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Scoring in double figures for the third consecutive game, the JV baseball team defeated Quonset Point Naval Air Base 12-5 yesterday...
Herb Schreiner will pitch for the J.V. baseball squad today when the Crimson faces the Quonset Point Naval Air Base in a rescheduled game at Quonset Point...
Money speaks loudest and first, and a new center to accommodate every undergraduate organization would require both large initial expenditures and substantial maintenance costs. The Student Council is not lobbying for a quonset hut; it desires a structure to rival Massachusetts and University Halls, not to mention Burr or Lamont. The building would be imposing, and the bill would be no small part of the conspicious consumption...
...across the island at speeds of up to 156 m.p.h. breached sea walls, wrecked the Ryukyus Command building, reduced 3rd Marine Division headquarters to rubble and killed a military policeman. While Okinawa's 40,000 Americans shook inside their typhoon-proof but half-flooded houses, World War II Quonset huts were hurled into paddies and wrapped around telegraph poles. Thirty-five hours later, Okinawans found 7,000 homes and 80 public buildings totally destroyed, 27 fishing boats wrecked. Gone was 40% of the island's precious rice crop, 80% of the sweet-potato crop...
...Others predicted an inevitable lowering of academic standards. Educator Robert Hutchins declared the whole idea could be "a threat to American education." The results made a mockery of the cynics and alarmists alike. On campus after campus, whole new communities sprang up-row upon row of trailers, barracks, and Quonset huts, crammed with books, babies and as eager a crop of students as U.S. higher education had ever seen. By 1947 the ex-G.I.s comprised more than one-half of the University of Michigan's student body, nearly three-quarters of Columbia...