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
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