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Although the Administration has recognized the problem and is planning a tenth House to relieve the pressure, no accomodations have been provided for the overflow during the transitional period before the tenth House is ready for occupation. The obvious solution is to permit more students to live off-campus...
Applications for next year's housing arrangements have proved particularly frustrating for a large number of students who have requested either single hooms or permission to move off-campus. Scarce single rooms are allocated almost invariably to Seniors who will be writing honors theses. It is virtually impossible for a Sophomore to be accomodated in a single for his Junior year, and in some Houses not even all the thesis-writing Seniors are granted singles...
Prehequisites for moving off-campus are at least as stringent, and as a general rule no House allows more than 20 students "off." To be eligible, students usually have to fall into one of the following categories: financially incapable of paying for room and board, a Junior (who will be a Senior the following year), 23 years of age or older, mentally or physically unfit for dormitory life, or in need of more space for special scholastic projects. But permission is not always granted even to students who can legitimately qualify under these conditions...
...Administration has limited off-campus living for a number of reasons. Primarily it argues that Harvard must remain a residential college, a melting pot in which all types of students learn through interaction in the Houses. The House, it contends, is the place where a student can talk to his professor over dinner, out of the academic setting, and a place where the student will be exposed to many different opinions during the evening "bull sessions...
Having spent a year in the House system and two years at Harvard, a student should be able to tell whether the dormitory atmosphere is stimulating or stifling. Allowing these students to make a choice will not impair the House system, while refusing them permission to move off-campus will only increase their hostility towards the House. Furthermore it is highly unlikely that students will demand to move off-campus in large numbers, simply because of the convenient location and facilities of the Houses...