Word: dunsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Additional dining space would be made available in the Dunster dining hall if plans to eliminate an adjoining suite and create a private dining room materialize. Dunster's Small Common Room, which is now used for special dinners, would be restored to its original use if this change were made. A similar change is contemplated in Lowell House...
Perhaps those left behind may prefer to spend an evening at one of the three House beach parties. Kirkland House is "featuring sand, surf, campfires and conviviality, cheer, and informal singing and guitar playing." Dunster will build "one large fire for those who do not wish to have their own somewhere on the great expanse of beach...
Many of the Saturday night dances will be given in their traditional forms again this year. Lowell has added a picnic supper with "top-quality hamburgers" to their Courtyard Dance fare; there will be a Kirkland "Mississippi Showboat" and a Dunster "Masquerade Dance." The Dunster committee has promised that "prizes will be given for the best costumes and the least-dressed girl...
...Society has moved from its original meeting place in Grays through a succession of upstairs rooms, to its present permanent location in the building on the corner of Dunster and Mt. Auburn streets. The purchase of the building in 1902 was made possible largely through the gift of James H. Hyde '98, supplemented by donations made through Signet's alumni association. The weekly meetings Friday evening have grown into daily luncheons and Sunday suppers. Guests may be brought at any time, including undergraduates from Harvard. In concession to the spirit of the Old Signet, ladies are permitted only Sunday evenings...
Carroll F. Miles, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dunster House, has defined somewhat unique reasons for leaving: "The curious type is the student who leaves in January of his senior year. This is a person who is potentially bright but who has done nothing in college. He wants to go away in order that he can come back and have one great year. In some cases, usually seniors, students leave to postpone their occupational choice another year. Of course, sophomore year is the crucial one for most, a natural time to leave...