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...companies complained to Dean von Stade and Dean Munro, saying Stillman had obtained the information through misrepresentation. On March 8, Von Stade directed Stillman to write a letter of explanation to the Administrative Board...
...Stade observed the irony of the whole affair: "Right now we're in the middle of admissions for 1969. We have 6500 people of whom 6000 are absolutely qualified. We'll sift through the applications and try to pick the 1200 most promising and exciting people. And yet, a year hence, the Masters will took at some of these fellows and say 'What an uninteresting and dull group...
Underlying Von Stade's call for change is his assumption that choosing a House is a relatively unimportant decision. "The Houses just aren't that different... You can't really tell what Harvard College is going to be like as a high school senior." And regardless of what House a freshman is placed in, "nobody's unhappy by the middle of his sophomore year," he says...
...former acting Master of Kirkland House, Von Stade sympathizes with the "amount of sweat that the Masters go through." And indications are that the nine men who shape the House are beginning to feel a bit soggy. Although the Masters last year rejected a proposal to overhaul the present system, the vote was reportedly very close...
Still, Von Stade objects to any really radical change, and rejects Yale's current system. There all freshmen are affiliated with one of the upperclass colleges (New Haven's counterpart of the House). "The logical extension of the Yale system is that freshman would eventually live in the Colleges," he says...