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...??The experience of living in cooperation with other people and the staff made it special,?? recalled Bonita Allen ??75, a Lowell alumna...
Graduating seniors said that living in the Houses has prepared them to enter the next stage of their lives. For Cerullo, the Quincy House community has given him ??a certain sense of confidence,?? he said...
Administrators considered moving freshmen into the upperclass Houses, converting the iconic Yard dormitories into individual Houses, or constructing new housing options altogether. As students during the ??Program for Harvard College”??a fundraising effort enacted by President Nathan M. Pusey ??28 in fall 1956 that raised $82.5 million for several campus initiatives in about three years—the Class of 1960 witnessed the establishment of Quincy House in 1959 and the construction of the Leverett Towers...
...background of these developments were Harvard’s efforts to purchase the Bennett Street Yards, a prime stretch of riverfront property owned by the Massachusetts Transit Authority. The negotiations stretched from 1955 to 1966 and pitted the University against Cambridge City Council officials—particularly Alfred ??Big Al” E. Velucci—who were opposed to the idea of a tax-exempt organization such as Harvard taking over an even larger share of lucrative Cambridge real estate...
Dean of Harvard College John U. Monro ??34 argued that relocating freshmen to the Houses would only make it easier for the class to get to know one another. In the spring of 1960, Monro told The Crimson that the main debate was over building new Houses or overfilling older ones, discounting other administrators’ claims that the new plan would profoundly affect the Harvard social community...