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...columns devoted to that subject. I refer to the fate of the many clubs and fraternities at Harvard under the House Plan. It is difficult to make any predictions, since there is so little positive data from which to predict. Nevertheless it appears certain that the new system, once instituted, will have an immediate and important effect on all the undergraduate social organizations at Harvard. It seems everyone is agreed that the outlook for the fraternities and clubs is serious, not to say alarming. It would be desirable to know what attitude the administration will adopt towards the existence...
...announcement in today's CRIMSON of a minimum board charge of $7.50 in the new Houses comes as a gesture of sympathy to the widespread opinion that the former charge was too high. A few men will benefit by the change, but the chief evil in the system has in no way been mitigated. With an average price of $.75 per meal, only the most wealthy can afford to take advantage of the plan and by eating breakfast in the House free themselves from the necessity of eating a disproportionate number of lunches and dinners there. Since these...
...goes away weekends, has a club, and is forced carefully to budget his board allowance is still in as bad a position as before. The difference of four meals is absurdly out of proportion with the one dollar reduction in price of the new proposal. In other words the man who selects the lower rate will have to pay an average of $.25 for the four extra meals or lose money. At current club or restaurant prices this is impossible or at least unhealthy. Those men not in a position to lose money are still penalized, a situation hardly...
...prominence of the "Sophomore 4" in sports reviews in which the quartet, composed of W. B. Wood Jr. '32. E. A. Mays, Jr. '32, B. D. White '32, and Charles Devens '32, takes its place beside the immortals of former years. George, Trevor, a recognized critic writing for the New York Sun, compares the Sophomore quartet to the 1929 edition of the Notre Dame horsemen and adds that while football history is studded with backfields as good or better than the "Four Furies" ... "we wouldn't trade Harvard's sophomore quartet for the present Notre Dame array. Mays...
Edward Carl Dieckerhoff, of New York City...