University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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.

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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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Ai ,I 1 l ARCH, 1946 . . . first tokens of spring . . . a robin . . . passing of the snow . . . unusually warm days . . . Tony Iaros came within one point of the conference scoring championship as the Minnesota bas- ketball team closed an up-and-down season with a win over Wisconsin . . . the Minneapolis Symphony returned from its tour . . . campus poli- tical conversation buzzed with talk of the Commonwealth-Progressive party fusion . . . an all coed election gave YWCA and AWS 26 new members . . . Dean of Students E. G. Williamson was given a citation for his work with the armed forces institute . . . Gopher baseball candi- dates started field house drills . . . construction on the new mechanical- aeronautical engineering building was delayed because of shortages of material . . . Glider NX24193, designed and built in the aeronautical engineering department, was ready for tests . . . a study course for vet- erans having academic diiliculty was announced . . . the field house was jammed for three days as capacity crowds watched the state high school basketball tournament, won by Austin high school . . . shirtsleeves were rolled up during the latter part of March as the thermometer shot into the seventies . . . winter quarter ended, and the spring quarter rush began.