Micm4xlg*T State Cculeae OCTOBER 1946 Aiou+Id Tue Gathfuti with Tk& Oduton

NOV 6 194S \'t \ MicM4XLG*t State CcUleae OCTOBER 1946 Aiou+id tUe GatHfuti with tk& odUton: As you've been reading about the ex Incidentally, we said something about Speaking of folklore, our own campus tensive construction program now un the campus BESIDE the winding cedar has its share of it. The RECORD would der way on the campus perhaps you've a couple of paragi-aphs back. You'll note be glad to run material of that type, been more than a little worried about elsewhere in this issue that the new space permitting, but some one, of how it will affect the beautiful campus agricultural engineering building is go course, has to send it to us. of which we all are so proud. ing up south of the river, the first aca Maybe it should be mentioned that demic building down that wTay. folklore doesn't necessarily have to be Those of you who may have had an old. Many incidents of college life in If that develops into a trend, and well opportunity to visit the campus in the recent years eventually will become the it may, maybe some day we'll have to past few months probably are even more subjects of future reminiscences, and change the phrase to something like worried about it. You've seen steam would provide interesting material even "ASTRIDE the winding cedar." shovels digging in odd places, and bull now. We ourselves might some day tell dozers shoving dirt all over the place. the story of the goal posts at Ann Arbor You've seen pavements, grass and side and how it happened they fell so easily walks torn up. apparently indiscrimin One of the most gratifying things just 10 years ago this fall. And, to men ately. about the college to an alumnus of my tion a couple of names, maybe Dave If you've observed very closely, how day returning to the campus is the cal Christian or Fred Belen would like to ever, you may have noticed something ibre of the faculty and the accomplish tell about their bright idea for an extra more. In one case, for instance, there ments of many of its individual mem float for the 1937 Water Carnival. May was a steamshovel digging up dirt, and bers. be not, too. not more than 50 feet behind it was I'm thinking offhand of some who have Anyhow, drop us a line about the days another filling the newly made ditch been in the news most recently—such you spent here and some of the things up again. But, in between, the necessary as Dr. Nye, new division and department that made life interesting at M.S.C. or work was being done. head who won a Pulitzer prize in 1945 M.A.C. And, by the way, send such ma In several cases, too, pavement that for his biography of George Bancroft; terial directly to the editor—as listed in was torn up less than three weeks ago or Dr. Richard M. Dorson, of the his the box below. already has been repatched and is as tory department, who recently published good as new. Trees and shrubbery are a book on New England folklore and being protected as well as possible to is now studying Michigan's Upper Pen Many of you who were here in the provide a nucleus for future plantings insula in preparation for another book days when the enrollment was in the that will bring the campus back to nor on that area. three to six thousand bracket must think mal. Also Dr. Williams and Dr. Hoppe of of this new 13,000 total with awe—par- W Harold W. Lautner, 1925 graduate of the English department have had work ticularly, if you think of the registra Michigan State, who returned to the accepted for publication, as noted else tion procedure. campus last spring as head of the de where. There are many others, too, but Remembering the kind of schedules partment of landscape architecture and these are in the current news and come the late comers used to get in those old campus landscape architect, has a word to mind at the moment. en days, one can't help but sympathize of assurance for us that we'll still have Dr. Dorson, particularly, I'd like to for those coming from 10,000 on up now a beautiful campus despite the many new mention for it is quite possible many of adays. buildings. you could give him a lift with his work. Hero of the week almost must be Ker- "The beauty of the campus," he says, He is in charge of the Folklore Archives mit Smith, assistant registrar, who al "has not been harmed by buildings built of the college and is seeking folklore of ways seemed able to find time and space in the past and there is no indication the whole state. Perhaps you can send for the many new sections required be that the new buildings will harm it now. something in to him. He'll be glad to cause of the unheralded number of stu Just the reverse is true. The new per have it. dents. manent buildings will add immense pos sibilities in site planning design." As you stop to think about it you'll no doubt agree that the beauty of the MicUiCfGti State Calleae campus hasn't been just its trees, shrub bery and gardens. The buildings them selves always have been an important RECORD part of the overall picture. The build Founded January llf, 1806 ings, the roads and the sidewalks all have Published Quarterly by the M.S.C. Department been blended into the beautiful campus of Public Relations for State's 22,000 Alumni that lies beside the winding cedar. LAWRENCE J. DISTEL, '37 EDITOR Next issue, by which time it is ex pected that all construction in the South ALUMNI NEWS Harrison road area is completed, we Glenn O. Stewart. '17 Alumni Relations Director hope to present an aerial view showing Gladys M. Franks, '27 Alumni Recorder just what has been done over there. You'll note how even in the temporary Entered as Second Class Matter at East Lansing, Mich., under the Act of areas the buildings have been laid out Congress August 24, 1912. along curving roads, with wide, open Volume 51 October, 1946 Number 4 areas for recreation. 2 . TH E RECORD We Wouldn't Jtcvue, 9t Otk&uuUe Thus did President John A. Hannah Where They Live Fall, 1931 3,299 express the willingness of Michigan When the war ended in August, 1945, Fall, 1936 4,627 State College to stretch its facilities to college officials realized it wouldn't be the utmost to accommodate the greatly Fall, 1940 6,776 long before great numbers of students increased enrollment this fall. He was Fall, 1942 6,331 would be seeking admission to Michigan speaking to the convocation for new stu State. And the first and foremost prob dents at the opening of freshman week Fall, 1943 3,484 lem to be met was that of housing. Fall, 1944 3,821 on September 23. Fall, 1945 5,329 In the fall of 1945 fewer than 3,000 students were housed in college-operated President Hannah explained to the new Winter, 1946 6,929 students that the college had never had housing. There were no wives or chil more than about 7,000 students at any dren at that time, but it was obvious that Spring, 1946 .... 7,954 many returning veterans intended to one time prior to the war. An all time bring their families to the campus with high of 8,000 was reached last spring. them when they returned to school. He added that more than 10,000 were Now 13,045 expected to register before the close of At the start of the fall term this year 5,300 students lived in college housing, that week. to the people of Michigan and their chil in addition to nearly 600 dependents. "We wouldn't have it otherwise," he dren seeking a higher education. About 900 men and women lived in fra said. "There have been five years when ternities and sororities. Approximately The Student Body the education of young men has been 2,000 students lived in their own homes interfered with by the war, and now The registrar's office on October 10 or with relatives. The remainder, or there is that great accumulated backlog reported that 13,045 students had regis nearly 5,000, are living in rented quarters in Lansing and East Lansing. Appeals of veterans wanting to come to college, tered. Of this number 9,693 were men, and 3,352 were women. Although a to residents of those cities to open rooms partially subsidized by the government. definite count had not been made it was for student occupancy drew an excellent "It was obvious last spring that we estimated that 8,000 were veterans. The response. The cooperation of home were not going to be able to take care proportion of three men to one woman owners did much to alleviate the housing of all the students who wanted to come is almost the reverse of what it was at shortage. to Michigan State College, but we de times during the war. Other housing projects now under con cided we would take care of all the vet The students started to register on struction probably will be ready for oc erans we could. Wednesday, September 25, and at the cupancy by January 1.

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