took large constant ads to announce themselves as official suppliers of uniforms to the Army, Navy, Waves, and practically every conceivable outfit in the Service. Some news of Harvard crept in, and, as the war neared an end. Harvard news took an equal share of the paper. Twice, the Service News announced the birthdays of Charles Townsend Copeland, his eighty-fourth and eighty-fifth, once announcing Copey as a "Champion Survivor", and twice describing his intention to see the war through.