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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have little weight. The friendships that are most prized in later years are those formed, not by the accidental rooming in the same entry, but by the influence of a common interest, or work in a common activity. In the two and a half years that I have lived in the Yard, I have failed to discover that the hap-hazard system has justified itself in any very marked degree: for it has in most cases fostered only acquaintances, whereas community of interest gives rise to friendships. There is nothing very snobbish about finding one man more congenial than another...
...years past and with the violent protests of the undergraduates un-heeded, the Corporation has continued to authorize the Bursar to give preference in the allotment of rooms in Hollis and Stoughton to double applications for single rooms. Using a single room for living and sleeping is distinctly unpleasant and not infrequently unhealthy. Granted that there were room for two beds, desks, bureaus, book-cases, tables, and the like, in these rooms, which there is not, it is still asking too much to expect one tired man to lie awake while his room-mate pounds his typewriter or entertains...
...Stoughton are occupied by one man only, so that the number accommodated will by no means be cut in half; and as to the expense, men need not apply for two rooms as a double suite unless they so desire. This long-sought privilege will enable men to live with greatly increased comfort, and should prove a tremendous boon to the whole Senior dormitory system...
...some opposition. The officers of the class have devised a scheme by means of which men wishing to room in the Senior dormitories may apply in groups of 14, this number being just sufficient to fill an entry. This arrangement affords a splendid opportunity for groups of friends to live together. The men who have formulated this plan realize, however, that it is not possible for the entire class to break up into groups of 14, and have therefore made arrangements whereby groups of eight, four and even two men, may be assigned rooms in the dormitories. All this...
...Harding emphasized the fact that this new system will enable the small units in which every class is divided to live close together and, by learning each others' points of view, prevent the rupture and disunion which have in some former years ruined all class unity and life after graduation. The next speaker, A. Gregg, praised the new method in that it enabled men to have some sincere reason for rooming in the Yard and did away with the custom of applying simply because it was a thing generally done by most of the class. P. D. Smith, denying...