A Crimson poll of students and faculty members on their attitudes toward Prohibition finds that 29 percent favor repeal, a nearly equal number support rigorous enforcement, and 43 percent favor modification of the law banning the possession and consumption of alcohol. 1941 The May 5 issue of Life has a photo essay on “America’s oldest, the New World’s greatest, and the world’s richest university.” Harvard’s gravest concern, Life reports, “is that freedom to teach and discover the truth shall not die throughout the world as it has on the European continent. To this end it is meeting the challenge of national defense with the full resources of its brains and laboratories.”