By this year, classes had become crowded. Many courses were repeated twice or three times in order for all the undergraduate students to attend. In 1948, 27 of the 110 undergraduates were students returning who had taken the short introduction courses during the war years.
The first floor of the Dawson building was finally finished. Physics claimed dominion over the ground floor, so the new addition mainly housed, botany, zoology and geology.
By 1949, space was considered tight again. Several premade huts were erected on the science site, south of the Dawson Building. One was used as a new first-year teaching laboratory for physics. Once physics funded a new building, other departments made use of the huts until the 1990s. You can see how the site looked in this image (right) taken in the early 1950s, showing the Dawson Building and the huts to the top left and the newly constructed Geography department to the right (built in 1952).
