Word: quad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...individual can pay as $620 although in the shifting of prices some of the individual amounts went up to as high as $660. At Yale, however, the tuition is $50 more and only a limited number of rooms in Harkness quadrangle have private baths. None in the old quad have private baths. At Princeton no rooms run as high as at Harvard but they have no private baths and are not furnished at all. At Princeton the tuition is also $50 higher than at Harvard...
...various times during the course of last spring, the Princetonian had occasion to express itself as heartily in favor of the Quad Plan. While not attempting to copy the system exactly as found in Oxford and Cambridge, we have felt that much good might be derived from such an adaptation as might seem applicable to the peculiar conditions in American colleges. We admitted that the Quad Plan, at the present time, stood in our eyes rather as a symbol of social progress than as a ready working system which could be applied tomorrow and could be trusted to uproot...
...Yale, we note, the Quads will house about 250 students which seems just about an ideal size. With that number it will be easy for everyone to know all his housemates, and for congeniality to result. It is naturally impossible, and undesirable, for all to be intimate with each other. Such an idea is absurd. Smaller groups of intimate friends within the Quad will develop, which is for the best, and wholly natural...
...first few years the system may be rather ungainly, but eventually, after the first class has spent four years under the plan, each Quad will probably take on a character of its own, which will attract students of like minds and sympathies...
Freshmen, under the new plan at Yale, will not be a part of the Quad system. Their dormitories will be separate, and students will make their applications for entry into the various Quads at the end of the first year. This is an excellent feature, which will give the undergraduates a chance to orient themselves before deciding which Quad to enter...