![]() ![]() ![]() Students looked forward to the timeworn rituals of collegiate life: puffing pipes while kicking yellow leaves scattered along McCosh Walk, sandwiches at the “Balt,” bicker, and houseparties. When 2,432 undergraduates started the school year in September 1941, Princeton had largely bounced back from the Depression and welcomed its biggest freshman class ever, the Class of ’45. This is the story of how Princeton University responded to Pearl Harbor - and was transformed by it - as recorded in the archives and as remembered by a handful of living alumni who were there.Ībove, as about 1,000 people watched, 800 Princeton ROTC students took part in Regimental Day exercises in May 1942. The impact of that day was especially great on college campuses, crowded with draft-age men. It’s been 75 years since the attack that killed 2,403 Americans and plunged the nation into the Second World War. ![]() Farragut, Jim Benham ’39 “froze at the incredible sight,” he later recalled, and was looking at the battleship Arizona “when it blew sky-high.” He looked out his porthole and saw Japanese warplanes rocket by. 7, 1941, Francis Bell ’37, a sailor on the destroyer Phelps at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was awakened by the sound of machine-gun fire. ![]()
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