Word: dorm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bevington is seemingly undisturbed about the prospect of living in a dorm with 110 girls. He and his wife have served as tutor affiliates of Moors and are a familiar sight at Tuesday night dinner. "The more we go, the more at home we feel," he noted...
...quickly squelched the rumors that a merger of Kirkland and Moors may be in the offing. "Nothing seems to be moving ahead on it," he said. "The first two House-dorm affiliations came quickly; then the wheels ground to a halt. Dunster and Lowell have said 'Never...
...overabundance of copy is particularly striking in the section on the dormitories. In truth, there is very little to say about the difference in "character" among the dorms, even less than among the Harvard Houses. A lengthy blurb on each dorm is bound to deteriorate into a few private jokes or a questionable attempt to attach cliches to each one--Briggs: "cool, self-assured sophistication;" Eliot: "talkative;" Holmes: "musical, spirited, homey;" Whitman: "slightly mad potpourri...
...still including me, respectfully suggest a double feature at the U.T., evoking either scalding hauteur or tears from our dates. "How," they hiss, "can you ignore the excellent movies, some in English, which are now spellbinding the Boston cognoscenti? Do you expect me to tell the girls in the dorm that I went to the U.T.? And saw a double feature...
...change was made on the assumption that these dorm officials, being acquainted with the students involved, could best make an intelligent distribution of people with differing personalities and interests. However, Mrs. Alan S. Locke, head resident of Briggs Hall, called it "inefficient" not to handle the room assignments in one central place...