Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The boy with the draft card had told Freshmen he was 19. He told the police he was 22. In the same dorm he said that he had previously been working at three cents a week to pay off the orphanage, now in Indiana, for the money it had spent...
Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, agreed that graduate students "would be a pleasant addition," but doubted that any could be accomodated next year. "Too many students have already asked for deconversion," Perkins stated, "to permit graduate students into the House."
Undergraduates should have "first claim" on any deconverted rooms, John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, commented. Both Finley and Owen emphasized that space might be made for "exceptional" graduate students, given the present problem of crowding, but no larger number could join the Houses.
Hitting Quincy House, Perkins, Matthews, Holworthy, Greenough, and Thayer Halls, the orphans were so persuasive that at one point they sent a prospective customer running through the halls looking for fellow buyers. In Thayer Middle alone the salesmen collected almost $50.
Calling three days later on Thayer Hall, the youths mentioned a conference for orphans they were attending, adding that they had already won the subscription contest but were penalized for being late and therefore had to bring in extra money.