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1946-1950: Harvard and Beyond

Fall
HAA to bar women from Saturday cheering section.

Monitors ordered to "spread girls around" in classrooms.

HAA to seat women in 1948 cheering section.

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1949-1950:

September
University enrollment drops by almost 700 to under 5000, and fell by another 200 in the spring term. Freshman class in 1950 was smaller by hundreds than the GI bill class.

October
Harvard Law School decides to accept women students beginning in the fall of 1950.

MGM begins shooting the crime flick "Mystery Street" in the yard.

November
Yale beats Harvard 29-6.

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