Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simplest way to keep these men in the houses would be ultimately to discard cross-sections altogether. But the present generation in college may still enjoy the benefits of genuine cross-sections if the houses can be made attractive enough to draw in the men that now prefer to live outside...
...petition asking a special breakfast rate shows beyond a doubt that many who board outside prefer to live in the houses. Though such men as a rule comprise the wealthiest group in the college, to offer them a breakfast rate based on actual food costs cannot be regarded as an unfair privilege for the rich, particularly when the advantages of having them in the houses are considered. Furthermore the college does not stand to lose, as lunch and dinner would be served at the regular charges...
After young Ross has entered college, Dr. Ross stops his activities as guardian angel believing that his son is equipped to live alone. It appears to be a successful policy because he emerges from the confusion of study and girls which is present in every state university with a clear philosophy of living...
Oxford and Cambridge have for centuries employed the doctrine regarding this problem, that "birds of a feather flock together", and there is no reason to believe that the expression would not fit Harvard conditions equally will. Specifically, men should be permitted as far as possible to live in the House of their choice. Groups applying together for admission should be permitted several perfectly frank consultations with the House Master or Senior Tutor. Facts and figures should not be withheld from the student, as it is his privilege to know what he is going...
...therefore, would be assured in each House after the accomodations had been reshuffled and definitely arranged. Instead of seven second-rate boarding houses, the Houses could become real entities, composed of inmates of kindred spirit, and possessing separate characteristics and personalities. Men would no longer leave the Houses to live in quarters which, repugnant in themselves, are employed only because they assure congenial living companions...