Word: deconvert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Leighton, the opening of Quincy House will allow the other seven residential Houses to deconvert up to 230 suites. "The Administration will look carefully at the number of applications for these more expensive suites, and use this as a gage to determine how far deconversion should proceed...
Rents for student rooms may rise this fall, Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, Manager of Operating Services, predicted yesterday. "If, when Quincy opens, the older Houses deconvert some of their overcrowded suites, the extra space per student will have to be paid for," he explained...
...Administration's "overcrowding" argument greatly overestimates the hardship of the present expansion. Few rooms are too crowded to be comfortable. In fact, some Housemasters found themselves pressuring students into deconverting. Instead of allowing students in the Houses to deconvert but encouraging them to take in students from the outside dormitories, House authorities have done the exact opposite...
...totals. But that will come in time as the College decreases in size. The primary consideration now should be to get as many upper-classmen as possible into the House system. This can only be done by encouraging House members to accept new roommates, instead of urging them to deconvert. Until almost all upperclassmen are in the Houses, deconversion is premature...