Fall Housing to Face 33 Percent Rise From Norm

"Housing conditions are going to be crowded next fall, and the students might just as well get used to the idea," Robert B. Watson '37, associate dean of the College, said yesterday as he sought to find room for the estimated 5800 undergraduates that will pour into the College next September.

University housing will probably not be taxed at all during the summer, Dean Watson surmised, since figures released yesterday by Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar of the College, revealed that only 900 students had signified their intention of returning for the summer term on the study cards turned in Wednesday.

Freshmen To Have Yard

The 11 Yard Halls, with a normal capacity of approximately 700, will be reallocated so that the entire section of the Freshman class entering from secondary schools, probably numbering about 800, will be housed in their traditional buildings. Over and above this number some part of the other 1800-odd men who will officially be classified as Freshmen next fall will also be jammed into the Yard.

To take pressure off the Houses and the Yard facilities, students living in or near the Boston area will be strongly urged to live at home and commute to classes, Dean Watson emphasized that as yet there was no compulsion attached to this move, although he indicated that something would have to be done to increase the normal 17 percent of commuters enrolled at the University.

He could see no reason, however, why the present restrictions on undergraduates living in apartments or rooms outside the University should be lifted.