Word: quad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...significant fact about the new quad is that the University is committed to find space in the "alternative" for everyone who is interested. Wilson has already outgrown the part of Commons originally allotted to it, and another hall is now being converted for its use. Dean Lippincott says that if demand exceeds the space in the new Quad, more buildings will be built or existing space converted to meet the needs. It is conceivable that in the future--say in ten years--a majority of Princeton will be living in such Quad arrangements, though no-one is willing to hazard...
...Houses have as many tutors as they can stand now, and several Masters have indicated they will not take any more. In the smaller fields, there is no reason why tutors affiliated with a House should have to tramp back and forth between the Houses and the Quad when they could handle mixed groups in the Houses, but in the popular Radcliffe fields, such as English, History and Lit, and Social Relations, there would be girls left over after the Houses had taken all they could...
...quad will be built at a little distance from the dormitories, and a good walk from the clubs. The first two-hundred man unit will house students and tutors together, a 5,000 to 10,000 volume library, common rooms and a dining hall--all in the same building. The later two units will be linked onto the central building...
...quad will come off a little better, and a little worse, than Quincy in internal layout. The facility will be designed in the entry system, with a single study connecting three or four bedrooms. The quad will have nothing smaller than triples for undergraduates...
...money to give but they hold back, first of all because the majority of them don't want any alternative to the club system, no matter how "meaningful" President Goheen says it is; secondly, potential contributors who are interested don't like the idea that the plans for the quad are a major step out of the 'Princeton pattern,' which they consider unquie and worthy of being preserved...