Word: dorm
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Combining dorms into three or four Houses--each containing about 275 students and 25 Faculty affiliates--will end what in the past has been a serious objection to the dormitories: that they are too small to allow people to avoid each other. Group pressures that seem smotheringly oppressive in a dorm are less noticeable in larger units, and students in the Houses will have room to be more selective about their acquaintances...
...Cliffies frequently and justly complain that the dorm system provides few opportunities for sustained informal contact with faculty members. What little association there is between the faculty and Radcliffe girls under the present system--teas, special dinners, sherries--is inevitably stilted and artificial. And while the funereal atmosphere of these semi-official gatherings lend itself to mockery, the lack of contact with older minds remains one of the most serious defects in a Radcliffe education. The new Houses are to have a ratio of resident and affiliate associates roughly equivalent to that of the Harvard House...
Next year, Comotock, Moors, and Holmes Hall 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 houses, eventually to be replaced by the new dorm, probably will form West House...
...walls of my room in Pennypacker 42. Next door, the proctors negate the L. Trevor principle of Harvardian dignity. After the dull roar or the incipient party became audible, my next door neighbor kindly said, "Hope you can stand another hour of this." Two hours later, after the whole dorm has spent a great deal of time in semi-riot, the proctorian rumble continues, and I have given up hope of finishing my Friday math assignment and getting the hum paper done. My gripe is that, first, it is unfair to conduct such a bolsterous affair on a Thursday night...
What is needed is a set of controls, such as an equal number of Freshman letter winners, geniuses, and preppies in every House. But beyond this, the extension of arbitrariness would destroy existing house solidarity and increase the sense that the House was merely a dorm to which the student owned no allegiance or personal commitment...