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As for the student reaction to the plans—which, if enacted, would have significantly altered the course of the Harvard undergraduate experience—there seems to have been little other than the Freshman Council’s vote on May 11, 1960 to oppose the plan.
Strauss, who arrived at Harvard on scholarship in the fall of 1956 from his hometown in Providence, R.I., said that he was merely glad to have been admitted. But he attributes part of that disposition to the culture of the 1950s.
“We were content, you know? We’d been through the war, the economy had rebounded,” Smith said, adding that the only discussion he recalls among fellow undergraduates over the proposed housing changes had to do with the architecture of the new buildings...
“Our blocking group [met] them in Currier—and that wouldn’t have been possible if this House system weren’t randomized,” Flanzraich said. “Becoming friends with those people was probably one of the most valuable...
Despite Jennings’s worries as a freshman, by the time he graduated in 1985, he had been elected by his peers to deliver the Harvard Oration at commencement.