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While the Houses ought not to be in all respects exactly alike, or precisely of the same size, they should in general be formed on a similar pattern. It is intended, therefore, that each should contain two hundred and fifty undergraduates, more or less, about equally divided among the three...
The crucial point is the selection of the students for each House. No college in the country, perhaps in the world, has a larger variety of undergraduates, coming from more different kinds of schools, than Harvard. This renders the selection for each House more difficult, and at the same time...
To us it seemed that a compulsory mixing for a single year would not be resented, that it would be regarded very differently from an arbitrary assortment for the whole college course, and that at the end of that year many new attachments would have been formed among men who...
At the time these Halls were projected the question of dividing the college into residential groups was as yet very remote, but quite apart from such an ultimate-object it was felt that to treat the Freshmen in this way had merits which made it eminently worthwhile, and the Halls...
Each House is intended to comprise as nearly as may be a cross-section of the whole residential membership of the college, to be selected by the Masters and their assistants from the applicants. I say from the applicants because there seems at present little doubt that for the two...