Word: residental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Monro and Leighton, however, feel that many of the best qualified students in Greater Boston high schools are not even applying to the College--apparently preferring residency in a second-class college to the trials of commuting. If Harvard makes its non-resident operation more attractive, they argue, the...
Feeling that college is the time to "cut the umbilical cord, make friends, and see what residency is like," Bender proposes splitting the non-resident upperclassmen into seven groups, assigning each to a House, where a "day room" with lockers and perhaps showers would be provided. His idea is not...
Even of Dudley House does succeed in attracting a hard core of "resident commuters," however, its problems as a commuter center are far from solved. In an article in the Dudley Reporter (the House's dittographed newspaper), a student claims that, for 80 per cent of commuters, "Dudley is no...
About a third get to the Square by bike or on foot, and their average time for a one-way trip is 15 minutes. Another third who drive or get rides with friends take about a half hour, and the others come by public transportation, averaging 45 minutes per trip...
Asked to react to "second-class citizen" as a "stock phrase," the majority considered it--and rejected it--as a description of the commuter, the most typical comment being "nonsense" followed by one of more exclamation points. Others, however, saw a "grain of truth." "Many commuters suffer from an inferiority...