University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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.

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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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EBRUARY, 1946 . . . middle of winter . . . two holidays from class in one month . . . publicity came out on the Universitys experi- ments with heavy carbon, a phase of postwar atomic research . . . Religious Emphasis Week stressed racial tolerance in its programs . . . trailers for veterans began to arrive at the Como avenue housing site . . . reconstruction of the atom smasher beside the Physics Building was started . . . discussion commenced on the Student Bill of Rights for campus activities . . . Uni- versity authorities announced a limiting of non-resident enrollment be- ginning spring quarter as predicted registration figures for spring soared higher and higher . . . the Navy graduated 190 men from its training programs here . . . anti-Nazi editor Gerhart Seger gave a Report from Nuernbergn to a convocation audience . . . a 25 per cent pay increase was asked by Minnesota professors . . . construction of the Como avenue prefabricated houses got under Way . . . the Center for Continuation Study offered short medical courses to doctors returning from service . . . the University Housing Bureau began new procedures designed to cope with problems brought by increasing enrollment.