November 25, 1946

A. Chester Hanford, dean of the College since 1927, announces his intent to resign from his post in June to resume teaching in the government department. Wilbur J. Bender '27, chief of the Counsellor for Veterans office--responsible for re-orienting students from the war to the University--is appointed to replace Hanford.

December 3, 1946

The Faculty votes to end the 30-year distinction between A.B. and S.B. degrees, and instead will award all graduates beginning with the Class of 1950 the bachelor of arts degree. The Faculty also waives the College's requirement in ancient languages.

December 9, 1946

Trustees of the Harvard Advocate gather in New York City to decide the future of the literary magazine, which stopped publishing in 1943 in the face of considerable debt.

December 12, 1946

President Conant is one of nine prominent scientists and engineers appointed by President Harry S. Truman to the general advisory committee for the Control Commission on atomic energy.

December 19, 1946

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

January 7, 1947

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.

On this date, the Faculty also abolishes the War Service Sciences concentration and creates the Physical Sciences field, toward which fewer military and naval science classes may be taken for credit.

January 9, 1947

The final exam for the fall term's most popular class, Economics A, is rescheduled for an unprecedented 7:15 p.m. time slot due to high enrollment and space limitations. Many students are angered.