Education: S.R.O.

The big colleges, and the little colleges with big names, were getting the trade.

Last week, in most U.S. colleges, spring terms had just begun. Pitt was so crowded that classes had to be held on a day & night shift. At Ohio State, wives of faculty members helped teach. Texas Christian University set up geology labs in a gymnasium.

Wisconsin quartered 1,866 veterans in a powder plant 35 miles from the campus, 1,660 more at an Army airfield. Columbia established a "trailer campus," charging veterans for parking space but not for rent. At Rhode Island State, 28 Quonsets on Vet Row were...

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