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Harvard currently faces a two--and possibly three-way choice of action in regard to Mather House's opening. It can end all off-campus living for undergraduates, or it can deconvert rooms in the existing Houses and at the same increase room rents to defray the additional operating expenses of the new House. The third possibility, increasing the size of Harvard College classes to fill the new House, is considered unlikely...
Ford said after the meeting that the sub-committee would probably concern itself chiefly with the first two choices for Mather House--deconversion and higher rents or ending off-campus living...
Dean Watson said in a recent interview that the College wants to encourage students to move off-campus. This is surely a welcome decision, for by the wonderous process of laissez-faire it will permit those students to leave the Houses who have wanted to do so and provide space for those denied entry because of crowding. It might also give the College an opportunity to deconvert over-full quarters...
...only remains for the Administration to publicize this new policy and to remove those beauracratic tangles which make moving off-campus unduly complicated and, at times, expensive...
...measure will cause no additional administration headaches. If, however, many students are eager to move but have been discouraged from applying because of uncertainty about their prospects or the attitude of the College, there will then be room in the Houses for those men previously forced to live off-campus...