Word: dunsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dunster is not without its shortcomings, as even its most vehement booster would admit. In recent years the House composition has been overbalanced toward the sciences and social sciences, particularly government, with a corresponding scarcity of humanities concentrators...
Also, the extra-curricular emphasis in the House has tended toward the athletic at the expense of other fields. Four consecutive Straus Trophies were the result. A singing group, the Dunster Dunces, was the main exception, and is still the most colorful such group at the University...
This year great strides have been taken to redress these unbalances. A Dunster Music-Drama Society was formed, which will produce Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Medium" and "The Telephone." With the Ford Foundation grants, Dunster established two practical workshops, in drama and in visual arts. The workshops meet weekly, and occasionally have guest professionals for brief talks...
Like the other Houses, Dunster possesses an underground rest and play area, equipped with pool and ping pong tables, a television room, and eight squash courts. For entertainment of another type, the House offers sporadic smokers and popular dances. But its chief gift remains that of a convivial atmosphere...
...that makes a house popular is hard to determine. Sometimes it is the existence of a popular stereotype, but these are as changeable as the winds of rumor. In 1948, for example, the CRIMSON described Eliot House as "tending to cliques" and "bibulous enthusiasm," and noted that Dunster had been called a "hotbed of Spanish insurgents...