Word: apley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until this fall Apley Hall was a rather dismal old dormitory used for storing people who didn't quite make it into the Houses. But starting this month Apley has been transformed into an enormous white hope...
...transformation was accomplished with little trouble on May 13 last spring when the University announced that the first three floors of Apley would henceforth be devoted to tutorial offices for communting students. At the same time Charles Preston Whitlock, associate director of the Bureau of Study Council, was named Senior Tutor of the Commuters Center...
With the new office space in Apley, commuters and their tutors will now be able to meet with more regularity, and in a somewhat less hectic atmosphere than was formerly provided. Until this year the only place where Dudley tutors and commuters could get together was the Non-Residents Center itself, and even there lack of office space meant that such contacts were impossible except at mealtime...
Thus it was that Apley was in part turned over to the Commuters Center as a sort of intellectual annex for tutorial sessions. This, along with the appointment of a Senior Tutor for Dudley just as for the Houses, should do a great deal this year in raising the morale of a traditionally outcast group of Harvard...
Upperclass commuters will have the added opportunity of tutorial in the remade Apley Court, whether they are members of the Commuters Center...