Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most objections to the Fox Plan came from Quad residents who felt an absence of freshmen would change the atmosphere of the Quad dramatically, and that the Quad would therefore lose its appeal along with its freshmen. The difficulty, however, was that some freshmen who used to live at the Quad felt they were missing something by not living in the Yard...
...particular plan is going to solve that problem. The Quad has to be integrated into the University. Rather than the Fox Plan, more classes should be help up at the Quad, and any future College building should take place there so that it become a part of the lives of all the people at Harvard," Joan D. Channick '78 of Leverett House says...
Quad problems aside, freshman year is a unique experience in University life, and in part an underlying reason for the Fox Plan. "You can make a list of the stresses of freshman year and they all add up to what George Goethals calls the 'crisis of adolescence,'" Moses says, pointing out the classic case of the freshman who leaves home, where he has succeeded at everything he has tried, and finds great difficulty dealing with freedom and with academic and social demands...
Strategies such as this one were very common, and students relied on housing polls to give them hints as to which houses are the most popular. However, Quad Houses were among the least popular, and this situation was only aggravated by the Fox Plan...
...Houses and River Houses. "Some Houses are way over-subscribed, some are way undersubscribed. I think more people are willing to accept the premise that they will have a wellrounded Harvard experience at any House. It's not a matter of life or death which architecture they live in," Fox says...