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beards. “At first the students were still conscious of rank," Padre Carl Swan recalls. "When someone they thought was an officer came along, they'd automatically stiffen and get ready to salute." Against this background it was important that the students should be convinced of the need to think for themselves and to accept a large share of the responsibility of governing themselves in residence. In the first term, the housemaster of each residence was a member of the academic staff. After that there were quite a few student housemasters and there was always a house committee of six students. About 70 per cent of the student body lived in residences. The house committees did a good job. In approximately 850 days of class-room work at Ajax, only four students were told to get out and not come back. In great measure, also, amicable relations between students resulted from the fact that roommates were carefully selected. "Hours and hours were spent in matching them up," said R. H. Perry, the supervisor of residences. "There were two students in each room and they had to be much the same age and usually in the same course. There had to be a certain number of older students in each house and it was important that no house have more than its share of the star athletes. Also, you couldn't put 20 year old students in one room and have 30 year old students on either side. It was a nice little problem." In 1946, about 30 per cent of the students were married men. Some lived in residence but others naturally wanted to get homes nearby. In the village of Ajax, which housed 2800 people, and which was only a few hundred yards from the University were neat little homes of four to six rooms which rented for $25 to $33 a month. Most of the homes, of course, were occupied by warworkers who had moved in at the beginning of the project and couldn't very well be evicted. Eventually, 130 University of Toronto married students got homes for their families in the 600-house village. Many other married students com-muted from Toronto. Scores found living accommodation in nearby Pick-ering or Whitby. Some got along in "winterized" summer cottages Pickering Beach. Eight or more families lived in trailers. Lack of funds and other marital diffi-culties produced some heartaches and headaches. University authorities, par-ticularly Professor Wright and student counsellor J. E. M. Young, sat down with students and helped them thresh out their problems. They found the majority of the wives were doing all they could to surmount difficulties which could be considerable. For ex-ample, one couple living in a "winter-ized" cottage had to go a quarter of a mile for water. The peak session was 1946-47 when there were 3,300 students including 2,335 in residence. Those who took part will never forget registration day in September, 1946. It was raining steadily and there were stack of valises and trunks piled everywhere. Registration of the long queues of students went on that day and the 4