Word: quad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ingrid Waldron '61 started to get up from one of the stone seats in the Radcliffe Quad yesterday, she accidentally set off a planted explosive which burned both her arms...
...yellow frame house in the corner of the Radcliffe quad at 67 Brattle St. is being considered as a possible location of the proposed Harvard-Radcliffe Student Activities Center, it was learned last night. Dean Watson met with Annex Trustees last week to discuss tentative plans for the center...
...popularity of Wilson Lodge and the enthusiasm which greeted the plans for the new Quad represent a challenge to the club system. Opinions vary on how the clubs will meet it. One theory says that they will try to broaden themselves intellectually in order to compete with the alternative on its own terms; another says they will retreat into their social shell and let those with intellectual predilections go elsewhere--in this version, they will become much like the the Harvard clubs, small and selective...
...Quad will not be a copy of a Harvard House or a Yale College, Goheen and Lippincott insist. Princeton plans to have no Master or faculty supervisor running the installation, and has no intention of decentralizing its academic or disciplinary administration down to a Quad level. Faculty members will live in the Quad and eat in the dining room, but they will not have any formal responsibilities. But Goheen and Lippincott hope that this informal student-faculty contact will make for a "closer interpenetration of academic and non-academic life...
...from letting some clubs fold and allowing much of the student body to desert the club system, Prospect Street will accomodate the more academically-orientated atmosphere of the New Princeton. He sees "hopeful signs of the clubs' trying to offer some of the quasi-academic virtues of the Quad system." The next few years, as Wilson Lodge and the Quad grow, will determine the accuracy of Goheen's prediction...