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...administration and the faculty of the University had, in most cases, done their utmost to facilitate and ease his reconversion problems. Queueing for an education was a novelty for the college but no new matter for him after the past years. Harvard 'quarters' were still infinitely preferable to the GI variety. He had very few grounds for complaint...
With the addition of 16 awards to the normal complement, a plan to continue GI subsidies for exchange scholars, and an allowance of *100 in addition to the regular *400 stipend for civilian students Rhodes Scholarships this year and next provide an enlarged opportunity for American undergraduates. Total number of awards for 1946 and 1947 now stands at 48 apiece...
Yesterday's workout at Soldiers Field was another of the informal sessions that assistant coach Chief Boston has been conducting throughout the summer term, primarily intended to take some of the excess GI weight from undergraduates who will figure in Harlow's plans for the fall. The Boss had an opportunity to get a brief look at some of the players he had never seen before in person...
Along with yesterday's showers came equally refreshing news to University veterans in an announcement that the Senate and House have passed a $2,431,000,000 GI terminal leave pay bill and sent it to the White House. President Truman is expected to sign...
More than half of the 48 students enrolled, the largest number in the ten-year history of the program, are veterans studying under the GI Bill of Rights. Whitehead notes that whereas ordinary classes of past years were evenly divided between college students and working girls, eighty per cent of the present group "have had a wide view of life...