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...Forty years later, Lowell turned the focus towards undergraduates, outlining his plan for a new system of concentration and distribution requirements. He suggested tutorial instruction and first-year residence halls...
...solutions are a matter of decades: Loker Commons should be renovated over the summer, and a system of live-in residential assistants for first-year students could be in place by the time classes start next fall. But the planning required for even these comparatively simple improvements could mean that students will not enjoy the benefits of change in the immediate future...
...Programs like the First-year Outdoor Program have already demonstrated that upperclass students are more than responsible enough to take on the role of mentor, advisor and friend to first-year students. If Harvard students can be trusted to guide first-years through the wilderness for a week before the year begins, they can certainly be trusted to guide first-years through their initial semesters at Harvard College...
Bringing R.A.’s to the Yard would help foster first-year community. But additional steps must be taken to revitalize the Houses as centers of undergraduate life. Randomization has brought diversity to the Houses, an admirable goal we support, but it cannot be denied that the Houses have lost their former sense of community in the process...
Jonathan P. Abel ’05 is a first-year living in Stoughton Hall...