Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In 1919 the Administration closed Memorial Hall as a dining room, and for the next six years everyone in the University had to "eat out" in the Square, if he were to eat at all.
Of the students who lived elsewhere, many were poor and lived wretchedly in isolated cold-water flats, blocks or miles from the University. The greatest disparity was between these and the fortunate few--the rich and the "clubbies"--who maintained luxurious private dormitories on the "Gold Coast" of Mount Auburn...
"The key to many of our college problems would seem to lie in the establishment of a series of Freshman dormitories with dining halls," he wrote in 1910. "This... would give far greater opportunity for men from different schools and from different parts of the country to mix together and...
Although a total of eight new halls for freshmen were built in the next 15 years, only five of these had attached dining halls (these halls were later converted to Houses), and none of them seemed to achieve the socio-economic sifting Lowell had envisioned. The housing situation had improved...
Then the unexpected happened. One day late in 1928, Edward S.Harkness, Yale '97, walked into Lowell's office and offered him $3 million to build an "Honors College," with a resident master and tutors, for members of the three upper classes. Because Yale had spurned Harkness's offer, Harvard became...