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...clear, then, that the River Houses have the votes to pass the Fox proposal in some form. Those votes make it plain that Canaday is indeed the real problem, and that the freshmen at the Quad are a mere casualty in the battle. It appears once again that the Quad is being sacrificed for the River...
...example of the sentiment that River masters have against Canaday, take James Vorenberg '48, master of Dunster House. At the CHUL meeting Wednesday, Vorenberg decried the "clear and incontrovertible burden placed on the sophomores in Canaday," who number about...
...more statistical reading of the CHUL feelings against housing sophomores in Canaday, just look at the results of the straw votes the committee took on Wednesday. CHUL members were asked to rank their preferences among six alternative housing plans. Fifteen CHUL members listed immediate implementation of the Fox plan as their first choice; 13 said their first choice was implementation of the Fox plan in 1978-79. Only five members listed the North House plan, allowing freshmen to stay at the Quad Houses to retain freshmen, as a first choice, and two members said their preference was a plan...
When benefactor Canaday told Harvard he would like to give them a dorm, he was reportedly told that the University would like to build it at the Quad, because that's where attractive new housing was most needed. Canaday, however, wanted his hall in the Yard, where he had gone to college, and not way the hell up Garden Street. Canaday's love for the Yard, while heart-warming, must now be viewed as more than a little unfortunate, because events have conspired to make his dorm the agent that will cause the end of four-year housing...
...same gavel, Sherlock Holmes pipe and good humor that he employed at the CHUL meeting. The decisions are ultimately his. Making a prediction here would resemble nothing so much as a dancing upon an already cracking limb. But a brief word of advice: freshmen shouldn't plan on enjoying Canaday's generosity next year, nor should applicants to the class of '81 waste any time deciding whether they want to live in the Quad...