University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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ECEMBER, 1945 . . . four years since the fateful Sunday at Pearl Harbor . . . first peacetime Christmas . . .Winter loosed zero weather and snow on the campus . . . Minnesota's basketball team opened the season by blasting South Dakota State, 78-25 . . . The Music Audi- torium became Sherwood Forest as the University Theatre presented Robin I-Ioodn . . . plans were underway for the new athletic field on land vacated by removal of the women's Co-op houses near Cooke Hall . . . medical and dental units of the Navy,s training program were inactivated . . . the Army vacated part of Pioneer Hall, menls residence, for civilian occupancy winter quarter . . . a plan embodying 32,000,000 for University housing facilities went before the Board of Regents . . . the housing rider on the University appropriations bill curtailing dormitory construction was declared invalid by state Attorney General Burnquist . . . the Ag Campus held its yearly Christmas party, featuring the Little Red Oil Can and the Ball and Chain awards . . . staff members of the Bureau of Veterans' Affairs doubled in number, preparing for the anticipated deluge of veteran students . . . Dr. Lawrence M. Gould, president of Carleton College, delivered the winter quarter Commencement address.

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OVEMBER, 1945 . . . leaves departed from campus trees . . . first of the snows came . . . to a Veterans Club housing parley came Governor Thye, President Morrill, and Vice President Middlebrook . . . Coffman Memorial Union celebrated its fifth birthday in grandiose style . . . Gregor Zierner, author of the novel shown on the screen as I-Iitler's Children, rnade a convocation appearance . . . a special survey went to President Morrill on the proposed five-year engineering curricu- lum, combining engineering and liberal arts . . . on a chilly day with a raw wind Admiral William F. Halsey came to the campus on his bond selling tour, marched up The Mall between lanes of servicemen, and spoke briefly from the steps of Northrop . . . noted pianist Rudolf Serkin was guest artist with the Minneapolis Symphony . . . Minnesota took its worst licking in football history from a powerful Indiana eleven . . . the annual Foundation Ball drew crowds to the Union to hear Nat Towles' orchestra . . . sold out for weeks in advance Was violinist Fritz Kreisleras Artists Course concert . . . Campus Chest staged its annual drive for funds . . . a mild epidemic of influenza swept the campus and the Twin City area.

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ANUARY, 1946 . . . frosty breaths and cold walks to first hour classes . . . enrollment figures went over 16,000 . . . the Administration Building looked like Grand Central Station as the crowds poured in . . . campus bookstores were so crowded no one could move . . . as the com- poser sat in the audience, the Minneapolis Symphony played the first Twin Cities performance of the Morton Gould Concerto for Orchestra . . . The Minnesota Daily printed a series of feature articles on University housing conditions and actions taken to remedy the current crisis . . . Snow Week was combined with the traditional Foresters' Day to settle an argument arising from both organizations, desiring to use a Paul Bunyan theme . . . Noel Coward's Blithe Spiritw opened at the University Theatre . . . Minnesota had the largest veteran enrollment in the country for winter quarter . . . University veterans offered to erect the emergency prefabricated houses themselves as trouble brewed with Union labor . . . the five-year engineering and arts curriculum was approved, to be put into use in fall of 1946 . . . Iowa's Hawkeyes dropped Gopher basket- ballers from the unbeaten list of Big Ten teams in a 63-61 overtime game.