January 14, 1947

The Faculty votes to codify customary but unprinted rules governing extracurricular organizations, including required Faculty approval for the distribution of papers and posters.

January 29, 1947

Trustees of the Advocate announce the creation of a four-person committee headed by Donald B. Watt Jr. '47 to bring the magazine back into print.

February 6, 1947

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).

February 7, 1947

Reform of the Student Council constitution is halted when final returns of a two-day vote reveal that less than half of the student body have cast ballots. Of those voting, 86 percent support the new constitution. The constitution is then ratified Feb. 13 by an internal council vote.

February 10, 1947

A state-wide hunt begins for Sylvester Gardiner '46, football and varsity crew athlete an son of an ex-governor of Maine, who disappeared Jan. 23. Gardiner's family initially suspects he may have fallen into the Charles River while ice skating. After a four-week, multistate search, two children find Gardiner's body floating in the Boston basin of the Charles with ice skates attached to his feet.

February 18, 1947

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 5, 1947

The eight-year-old Bureau of Supervisors in renamed the Bureau of Study Counsel, Clarifying the role of the agency in offering student guidance services.

March 8, 1947