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...hard to be a Dudley house student then—the Houses were more the center of social life than they are now,” said Jonathan A. Lieberman ’85, who had transferred to Harvard from Amherst. “Every House had its own personality because it wasn’t a lottery—it wasn’t random. It wasn’t that easy to be a transfer student. I was trying to make friends and feel like I was a part of the House community on the river...
...student housing—an essential component of the Harvard undergraduate experience—was on the verge of major transformation...
Administrators considered moving freshmen into the upperclass Houses, converting the iconic Yard dormitories into individual Houses, or constructing new housing options altogether. As students during the “Program for Harvard College”—a fundraising effort enacted by President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 in fall 1956 that raised $82.5 million for several campus initiatives in about three years—the Class of 1960 witnessed the establishment of Quincy House in 1959 and the construction of the Leverett Towers...
...Massachusetts Transit Authority. The negotiations stretched from 1955 to 1966 and pitted the University against Cambridge City Council officials—particularly Alfred “Big Al” E. Velucci—who were opposed to the idea of a tax-exempt organization such as Harvard taking over an even larger share of lucrative Cambridge real estate...
...Dean of Harvard College John U. Monro ’34 argued that relocating freshmen to the Houses would only make it easier for the class to get to know one another. In the spring of 1960, Monro told The Crimson that the main debate was over building new Houses or overfilling older ones, discounting other administrators’ claims that the new plan would profoundly affect the Harvard social community...