Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...providing scholarship aid while directly benefiting the cooperative's residents. Additional co-ops, at Radcliffe as well as perhaps at Harvard, may yet become the solution for part of the college's dormitory expansion program. But Mildred P. Sherman, Dean of College Relations, would like to see more brick dormitories--like the planned Ada Louise Comstock Hall--so that girls will not have to live on Massachusetts Avenue or in private homes...
...future, the Dean hopes Radcliffe may eventually build a large brick cooperative to combine the educational advantages of co-op life with the amenities of new housing. The building would be separated into units for 25 students, but would have a central heating and electrical plant as well as a general storage area. This kind of construction should prove more economical than dormitories, because it removes the need for service personnel, and is easier for the girls to operate because many of the facilities in the old frame houses are today somewhat antequated...
...Radcliffe, the term "off-campus" includes a variety of living arrangements that serve as expedient solutions to the problems of housing--from rented frame houses on Massachusetts Avenue far from the college's brick centre, to the private homes where where four or five girls board, to stately old Gilman and Saville Houses (actually on the Quad) and the three cooperatives, Everett, Edmands, and Parker...
...when abroad, he longed for home. From London in November he wrote: "If you have sat in the parlor reeking with its gravedamp chill, if then you go out into the steaming air into a street of villas, catch your bus and ride home through vast areas of drab brick, lightened by an occasional pub in which you see a few sodden wretches mournfully ruminant over a glass of bitter beer-if you have gone through this, then, my boy . . . your guts will ache with passion for the Happy Land, the glorious country with the bright Sunday evening wink...
Charles R. Cherington '35, professor of Government, wants the College to move to Peterborough, N.H. But to forestall the Old Grad with a vested interest in President Eliot's elms and the brick sidewalks on Garden St., he doesn't want the move to take place for the next 100 years...