Word: influx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual report to the Board of Overseers, released yesterday, he predicted that "one of the consequences of the present influx of veterans into our colleges and universities will be . . . an increase in the numbers who desire an education beyond the high school as compared with the pre-war years. . . . Education is contagious," he said...
...addition, Spring influx of first-term and returning students, who normally put the greatest strain on available supplies, is expected to be comparatively small. University Hall predicted the arrival in February of 385 additional veterans and 198 new freshmen...
...great influx of students who would never have come here without the G.I. Bill presents the strongest threat yet to a Brahmin coolness and a decentralized social way of life that have been refined over 300 careful years. Whether a more rebust House program is feasible and whether increased facilities from the College would help, only experiment can tell. But now, painfully aware that learning can be acquired outside of textbooks as well as within, many an undergraduate is not receiving full value on his Harvard education...
Neither were any special arrangements being made to accommodate the influx of automobiles. During the game, both owners and police will "just use their judgment," said the police department representative...
...done. There is no doubt but that action to provide housing for married veteran students was tardy; in fact, it was nearly a year after V-J Day before couples were moving into their new quarters in any appreciable numbers. But now, less than two months after the greatest influx of students the University has ever known--and the consequent men--the situation is generally well in hand...