Word: roomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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 a new one. In the early Thirties, a graduate wrote to the Alumni Bulletin...
...existing seven Houses can physically make room for extra seats in the dining room, common room, and library, why not a supercargo of 'forgotten men' who, for a proper fee, can become attached to a selected House, grow up with it for three years, and take part in weekday luncheons, House athletics, special dinners, and social gatherings? In other words, become a recognized part of the House for all but breakfast, routine dinner, evening study, and sleeping quarters...
Asked to suggest physical improvements for Dudley, commuters gave a long list, including more room for quiet studying, better game room, more gracious dining hall, junior common "that isn't just an entrance hall," several small meeting rooms, and shower facilities. Other notable items: more lockers and coat-racks, a coffee shop, "huge" parking lot, evening meals, larger bunkroom, bicycle and scooter parking, and most of all--a new, centralized facility designed with the commuting student in mind...
Higher considerations aside, the waiting-on program is run with a minimum of efficient organization and a maximum of wasted effort. Most of the students involved--the number varies from four to eleven for each meal, depending on the size of the dormitory--scurry around the dining room getting in one another's way. The others dry dishes which, if left for five minutes, would dry better in the air. Naturally enough, the student waitress deplores the time she wastes in this fashion and hurries the meal as much as possible. The inevitable result is that College meals are eaten...
...best solution, from the standpoint of efficiency and in the interests of gracious living, would be a staff of professional waitresses. Radcliffe has no money for such an extravagance, but there is an alternate solution--a system under which all students would pay a slightly higher price for room and board. Girls in need of extra money might wait on tables for a small but reasonable salary. Consequently, the system would create a new area of student employment, in which several girls could make a substantial sum of money each year. The program would also free those who dislike waiting...