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...ideal final examination, according to John J. Conway, who lectures in Soc. Sci. 6, would be a tape recording of a group of students engaged in a heated dinner table conversation of a course they were taking. "There they would be participating in the course, refining spontaneous opinions which they can examine more thoroughly later...
...statement of Master Conway that "virtually unandmous" satisfaction prevails among the inhabitants of the Leverett Towers prompts me to offer a few words on recent Harvard architecture, and on the expansion of the college. I connect these two subjects because it would seem that "Towerism" is to be a vehicle for expansion, even if the tenth House, and others which appear to be forthcoming, are not constructed precisely like the Towers...
Since Masters and Senior Tutors cannot deal effectively with more than 450 students, John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, feels that this figure represents an "absolute maximum." In contrast to Finley and Bullitt, he considers the maximum figure to be the ideal number. Viewing the Yale Colleges as "almost too intimate," he declared that only a large House can provide the necessary privacy for ungregarious students...
Defending the arrangement at Leverett Towers, Conway emphasized its great flexibility in providing rooms for groups from 2 to 14. The "virtually unanimous" satisfaction of the students living in the Towers furnishes the best answer to its critics, he commented...
...issue that this election will affect immediately is the Willard Uphaus case. Wyman has indicated that he may reopen investigations of the New Haven pacifist who was jailed for refusing to divulge names of people who attended his summer conferences in North Conway. Boutin does not think Uphaus's conviction was unjust, but says that the Subversion Act under which Wyman operated "isn't a good law."; Boutin's backers will probably influence him to forget the case. Uphaus may return unharassed to New Haven if Boutin wins on Tuesday, but there won't be a revolution in New Hampshire...