Word: witte
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fact, during the summer, Miss Witt hit upon a new idea: to help the veteran mailing veterans' applications to them prior to registration. This saved last year's veteran the ordeal of standing in line at Memorial Hall to register and then parading to the New Lecture Hall and register again...
...something slips up in Miss Witt's department, everything will go wrong: the veteran will not receive his G.I. check so he cannot eat, and Harvard will not receive its tuition money. But nothing has ever slipped up in Miss Witt's department and her superior, Monro, doubts that anything ever will...
...when the Veterans Administration sends out its checks. Once, after checks were distributed, there was a sudden invasion of the Counsellor's office. The telephone began ringing incessantly. There were 100 veterans milling about, waving signed but blank checks. "What's the story?" they shouted. Then someone on Miss Witt's staff discovered the trouble: the Veterans Administration's check writing machine had stopped and left a big wad of them undone...
Most of Miss Witt's work is straightening out the complexities of the Veterans Administration. She issues a bulletin several times a year to help unjumble the VA's abstruseness. A recent complexity that must be explained to veterans is the new ruling that they cannot begin a new course after July, 1951. A veteran who is going to graduate cannot, after this date, go on to a graduate school and receive benefits from the G.I. bill...
...Miss Witt has been working in the University since 1937. Near the end of World War II, she was secretary to President Conant and worked with him and Bernard Baruch on their famed Rubber Report. She has been with the Counsellor for Veterans ever since the position started at the College...