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...residential houses can only accommodate a fixed number of students. However, Harvard's operating budget requires the College to enroll approximately 400 more tuition-paying "student equivalents" than it has beds in the residential houses. The system works because the extra students have traditionally chosen to live off-campus and affiliate with Dudley...
Transfer students complain about this situtation because they are given less choice of house affiliation than other students. The College administration has therefore experimented with affiliation rules and introduced special kinds of off-campus housing...
After long negotiations, the College this fall opened the Lehman Hall dining room for dinner and began subsidizing off-campus housing in nearby Harvard-owned buildings. While these innovations have mitigated some transfer students' complaints, they have also altered the nature of the house, say the Loebs. "Annex housing makes us a half-residential house," Arthur Loeb says...
...University Hall and asked if I would be allowed to transfer to a house that had space. The Housing officer told me that I had not spent the necessary two terms of residence in a residential house to be allowed to transfer interhouse. I was thus stuck with living off-campus for another of my few years at Harvard because I had chosen a crowded house. Why she allowed David to transfer without the two terms prerequisite is beyond me. If some of the houses are undercrowded, it would be best to let transfer students move into them. That...
David was lucky to find space in Mather. I am also lucky to be living in a house finally. However, for many other transfers, their waiting is not yet over. For sophomore transfers, each year off-campus is a third of their time at Harvard. For junior transfers, it can be half of their time. Of course, living on-campus is not the nirvana of Harvard existence, but arbitrarily denying transfer students a chance to live on-campus when space is available is not justifiable. I hope that space will not continue to be jealously hoarded by Housing officers while...