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...Houses had already used other techniques to cut the overflow down to its present level. Last week there were 62 vacancies in the Houses, 87 floaters, and 48 returnees. To deal with this situation Dean Watson removed the quota on off-campus living and allowed the Masters to give permission to live off campus to those juniors and seniors who wished to do so. In some Houses, such as Adams, the quota of 28 set last May by Dean Watson was exceeded, in others it was not. The vacancies created were filled by floaters. If there were any left over...
These solutions, swapping, and forcing people to live off-campus, are all emergency measures, Watson said...
...College is now facing its worst housing shortage since the post-war years. The facts, as of last week, were these: nearly 75 upperclassmen, who wanted to live in the Houses, were without rooms; many students returning to College after time away were being forced to find accommodations off-campus; and some Houses were preparing to make more space available by converting doubles to triples, and triples to quads...
Last January Dean Watson set a limit of 20 students in each House who could live off-campus. In the Spring, perceiving that things might be a little tight in the fall, he raised each quota to 28. Most Houses failed to fulfill their quota, bu tat least one, Adams, had far more applicants to live off than the quota permitted. Instead of raising the Adams Houses failed to fill their quota, but at least one, other Houses, the administration remained rigid. Thus in the Spring it denied off-campus status to many students, and in the fall, to open...
Whether off-campus living is a good or bad policy is now almost irrelevant. Harvard, for as long as the war in Vietnam continues and the 10th House remains unbuilt, is going to have to permit a large number of students to live off. The Houses, even with more conversion, simply cannot absorb the added population...