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Military mobilization has complicated the job-hunting efforts of the 33 percent of the class which planned to go directly into business or industry. Employers are reported reluctant to hire men who are about to be drafted, and most of the non-veteran half of '50, which averages 22.3 years old, falls into this category...
...fall of 1947, veterans had swollen University enrollment to an all-time high, had overflowed from the Houses to converted barracks at Fort Devens, and had bred 2500 babies. This baby boom worried the Hygiene Department and Cambridge pediatricians: how were student fathers, supported only by G.I. subsistence, to pay for the medical care which their children needed? The Harvard Pediatric Study has provided that care since October, 1947--free medical treatment for children of student fathers, veteran and non-veteran alike. Financed by research funds from the United States Public Health Service and the Children's Bureau, the Study...
...University's decision to start closing all its temporary homes for married veterans reemphasizes the whole problem of housing married students. On one hand, veterans' groups claim that many families will literally be left in the cold, while on the other, students point out that the University never has satisfactorily solved the housing problem for non-veteran students' families...
Although the University has always felt an obligation to provide veteran housing, it does not feel it has any like commitment to non-veteran married students. And the number of married students has not substantially decreased since the war: in some graduate schools there has actually been an increase. These families are not eligible for temporary housing, and, under law, veterans get preference in all other cases. The several University-operated permanent developments are not much help, since rents there are usually as high as those in private establishments...
United States Education Commissioner Earl James McGrath demanded a $300,000,000 a year scholarship program for 437,500 non-veteran students yesterday...