Word: processers
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Through careful planning--reminiscent of social engineering--the new process aimed to please students while organizing houses into a thorough mix of the student body...
Assistant Dean of Freshmen W.C. Burriss Young '55 recalls the application process for the houses as "sort of like applying to college." Some of the more serious masters would go so far as to pull students' admissions folders from the Freshmen Dean's Office, Young says...
Student choice was on the rise, however. In 1959, 66 percent of freshmen gained entrance to their top choice. In 1965, the last year of this process, 70 percent received their first choice...
Outraged students petitioned and protested. A lottery was proposed, but the new Dean of the College Charles P. Whitlock said such a process "doesn't fit into the Harvard way of doing things...
Protest changed Whitlock's mind in 1974. The Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life created a partial lottery system, from which the current housing lottery process has evolved...