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Brothers College staggered toward closure as Hitler's troops swaggered across Europe and Japanese ships controlled the Pacific Ocean. World War II offered no hideout for students; the long arm of the draft boards reached everywhere. By the summer of 1942, with the drainage of men painfully evident on campus, the editor of the Alumnus, with more bravado than brains, boasted that, "nobody's talking about women /in the college/; not until the last man dies."
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