1945-1949 IN REVIEW

First installment of the Class of 1949 arrives on campus to register on a sweltering day in early July.

SEPTEMBER

Second installment of the Class of 1949 arrives in Cambridge to begin the first peacetime term since 1941. Registration reaches 1,383.

NOVEMBER

Yale beats Harvard 28-0 in The Game. The traditional matchup is still in its wartime guise and as such is not official intercollegiate play.

DECEMBER

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals debuts "The Proof of the Pudding," the first production the company has presented since 1941. FEBRUARY 1946

Third segment of the Class of 1949 registers as total College enrollment swells to over 3,000 and University enrollment reaches an unmanageable 7,000.

Provost Paul Buck announces that joint instruction of Harvard and Radcliffe students in undergraduate courses--begun during the war when male students were scarce--would continue.

MARCH

More than 900 students and other members of the Harvard community crowd into New Lecture Hall to hear W.H. Auden read his poetry.

APRIL

The Harvard Crimson daily is resurrected as the twice-weekly wartime Harvard Service News fades into history.

Housing crunch due to skyrocketing enrollment leads University to open temporary housing units in Jarvis Field for veteran students with families.

JUNE

The University announces the opening of rooms in Boston's Hotel Brunswick for 100 veteran families.

City of Cambridge celebrates 100th anniversary of its incorporation. SEPTEMBER 1946

Arecord-size Class of '50 enters and letters are sent warning 292 first-years living within 45 minutes of Harvard that they will be required to commute for the year. Meanwhile, several hundred students are housed barracks-style in the Indoor Athletic Building (IAB, now Malkin Athletic Center.) Veterans constitute 71 percent of College enrollment.

28 At the Crimson's first formal football game since 1942, 25,000 spectators watch Harvard defeat the University of Connecticut 7-0.

OCTOBER

3 An anti-communist bloc is elected to the leadership of the Harvard Liberal Union, ousting four students allegedly tied to the Youth Communist League.

30 Harvard President James B. Conant '14 says he has no plans to run in the 1948 U.S. Presidential race, despite prompting by colleagues. "Somebody is always running me for something," Conant tells The Crimson. "At one time I was No. 7 in the list of America's best dressed men. It must have been a mistake."

NOVEMBER

The Harvard Crimson puts out a parody of the Daily Dart-mouth so convincing that the lead story-"SEVEN INDIAN STARTERS OVERCOME BY FOOD POISONING ON EVE OF GAME"-induces widespread panic among Dartmouth supporters. The Crimson gridders eventually defeat Dartmouth 21 to 7 in Hanover.

2 The Crimson loses its first football game since the war to Rutgers, 13-0, lifting what what Boston papers call the "Rose Bowl Whammy" from the team's shoulders.

14 Appearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy Harlow Shapley accuses Rep. John E. Rankin (D-Miss.) of using "Gestapo" tactics in his management of the committee.

23 Despite two quick Crimson touchdowns, Yale defeats Harvard 27-14 in the 63rd annual game. Attendance was so heavy that cars blocked streets for half a mile up Mass. Ave.

DECEMBER

12 President Conant is one of nine prominent scientists and engineers appointed by President Harry S. Truman to the general advisory committee for the Central Commission on Atomic Energy.

19 S. Douglass Cater '46-'47, a Harvard delegate to the 1946 meeting of the International Student Congress, is forced to field allegations by Professor William Y. Elliott that the group is infiltrated by communists. JANUARY 1947

7 Two hundred experts in government, education and industry gather at Harvard for the opening of the Computation Laboratory, a "modernistic, two-story structure" featuring the 51-foot IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator.

FEBRUARY

6 The city of Cambridge installs parking meters for the first time, charging one cent per 12 minutes along Mass Ave., Brattle Street and Boylston Street (now JFK Street).

18 Dean Hanford suspends a College rule prohibiting personal solicitation of funds in the Houses and dormitories, allowing the Food Relief Committee to collect funds for relief efforts in countries including Greece, Poland and China. The campaign is supported by folk singer Pete Seeger '40, who gives a free concert in Emerson Hall two weeks later.

MARCH

8 Two black students are halted at the entrance of Club 100, a Cambridge social club, and asked to present "membership cards." Three weeks of student protest and picketing later, the owner signs a 126-word statement aserting that "race, creed or color" will not keep patrons out of the club.

APRIL

24 The College announces that veterans and non-veterans fared equally well academically in the fall semester, with 30 percent of veterans and 28.5 percent of non-veterans receiving a Dean's List average.

MAY

23 Final plans are released for Lamont Library, where "functional design will be the keynote." Construction of the library, which will be closed to Radcliffe students, is set to begin in June.

JUNE

5 Secretary of State George C. Marshall unveils the Marshall Plan as part of his address at the 296th Commencement Ceremony. SEPTEMBER 1947

18 As returning veterans flood college campuses across the country, Harvard enrolls the largest number of students in its 311-year history. College enrollment hits 5,600 as the House feel the squeeze of an all-time record influx. Housing is cramped, and the College again resorts to cots in the Indoor Athletic Building.

OCTOBER

3 The Crimson pride smarts as vandals from Boston University paint John Harvard with B.U. colors and burn their school's initials in 15-foot letters on Soldiers' Field.

14 The Harvard Athletic Association (HAA) announces it will enforce a ban on women in cheering sections at the Stadium.

NOVEMBER

4 Massachusetts Attorney General Clarence A. Barnes proposes legislation to bar Communists from teaching in public schools. In February, President Conant blasts the bill in testimony at the White House. But despite the opposition, the legislature passes a watered-down version of the bill.

22 The Yale football squad defeats Harvard, 31-21, in the teams' 64th annual matchup.

DECEMBER

2 The infant Veritas Films, a student film studio, begins shooting its inaugural picture, "Touch of the Times."

12 Smoking will be permitted in the new Lamont Library, but Radcliffe undergraduates will not, announces library director Keyes D. Metcalf. JANUARY 1948

The Chicago Tribune brands Harvard a "hotbed of Communism."

8 Students submit a proposal for a new "Crimson Key" society to welcome visiting athletes and dignitaries.

FEBRUARY

6 Before a cheering audience of 1,000, Professor of Geology Kirtley F. Mather slams Massachusetts Attorney General Clarence A. Barnes in a debate over Barnes anti-communist bill.

MARCH

2 More than 200 students stage a rally for the Marshall Plan, braving stiff winds and six inches of snow.

23 The Hotel Brunswick in Boston's Back Bay--which had been leased by the University for two years to provide housing for married veterans--will return to civilian occupation at the end of the year, officials announce.

APRIL

8 Students opposed to President Harry S. Truman's recent draft proposal organize a rally at Memorial Hall, drawing almost 1,000 in opposition to University Military Training and the escalating Cold War.

16 Historian Helen M. Cam becomes the first woman to receive tenure at Harvard when she is named the Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor.

22 Despite its easy passage in the House of Representatives, 46 Faculty members sign a statement urging the defeat of the federal Mundt-Nixon bill, which would restrict the activities of communists. SEPTEMBER 1948

IAB becomes home to 200 freshmen as registration soars for the third straight year.

NOVEMBER

Yale game fans clog hotels, restaurants and theatres as the Stadium is sold out. The Crimson clobbers the Bulldogs, 20 to 7.

DECEMBER

Local business group maps a new plan to streamline the Square. JANUARY 1949

Lamont Library makes its debut, setting a new mark in functional design.

Academic probation abolished for juniors and seniors.

FEBRUARY

Spring rioting by mob marks Lampoon's "secession from the civilized world."

APRIL

Varsity Crew sweeps Prince, Rutgers and MIT in season opener, ending the season with an Ivy League championship.

MAY

Student Council votes to abolish Class Albums, replaces the volume with Class Yearbooks.

Kirkland House wins Straus Cup.

JUNE

The University celebrates the opening of the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory at 44 Oxford St. Harvard built the first such machine in 1937, but the federal government drafted it during World War II. It was taken apart and shipped to Los Alamos, N.M., in 1943, for service in designing the first atomic bombs. After the war, the government never gave back the cyclotron, so Harvard received funds from the Office of Naval Research to build a new one, completed in 1949. From then until 1967, physicists from many parts of the world used the machine to increase knowledge about the nature of atoms and their interactions with each other.