Harvard Lockout

The University has been greatly surprised at the prospect of filling the Houses this summer. Back in the hectic days which followed Pearl Harbor the authorities expected a rapid dash to the colors which would thin student ranks and make it impossible for the University to make ends meet. The Dean's Office, therefore, decided to allow students not attending Summer School to keep their, furniture in their rooms by the simple if extravagant expedient of paying rent through the summer months. This it was thought would ease a difficult budget situation.

But once again the unexpected proved the fact, and the problem of summer housing has become one for the sardine packer instead of the real-estate agent. With the army, navy, and airforce granting exemptions to college students, no one can quite see how all those signed up will be fitted in during the hot months ahead. Thus a policy which leaves rooms standing empty while students sweat in confined quarters designed for half their numbers, and which forces a few new Freshmen out of the Houses into a Yard which is no longer in the main stream of undergraduate life, has become an outmoded link in the University's war program. Such a ruling should be erased from the statute books.