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...increase in enrollment due to the GI Billin the late 1940s marked a permanent shift inHarvard admissions. The pre-war norm of 3,500 wasforever discarded and enrollment consistentlyremained above...
...GI Bill turned higher education from afairly genteel and elite fare relevant for a smallminority into mass education," says ThomasProfessor of Government and of Sociology ThedaSkocpol...
...help from the University and alot of help from the GI Bill," he says. "If notfor the GI Bill I wouldn't have even been able tothink about Harvard...
Fifty years later, Goodman is still gratefulfor the opportunities the GI Bill made possible."It was one of the greatest things this governmentever did," he says...
Unlike Goodman, Herbert R. Waite '49 hadalready enrolled in Harvard before serving in themilitary, but he also credits the GI Bill forallowing him to complete his final three years ofschool...