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...Quonset huts and many of the more substantial installations have been pulled down and carried away to Panama. The broad macadamized fighter strip is now abandoned, and only our three visiting B-17s are visible beside the longer main strip. Soon there may be only the caretakers left. Dull, drab Seymour Island may shortly revert to the goats, and the archipelago itself to the naturalists...
This week, 312 Army dependents arrived to join the Navy wives in roughing it. For high-ranking officers' families, there would be mansions commandeered from the Japanese; for others, apartments. For most of the junior officers and enlisted men there would be Quonset huts, most of them without kitchen or bath. GHQ was ready with pick-up and delivery laundry service and ice delivery for staff officers' families...
...Harvard could not be completed in time to ease the September squeeze. Now University Hall must scramble to avert tragedy with all the means it can beg, brow or steal over the summer. It is also too late to fret over the eyesore quality of a colony of Quonset huts. The alternative picture of a family of three living in one room is not pretty either...
...Quonset huts seem to be the only solution to a crisis that has been allowed to reach its eleventh hour. The University has contracted for forty of these structures. If the administration plans to use this as a model for other developments, forty are sufficient. But if the University means to drop the job there, it will be a clear demonstration that Harvard is still economizing as usual while colleges with much smaller endowments rally to meet this crisis in education. No less than ten times that number of emergency units, placed on Soldiers Field, along the River...
During the war, he served on the carrier Bunker Hill in the Pacific. Later, as a lieutenant commander, he trained other officers in air-combat intelligence at the Navy's prep school on Rhode Island's Quonset Point. He decided that they caught on fast because their work had purpose. Says he: "I don't believe in teaching any course just crammed full of inert material...