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This is the primitive side to 'New Coll.' But there are compensations. If the authorities do not maintain Quincy House standards of physical luxury, they do at least supply every three or four undergraduates with a 'Scout', a manservant who polishes shoes, brings shaving water by urn and does other odd jobs about the place. Then, again, the fan-vaulted basement, recently become a thriving barroom, serves as evidence that asceticism and the Good Life can be practised simultaneously. Do the authorities worry about liquor being served on the premises? Not a bit of it. For generations a variety...
Usually less colorful than this, the informality that runs through extracurricular life does apply to the undergraduate experience as a whole. The 'New Coll.' man is much freer than his Harvard counterpart to determine the quality and scope of his education. If the curriculum is narrow, the professors distant, and living conditions rough, the undergraduate does at least have time and a wealth of opportunity to widen his own interests...