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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...
...itself, President Conant noted that it had no less than 28 research contracts with the government on subjects "essentially of a non-military nature." Furthermore, he pointed out that an enrollment of 12,000 students, 75 percent of whom are veterans, has raised enrollment to 150 percent of its pre-war level. The report on the college was chiefly devoted to the General Education courses and their organization...
With both the Crimson and the Lampoon back to a pre-war basis, the most notable lack in the field of undergraduate publications continues to be the Advocate. Although many difficulties have attended the efforts of the mother of all Harvard publications to resume operation, her continued absence, a year and a half after the end of the war, is inexcusable and a disgrace to those responsible...
...College today eager to work on a literary magazine, just as there are at countless colleges throughout the country, many of which are smaller than Harvard. The building space in the Advocate building is now available and certainly the paying of any debt incurred by the pre-war Advocate could mean no more than a slight reduction in the income taxes of the magazine's trustees...
Lack of the respiratory disease epidemics which have cropped up in other years has diminished the immediate need for extra space, added Dr. Bock, observing that the list of winter illnesses is less than 40 per cent of the pre-war rate. An average day sees 35 students in residence at the Infirmary...