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Graduating seniors said that living in the Houses has prepared them to enter the next stage of their lives. For Cerullo, the Quincy House community has given him “a certain sense of confidence,” he said.
At several House receptions, former and soon-to-be-former students expressed a sense of unity, and alumni at the gatherings said that they shared the same emotional connection to their Houses as do current students.
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 ?...
But some House Masters saw the proposed changes as having potentially profound effects.
John J. Conway, then the Master of Leverett House, opposed the plan to convert the Yard dormitories into three distinct Houses because, as he told The Crimson on April 22, 1960, the Yard, as the historic “core” of the campus, was “the...