August 1946

A record-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 from outside the Boston area are housed barracks-style in the Indoor Athletic Building (now the Malkin Athletic Center).

September 19, 1946

In the face of burgeoning enrollment, Harvard tries to accomodate two and a half times the normal number of students in the same length of registration time. Veterans constitute 71 percent of College enrollment.

September 23, 1946

At its first meeting of the year, the Student Council establishes a committee of representatives and members of other student organizations, including Phillips Brooks House and the Crimson, to consider changes in basic Council structure.

September 28, 1946

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

September 30, 1946

As fall term begins, all classes but those in the natural sciences see increased enrollment. Economics A, with 1,092 students, is the College,s most popular elective.

October 3, 1946

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

October 22, 1946

The University announces that 82 international students are registered at the College, as a predicted post-war flood of European and South American students does not materialize.

October 30, 1946