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The Press: Harvard 2, Princeton 0

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TIME

Like their big-league brothers, college newspapers suffer from war-induced manpower shortages, advertising losses. Two college papers last week had met the problem in different ways: >With their regular undergraduate audience dwindling, the Harvard Crimson editors announced that they will publish a free weekly, as yet unnamed, for the 4,000-odd servicemen now taking short courses at Harvard. In it they hope to get enough advertising to keep the Crimson going.

>The Daily Princetonian suspended publication for the duration. Required by war to attend physical conditioning classes thrice weekly and generally to hurry up their educations, the “Prince’s” 38 editorial department men and the eleven business side men had little time left for extracurricular journalism. Once before (in World War I) the lively, crusading “Prince” suspended, came back strong as ever.

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