Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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' x 4- X x nfs The much-disporciged Mem Holl looks over all the University. At lower right: 'Poon president ond winner ot the much- publicized beauty contest. coach. Varsity beaten by Dartmouth before 45,000. Bounce back to defeat Holy Cross 20 to 13. NOVEMBER, 1948 Straw vote puts Dewey well ahead in University. Truman wins. Language pro abolished by faculty de- cision. Tigers chill Crimson 7 to 47. Brown expels pre-game Yard daubers. Varsity teamwork spills powerful, favored Bruins, 30 to 19. Yale game multi- tude clogs hotels, restaurants and theatres as Stadium is sold out. Bulldogs beaten 20 to 7. Howard Houston chosen to head '49-'50 varsity. 'lx ,- ,. Y: Uv-M x

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ary degrees as record-breaking 2738 men receive diplomas. Varsity breaks record as crews sweep Yale. SEPTEMBER, 1948 4,205 re ister to jam College, as Indoor Athletic 8 Building becomes temporary home for 200 freshmen. University raises fall board rate to 812.25 a Week. William Bentinck-Smith's Harvard Alumni Bulletin picked as tops in its field out of a group of 142 alumni magazines. Ticket gouging upsets new stadium seat- ing program. OCTOBER, 1948 Crimson outslugs Columbia 33 to 24. Conant criti- cizes draft bill as unfair, in opposition to full 1m- munity for college students. Saltonstall-led memorial committee drops former plans, urges 860,000 plaque for University's World War II dead-activities center tossed overboard. Cornell splatters varsity 6 to 40. Gordon Fair named new Dunster House Master to replace Haring. Student Council protests committee l. Heads of alumni association decision on War memoria Okay selection of plaque in spite of undergraduate pro- tests. Varsity bows to Army 7 to 20 in a hard-fought, brilliant game. Stuffy Mclnnis named baseball At upper left: Henry WaIIace's speech in the tall of 1947 stirred much divided opinion. Below: it all started with a little harmless land meaninglessi agitation-but the Yard Cop didn't seem to get the joke.

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The dirt and disorder ofa rain soaked Harvard Square suffers in contrast to Memorial Chapel-a few hundred yards and a few hundred years away. DECEMBER, 1948 Local business group maps plan to streamline Har- vard Square. Cam installed as first woman professor. College poll shows slight majority of undergraduates against blanket draft exemption for students. Swim- mers trim M.I.T. 59-16, lose one race. JANUARY, 1949 Lamont Library makes debut, sets new mark in functional design. 7,200 swarm in for first-day look. Academic probation abolished for juniors and seniors. Class of '49 names William J. Richard, Jr., First Mar- shal, Dan Ray and Dwight Nishimura Second and Third. Sextet wallops Dartmouth 8 to 5 in big upset at Hanover. Boyleston Professor Theodore Spencer dies of heart attack. WI-IRV holds longest musical orgy -207 hours of continuous broadcasting.