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...factor keeping private schools head and shoulders above public in terms of personal attention to students is allotting more time to teachers, both through reducing class size and allowing teachers more free periods during...
Dean Harry R. Lewis '68, however, offered something resembling a definition of "House community" in his memo to students earlier this year. He wrote that cutting blocking group size will help students to become more familiar with others in their House, and will ensure that each House represents the diversity of students' interests and backgrounds...
Lewis' critics have responded that a genuine love of the House and its traditions, not blocking group size, creates House community. These critics are right, but all traditions are not created equal. It is worth asking which House traditions contribute to its community, and how House traditions inform the debate over the reduction in blocking group size...
...Masters' teas in Lowell House and Masters' open houses in Eliot. These occur regularly, and are usually well-attended. Then again, the same can be said for meals in House dining halls, and if these alone were sufficient to foster House community, the recent cut in blocking group size would not have been necessary...
Primarily through fostering these types of traditions, and not necessarily through tweaking blocking group size, can they save House community...