At the Coop, waiting students spilled out the door, filled Palmer Street and even snaked around the corner onto Brattle.

Veterans who paid for books and tuition with government money had to put up with even more forms and signatures as they marched back and forth with carbon copies and receipts to the Weld Hall Office of the Counselor for Veterans to process G.I. Bill scholarships.

The University Housing Office worked nights until mid-October in search of a way to squeeze 20 extra men into each House. The administration offered discounts on room and board to students who took on extra roommates and soon nearly all the Houses' generously designed suites were crowded even further over capacity.

In the "halcyon" pre-war years, first years had moved directly into upper-class houses, but as the housing crunch grew to near crisis, all residential upperclassmen were moved out of the Yard and the surrounding dorms into the Houses to clear room for the first year class. The practice of making first-years "Yardlings" continues today.

With these measures, the gymnasium campers were dispersed in time for the first basketball practice, but the crowding problem was still crammed into every part of Harvard.

115 married couples moved into the Hotel Brunswick to find that their post-war life would begin in a one-bedroom apartment with no kitchen and a twin bed.

"This is unfortunate as most people give brides bedclothes for double