Word: leverett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unofficial fall term "rank-listings" indicate that Leverett House may end the year with the top House academic record, after a five-year rise from a position at the bottom of the House grades standings...
While pointing out that the mid-year figures are only "highly suggestive presumptive evidence," Richard T. Gill, Senior Tutor of Leverett House, stated that "no House will be substantially better, unless there is a radical change in pattern this spring...
Despite a sharp rise in the number of required withdrawals in the College's upperclass group last term, there were "virtually no academic failures" in Leverett House. The number of House students with unsatisfactory standings was eight per cent, a low figure for "any House at any time," Gill added...
...Masters decided at a recent meeting that "the pre-war system of providing some rooms in the Houses for graduate students is a good one," according to David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House. When the Leverett Towers open in September, 1960, the Houses will have "at least 150 new places, perhaps more," Owen said...
Since the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is already represented in the Houses by the resident tutors, the graduate students would come from the Business, Law, and Medical schools. "These students could act as career advisors to undergraduates," explained John J. Conway, Master of Leverett...