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Reasons for World War II's housing delays are the same as in World War I: wrangles over Government v. private building, permanent houses v. temporary, renting v. home ownership. Sixteen different Government housing agencies have thoroughly messed up the job. A new, effectively remodeled National Housing Agency has now been created to coordinate all housing efforts. To avoid leaving war plant workers high & dry after the war, most Government houses (cost about $3,500) will be rented to their occupants...
...keep outsides from overcrowding the classes, the University could issue cards to undergraduates who wish to audit. But since students are allowed to enroll in only two courses, they should be allowed, as usual, to broaden their education beyond the sixteen courses required for a degree. The system used under the old plan for former Summer School groups needs an overhaul and tune-up to keep pace with the new accelerated program...
...Sixteen hundred Harvard men will stage the largest full-dress military review seen in this vicinity since World War days, on Monday, May 11, at Soldiers Field...
...Sixteen Fancy Dives...
...past eight years the Fund has annually enrolled more contributors than any other in America. More than 24,000 individual alumni have contributed to it, two-thirds of the living graduates of the College, and they have given in sixteen years over $3,100.000. Last year alone 11,504 alumni were contributors...