Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Mokeshift quarters in the Indoor Athletic Building. beaten 21 to 13. Lehman Hall announces no imme- diate plans to return to waitress system in House dining halls. Team slaughters Coast Guard Academy 25 to 0. NOVEMBER, 1945 Undergraduates protest non-participation as faculty passes basic educational reforms outlined in the Gen- eral Education report. Kings Point beaten 28 to 7. John Chase returns as hockey coach. Varsity takes Brown 14 to 7. Grant received for new library build- ing. Robert Benchley dies in New York. Boston Uni- versity massacred 60 to 0. Yale wins 28 to 0. Harlow named president of American Football Coaches Asso- ciation. DECEMBER, 1945 Student group chosen to help select site for Lamont Library. Hutchins terms General Education Report

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schedule to include three games against other colleges and four against service teams. VICTORY IN JAPAN. Leighton says College confident that there will be sufficient room in the Houses for incoming vets of the near future. Brown beats Crimson 3 to 2. SEPTEMBER, 1945 Second installment of the Class, '49b, enters Col- lege. Registration reaches 1383 as first peacetime term begins. H.A.A. announces Bill Bingham's re- lease from the Army. Harvard-Radcliffe Freshman teas resumed at Brooks House, blond Chicagoan Carol Jones named Miss 1949 by Service News. General Education committee calls for modification of elective curricular system. OCTOBER, 1945 Tufts beats Crimson in football opener. Buck appointed Provost of the University, Bailey named Secretary to the Corporation. University of Rochester . . . last name, first name, middle initial, last name, first name, middle initial . . .

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Too little, too late. Norman Poser named Chairman of the 1949 Redbook Staff. Student Council elects Thomas O'Donnell president, Harper secretary, Ellis treasurer. The Proof of the Pudding, first Pudding show since 1941, presented in Cambridge. H.A.A. announces return of Tom Bolles from three years' service with the Navy. JANUARY, 1946 Roomhunters storm newly-opened Housing Office in search for scarce apartments, five vacancies, 100 applicants. New Masses calls General Education Re- port plot of the imperialistic bourgeoisie. Varsity basketball team beats Yale 39 to 37 in a brilliant second half comeback. Council announces indorse- ment of a student activities center as a war memorial. Quincy Street site chosen for Lamont Library. Robert B. Watson appointed Associate Dean of the College. FEBRUARY, 1946 Third segment of Class of 1949 registers as total College enrollment swells to 3000, University enroll- ment to 7000. Provost Buck announces joint instruc- tion in advanced courses here to stay. Housemasters decide to ban interhouse diningg student council acts to determine cause, Housemasters finally rescind ban after a week of agitation. MARCH, 1946 Basketball team accepts bid to play in N.C.A.A. Eastern finals in Madison Square Garden. Class of '49 elects 10-man Class Committee to organize jubilee and put out Redbook. Council sees tutorial in danger, claims faculty undermining plan. University an- nounces formation of Social Relations Department to be headed by Talcott Parsons. 900 crowd into New Lecture Hall to hear Auden recite his own poetry. Ohio State defeats varsity quintet, 46-38, in semi-finals at Madison Square Garden. APRIL, 1946 Durant announces room rent increase to meet inflationary rise of 30 per cent. Crimson reborn as The problems of the returning veterans were not so bad as expected, but there were some. Above, classes that used to fit into Sever ll had to move to New Lecture Hall. Center, books were paid for by the government, but it wasn't painless getting them. Below, places to live were not always easy t0 come by either-a scene in the Straus l-lall housing office. 10