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...greatest enrollment in college history all combined to produce a large group of homeless and dissatisfied married veterans. In an effort to cope with this situation the Harvard Housing Trust instituted a strict priority system that temporarily placed veterans cut at Fort Devens or at the Hotel Branswick and gradually drew them into preferred quarters near the College. Ostensibly an inflexible program of unbiased seniority, this system was speedily replaced by a super priority list that allowed non-veteran faculty members to obtain an A-1 classification and receive prompt housing while 658 veteran students cooled their heels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Plot Sickens | 11/20/1947 | See Source »

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