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...what was has become known as Yale-style housing were ridiculed as foolish and counterproductive. The scheme, many claimed, would deprive freshmen of their right to choose the group of friends with whom they would live as upperclassmen. Class unity would be jeopardized, and those freshmen assigned to Quad houses would spend their entire first years in a state of profound depression, dreading the move up Garden Sreet...
...would undermine the unity of the freshman class by dividing it into Houses before the start of the school year. But is this kind of class unity really a significant part of the undergraduate experience at Harvard? With students sprinkled along the River and as far away as the Quad, class unity ceases to exist after freshman year, anyway. And since freshman dorms would remain in the Yard and freshmen would still eat together in Annenberg, there would be ample opportunity to preserve some kind of class identity within a Yale-style system, even as freshmen are able to take...
...further objection is to assigning freshmen to the Quad houses before their arrival, which would apparently condemn them to a miserable year of dread and anxiety. In reality, however, a year of being involved in the vibrant communities of the Quad houses is possibly the best way to attempt to alleviate the stigma of being Quad-ed. The adjustments that most Quad sophomores make in their first semester could be made gradually over a whole year, easing the transition to Harvards most remote Houses...
...junior wide receiver Corey Mazza pedaled his bicycle back to the Quad during football preseason this fall, he got a more stunning hit from behind than any Ivy cornerback could deliver...
Starting in September, there will be five new shuttles, including an extra-large shuttle bus designated for morning pick-up in the Quad...