Classes Proceed as Usual Today With V-E Service Still Indefinite

A Boston Record report that "all classes at Harvard and Radcliffe will be dismissed as soon as V-E Day is proclaimed" was categorically denied by University officials late last night. At press time, authoritative announcement of V-E Day had still not come through, and officers of the University said today's classes would not be cancelled.

It was affirmed, however, that upon receipt of President Truman's proclamation a religious service would be held at a time to be announced some time today, and that classes would be dismissed during the time of the service. Official Harvard observance of the end of the European war would be short and solemn, it was indicated.

Final details of the service could not be released last night, but announcement of the time for the observance will be made on the CRIMSON bulletin board, in classes, on House bulletin boards, and probably over the Navy public address system in the Yard.

President Conant said earlier yesterday that he would not address the V-E Day observant, nor would there be anything comparable to the Sander Theatre mass rally that followed the Pearl Harbor attack. President Conant emphasized that the war was not over.

Wire services last night added nothing to previous reports except to say that President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill will go on the air this morning at 9 o'clock, presumably to proclaim the end of the war against Germany. Men in the field are still fighting, it was said.