Word: dorm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specific job. His grades were only fair at Michigan College of Mining and Technology, where he got his degree last week. But he spent a summer helping lay water and gas lines in the Michigan backwoods, used to try to grow dwarf pines and spruces in his' college dorm room, and approaches his possible Tanganyika assignment with awe: "It could be the most important single thing that I'll do in my life...
...search of a Harvard education. In recent years, College officials talked eloquently about the obligation to expand. Stopping their ears to anguished complaints from the undergraduates, they converted singles into doubles with the purchase of several double-decker "bunk beds." Overcrowding reached its peak a year ago, with one dorm housing more than double the number of students it had been designed...
...results within a year. One month ago the President announced that Radcliffe will begin a sweeping revision of its housing system next Fall, reorganizing the dormitory Quadrangle into four living units similar to the Harvard Houses. Although physical changes will be deferred till the year after next, a new dorm will be built in the near future. In the meantime, the present halls will be grouped into three units Comstock, Moors, and Holmes Halls will combine to form North House; Briggs, Barnard, and Bertram, South House; and Cabot, Whitman, Eliot, and the new co-operatives, East House. The off-campus...
...expects the men will come to Radcliffe more frequently as the women's Houses instigate their own co-educational projects. The affiliation between Quincy and Holmes in extra-curricular activities will continue, as will that between Winthrop and Comstock for tutorial and occasional departmental dinners. Nevertheless, no new House-dorm co-operative ventures are now being planned...
...future, President Bunting effected some changes immediately. For the first time, a substantial amount of money became available for the undergraduates to use "to enrich College life." A $5,000 gift from Harvard, supplemented by donations from Radcliffe alumnae, went into the new President's Fund last Fall. Every dorm and off-campus house received $1 per resident to spend as the majority wished. While the students haggled over the relative merits of television sets, sewing machines, and pictures for the walls, Mrs. Bunting and her Advisory Committee appointed six students to the President's Fund Board. Throughout the year...