Word: dorm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radcliffe dorm meals suffer from problems even worse than those caused by the food. South House's experiment with a single House dining room can alleviate some of these. The attempt should be welcomed; unfortunately, many students have already opposed...
Students now feel rushed in many of the dorm dining rooms. At the breakfast and lunch buffets, food is served for only half an hour. At the "sitdown" dinners, served by student waitresses, all students must begin the meal at the same time--and finish it about half an hour later...
...present lack of intelligent dinner-table conversation poses a second problem. Some obviously intelligent students claim they are too rushed for relaxed talk. House Faculty affiliates and members of the Radcliffe Institute might pep up the meal hours, but many find dorm meals unpleasantly hurried or sparsely attended and do not come...
...present experimental stage, the South House plan has some drawbacks of its own. For example, members of the same dorm tend to eat together in the House dining room. Members of small halls like Bertram must give up the intimacy of their own cozy dining rooms during South House lunches. Because of these immediate difficulties, a number of students have opposed the plan without giving it a fair trial. In fact, today, just one week after the beginning of the experiment, the residents of Bertram Hall will boycott it by taking box lunches or eating in the Graduate Center. Radcliffe...
...floors in Briggs are too slippery," whined one Barnard girl. "You really do meet new people," said, another girl, although the person standing next to her thought that conversations were exclusively among girls from the same dorm...