Census Blanks Circulate at Four Houses; More Today

What you did last week and the highest grade of school you have attended are among the 28 questions asked students in census blanks distributed yesterday in four of the Houses. The rest of the Houses and Radcliffe will get forms today or tomorrow.

Special permission from Washington has allowed the local Census Bureau to use "Individual Census" forms at all colleges in the Cambridge areas. Under general nationwide procedure enumerators go around and see individuals personally.

Forms handed out yesterday contain questions asking: name, race, relationship to the head of the household in which you live, are, birth place, type of job held at present or in the past year, service in the Armed Forces, and marital status.

One of the questions included is, "How many children have you ever borne, not counting stillbirths. (If none, check the box.)"

The answers given are all confidential and "cannot be used for purposes of taxation, investigation, or regulation."

All persons are required by law to fill in the forms. Even if the student thinks that his family has answered the questions for him, he must fill them in again. The questions answered by his family for him will be stricken from the record.

Census Plans

Students who are lining at home or not in the College dormitories, will not fill out the same form. they will be seen personally by Census Bureau enumerators at their place of residence.

Winthrop, Lowell, Eliot, and Kirkland Houses got the census forms yesterday and the rest of the Houses will receive the forms today or tomorrow. Radcliffe will got the forms today or tomorrow in the dormitories.

Hastings and Perkins Hall, at the Law School, and Divinity Hall received the forms yesterday.