"I think most of us loved Radcliffe because it gave us a glimpse of how the world could be for women," Wallach says.
With the return of students to Harvard, they could once again enjoy the social pleasures that had been denied them during the war. By the time the '49ers were getting ready to graduate, dances, masquerades, and other fun events began making a comeback.
In 1945, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals put on "The Proof of the Pudding," their first show after America entered the war, and other student activities were resurrected as the class made its way through the college.
As time went by, memories of Hitler's Germany, the atomic bomb and wartime rationing faded from memory. The '49ers studied, played House football and attended dances. With the Class of 1949, Harvard put WWII firmly in the past.