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...applies can expect to be taken into one of the Houses next fall, Associate Dean Robert B. Watson '37 announced yesterday. As a result, the University next year plans to close down Claverly, Apley and the fifth floor of Dudley, which in the past have accommodated the housing overflow...
...outhouses"--Claverly, Apley, and Dudley--will likely be put in moth balls first, since they are expensive, hard to maintain and unpopular with students. They are now used for the sophomore overflow from the Houses, and for those expelled from the Houses...
...Overflow crowds at Emerson were told at 3:20 p.m. by Lowell P. Beveridge '52, president of the left-wing group, that Robeson would begin his talk on "The Liberation of the American Negro" at 4:45. The Progressives had been told that the plane would arrive at 4:10, but there was no such flight, only one scheduled to arrive...
Immediately after Pearl Harbor the University announced that is was delaying all immediate plans for changes, saying that it would await Washington developments. President Conant, in an address to an overflow crowd in Sanders Theatre on December 8, pledged full University co-operation in the war effort, and urged calmness and deliberation in advising all students to "examine the situation carefully and then decide how best they can serve their country...
Pleasantly flustered, Robert Alphonso Taft looked out over the ballroom in the Sherman Hotel and guessed that he "was getting more notorious than that great Chicago citizen, Al Capone." Some 1,500 Executives Club businessmen cheered lustily. In distant banquet rooms, an overflow 1,000 listened by public-address system. Senator Taft, arriving in Chicago for the first time since his November triumph, had pulled the biggest turnout of any lunch-club speaker in recent memory...