Word: dorm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Martha M. Babcock '70, discovered the fire and pulled the dormitory's fire alarm at 10:42. At the time, only five of the eighteen girls living there were in the dorm, and all five made their escape safely...
...rare moment of frankness, a Harvard student was talking about life in the dorm. "It's not so much that people appear self-conscious," he said, "though of course they are, but that people are devastatingly image-conscious. You are typed and categorized according to the front you present, and forevermore you are put in the arty set or with the heads or among the wonks or jocks. You can't stand naked before anyone but your roommates and your girlfriend. You are given an identity which you begin to believe in yourself, and once you're in that...
...incident, even larger than the Holworthy one, that occurred at the same time among a group of five or six Radcliffe freshmen in Holmes Hall. Their activities had been revealed by another student, too. But they had been involved in more frequent trysts, and they were happening in the dorm itself. The North House dean had several of them sent to UHS psychiatrists--a common remedy or punishment for drug offenders...
...dipping into capital, Mrs. Bunting was reluctant to risk a still greater loss. She assured the girls that she and administrative officials were working on economy measures to allow more girls off-campus. "But we will not run a bigger deficit, raise room rates for everyone in the dorms, and lower the standards of dorm living to allow a few individuals to have apartments," she insisted...
Anastasia Kucharski '68, RGA president, began drawing up the new rules last month after dorm presidents and many Cliffies complained that the present rules, adopted last year, were pointless and unenforceable. They contended that the present system, in which girls do not write their destinations, does not provide any protection, and therefore should be either strengthened or abolished...