Word: bertram
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Residents of Bertram Hall, outraged at being sent from their own dining room into Briggs for lunch, Monday organized a boycott of the South House dining room. This effort to resist house dining appears to have collapsed, although Bertram still solidly opposes the change...
...boycott is based on the Bertram girls' conviction that their dorm is an exceptional place, that the "friendly, relaxed atmosphere at lunch is one of the nicest things about Bertram." The move to Briggs was thought inconvenient and unnecessary, and made Bertram "no better than an off-campus house...
...gesture of protest failed, most girls thought, because it was neither well-organized nor well thought out. "Nobody seems to care much; Bertram is so small, anyway," one girl moaned...
...present experimental stage, the South House plan has some drawbacks of its own. For example, members of the same dorm tend to eat together in the House dining room. Members of small halls like Bertram must give up the intimacy of their own cozy dining rooms during South House lunches. Because of these immediate difficulties, a number of students have opposed the plan without giving it a fair trial. In fact, today, just one week after the beginning of the experiment, the residents of Bertram Hall will boycott it by taking box lunches or eating in the Graduate Center. Radcliffe...
Girls in South House have expressed mixed opinions on their first experience with all-House lunches. In an experiment lasting until Christmas, girls in Barnard, Bertram and Briggs are all eating lunch in Briggs Hall...