Word: deconverted
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...Committee will be confronted by three broad alternatives for filling the tenth House -- deconvert most House suites and at the same time raise rooms rents, end off-campus living, or admit more students to Harvard College...
...House would also present the Administration with a number of options to ease present crowding in the Houses. It could abandon Claverly Hall as a dormitory, and simultaneously deconvert a small number of suites in the Houses. Or, if it kept the 120 spaces in Claverly, it could deconvert a far larger number of House suites. No firm decisions have been made, but officials seem to be leaning towards retaining Claverly. "A lot of boys like rooms in Claverly," Dean Monro noted last week...
...college has decided that it cares more about housing all its present students in dormitories than in recruiting a more diversified, interesting student body. It doesn't have funds for both. Radcliffe has begun a vast campaign for funds to complete construction of the Fourth House and renovate and deconvert the existing dormitories. Until the college raises $16 million for building and then looks for scholarship money there will be few changes in its financial aid policy--and few changes in its students...
Kirkland House will deconvert fifteen additional suites this fall, a change called "justice in the long run," by Master Charles H. Taylor...
...explained that Kirkland and Winthrop were more overcrowded than the rest of the Houses, "simply because of their architecture." "I hope that we can continue to deconvert each year even in the old Houses," Watson explained...