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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rule which, for the welfare of the House plan and the Harvard undergraduates, should be vastly modified. Incipient protests at Harvard and successful precedents at Cambridge both point to the importance and value of changing the announced plans, and leaving the undergraduates at least a good-sized of their present freedom...
...tutors connected with the House will be one of the ties that bind the community there together into an academic unity. Something will also be gained by attaching to each House a few professors who do not tutor, but will give it their support and be occasionally present at its table...
Each House is intended to comprise as nearly as may be a cross-section of the whole residential membership of the college, to be selected by the Masters and their assistants from the applicants. I say from the applicants because there seems at present little doubt that for the two new Houses, to be finished in September, 1930, there will be more than applicants enough of all kinds: and when the plan is complete, students are unlikely to want to be left out of a system substantially universal. I should add that the applications may be made individually...
...understood that the present proposal of the required minimum is due to the dictation of the Bursar's office. This organization finds it impossible to operate the dining halls in any other fashion without losing money: Its decision must be taken as final since it has had thorough experience in this field...
...admittedly futile and out of place. It remains only to settle the details of the Plan's operation in such a way as to make the Plan as acceptable as possible to the largest number of people. The point cannot be too strongly emphasized that virtually all the present plans for the operation of the two houses are still in a fluid state. Those in charge are anxious that this flexibility be maintained as long as possible after the Houses are in operation and fully intend to make modifications in these plans as soon as and in whatever direction...