Word: depots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First they said it was Pusey, then Bundy, then Pusey again. Now it is clear: the Harvard Student Agencies runs the place. A case in point is HSA's "depot" linen and laundry system in the Yard--instituted in September without the consent or even the knowledge of those in the Administration responsible for such matters...
Administration officials have hinted throughout the Fall that the depot system is a hopeless mess, yet have taken no action at all. Dean von Stade is supposedly in charge of solicitation in the Yard; all he would say was that the Administration will take a long look at the plan and then decide whether or not to continue...
Administration officials more or less agreed last week that a decision on the Yard depot experiment would be made by Dean von Stade, Dean Watson, Trottenberg, Wallace McDonald, Director of the Financial Aid Office, and Dustin M. Burke '52, Director of Student Employment and the man responsible for the new plan...
...depot experiment's failure is not nearly so surprising as the fact that the HSA was able to make such a drastic revision of the Yard operations without the approval, or even the knowledge, of many members of the Administration...
Dean von Stade's prediction that the Harvard Student Agencies' linen and laundry depots will not last the month is certainly welcome news to freshmen. A glance at the long lines of students awaiting their weekly care packages of linen would be enough to suggest that the depot system is far from the ideal solution to linen and laundry delivery problems in the Yard...