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
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