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...Quonset Huts at Yale...
...Quonset huts, which the University has so far managed to avoid in favor of the more satisfactory FPHA units, will bear the burden of Yale's load of married students. An even 100 of these huts, housing 200 families, will reportedly be ready for occupancy at the end of their current term, while such space as that in Ray Tompkins House of the Yale A. A. normally used to house visiting athletic teams, is slated to be utilized in the emergency, by single students, for whom Yale is also attempting to obtain Army barracks...
Hidden expenses for temporary housing will drop out when the University has to tear down the six-family units already erected and proposed Quonset huts, in accordance with city ordinances, Reynolds stated...
Initial expenses on the various University housing projects are as follows: six-apartment units already set up, $140,000; 40 two-family Quonset huts already applied for, $60,000 (for installation only); Hotel Brunswick $30,000 (with an additional $25,000 to $50,000 operating expenses); and further renovating costs for odd single houses which have been bought up to be used on a cooperative housekeeping basis...
...Quonset Huts, if allotted to the University, will be erected on University lands in Cambridge and Boston, unspecified as yet. They will be two-family structures, presumably similar to those in use at Yale, and will add to the other various costs involved in activities dealing strictly with veterans, ontailing a total expense of close to $1,000,000 by the University during the next three or four years...