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...SYSTEM could also achieve attractive results in the much neglected area of departmental reform. Imagine housing History majors in the eastern end of Canaday Hall where they could maintain constant pressure on senior faculty in the department. Had this been done before, the widely detested departmental requirements in History might have fallen years ago as the Bastille did centuries before; but the department's isolation in an obscure corner of the Yard has made reform as unlikely as spontaneous and surprise attack by Parisian mobs on Versailles...
...lived together. Potential do-gooders housed in Mower and Stoughton would reject all past reluctance to engage in social work full-time when subjected to the looming, guilt-trip-inducing presence of Phillips Brooks House. Likewise, potential converts could be placed in Thayer north or the western end of Canaday, where the mystical magnetism of Memorial Church would soon prove irresistable...
...Yard has traditionally been reserved for freshmen (although last year there were some sophomores living there and this year an entire dorm, Canaday, will be filled with upperclassmen), while freshmen at the Quad live in houses which are made up of students at every level. The Yard tends to be rowdier than the Quadrangle--everyone who lived recently in the Yard remembers all night shouting matches between Thayer and Holworthy ("Thayer Sucks!"), and has heard of the legendary Straus Rape and Pillage Society which paraded around the Yard last year on Thursday nights complete with drums and occasional bagpipes...
...women as friends, and because their presence as role models ("successful women") was often comforting. One proctor was a transactional analyst, another was breezing through Harvard Business School, another was at the Law School and loving it. Their proctees liked the maternal warmth and easygoing support. One freshwoman from Canaday said, "My proctor had just graduated from Radcliffe two years before, and she was very cynical about Harvard men. When we felt rejected and lonely she'd cheer us up with her own combination of feminism and experience. She did for us what most of the male proctors have been...
Forced to officials of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Crooks ends up with Bruce Collier, assistant dean of the College for housing. "Hi, Bruce," he says. "This is Tom Crooks. The bathrooms over in Canaday are starting to get muggy, and I think we should push the button over there...