Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The man who juked it up was Dr. Stephen E. Epler, first heard from as the inventor of six-man football.* An energetic young (36) Navy veteran, he had been made counselor on veterans' education in Oregon. He found a home for himself at Vanport, began mulling how to...
To make up for men who missed out by going to war, Columbia will handle 750 law students each year, but hopes to cut back to its normal quota of 500 by 1951. Even with an expanded enrollment, the law school must reject hundreds of applicants. Before the war, Columbia...
Some soldiers overstayed their leaves, and in the rickety brick barracks that served as Lichfield's guardhouse, they spent anywhere from two weeks to six months as penalty for various periods of AWOL. Behind barred windows, overcrowded to such an extent that some of the inmates slept on top of...
To Fischer's surprise, he found that the Ukraine has something like a free labor market. Men on the slow, overcrowded trains often said they were going to Odessa or elsewhere to look for better jobs. City shops had Help Wanted signs; newspapers carried Help Wanted ads. Like the...
An activities center of the type so successfully employed at other institutions is sorely needed at Harvard. The fact that close to 75 percent of the men in the College take no part in extra-curricular activities may in large part be attributed to the lack of facilities and encouragement...