Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...varied as possible, especially since the rooms will be occupied by the same man for three years in succession. The difficulties in the way of achieving a goal of real individuality for each suite are largely financial and the House Masters deserve all support possible in whatever opposition they may meet from the Bursar's office in its ultimate achievement. The rugs, which it is proposed to rent to House Members, for instance, should be sufficiently varied in design to allow of real selection and no sacrifice be made to the economies to be derived from standardization...
Substantial as the foundation may be, the Houses could not have been built thereon had it not been for the fact that Mr. Edward S. Harkness, quite unaware of our vision for the future, formed the opinion that a subdivision of a large American college would tend to solve many of its problems. He magnanimously offered to defray the cost involved, and found at Harvard an enthusiastic welcome to his ideas...
...formed on a similar pattern. It is intended, therefore, that each should contain two hundred and fifty undergraduates, more or less, about equally divided among the three upper classes. They will be admitted to the House as sophomores, and although a transfer to another House for proper reasons may not be excluded, they will normally make it their home throughout the rest of their college course. They will be required to take, or rather to pay for--a less objectionable way of attaining the same practical result--a certain number of meals in the dining-room every week. Each...
...reason why separate halls for the freshmen should be retained. This is contrary to the views of some good friends, who do not appreciate the obstacles to be surmounted in carrying out the House plan, and urge that it would be better to include the freshmen in them. What may be possible at some future time, when the system has been so long in use as to create a firm tradition in the minds of prospective students, of their parents, and of headmasters of schools, is a different question...
Each House is intended to comprise as nearly as may be a cross-section of the whole residential membership of the college, to be selected by the Masters and their assistants from the applicants. I say from the applicants because there seems at present little doubt that for the two new Houses, to be finished in September, 1930, there will be more than applicants enough of all kinds: and when the plan is complete, students are unlikely to want to be left out of a system substantially universal. I should add that the applications may be made individually...