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Lebensraum. To a great extent that's what the new House will mean. Fewer strained feelings per square foot and an escape from the barbarism of bunk beds...
...eighth House will probably also mean an increase in enrollment, which eventually may neutralize its original therapeutic effects, and it will unavoidably mean a split system of housing--a choice between an elaborate old room and a utilitarian, and more private, new one. The differences between the old Houses and the new will spell disparity, one way or the other, in most students' eyes, and may create problems for the Administration which it doesn't yet anticipate...
...Treat me mean and cruel...
After the petition was officially presented to the Committee, the group was legally required either to revoke the appointments or to give the document to the City Council "immediately." The majority, however, claimed that "immediately" could mean 30 days, and it was voted by the usual 5-2 majority to lay the matter on the table...
...Dodds, president of Princeton, emphasized that the step involves no radical change. "In arriving at these conclusions," he said, "the committee states explicitly that plans for dormitories containing dining and social facilities for men in clubs, and living quarters for both club members and nonclub members do not mean a radical change-over in the total campus pattern...