Word: unite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much of this spirit is due, certainly, to the factors which made the Smith Halls a notable spiritual unit among Freshmen, that is, to the compactness of the quadrangle, to the small number of inhabitants, and to the isolated position. But perhaps more significant is the term "social desert" which has clung to this seventh unit. Kirkland, to be sure, possesses a share of social climbers and lights; but unlike any other House, it possesses a stable bulk of population, a comfortable companionable middle class, which, quite without effort, finds itself a solid unit...
There are some distinct advantages to the physical side of Kirkland House. It is the smallest of the House units with 207 members. For this reason it more closely approaches the ideal size than any of the other Houses. The residents of a small unit tend to be more congenial toward one another and have the advantage of closer contact with the tutors and the House Master...
Lost in the maze of buildings which lie between the historic Yard and the tortuous Charles, its gold tower dwarfed by the belling pinnacle of Lowell House, is Adams House, unit of the House Plan which combines the relies of the Gold Coast age with the latest products of the fertile minds of those masters, Messrs. Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch & Abbott, to form an architectural jumble, but at the same time a bizarre and altogether pleasing entirety. For though Westmorly and Randolph are separated by an intervening unit containing the Dining Hall, Common Rooms, Library, and C entry, the whole...
...approval and cooperation by the Master, whose policy of helpful suggestion has made him a popular and indispensable part of the House life. Indeed, it is largely through Professor Baxter's efforts that the House has been transformed from a heterogeneous collection of individuals into an efficient, smooth-running unit...
Adams House is a unit, a scattered and individualistic mass, but a unit nevertheless. And it is the hope of those men at its head that some day it will develop into a spiritual unit as well. Realizing, however, that this development can only come with time, they are pursuing a policy of cooperative encouragement, not forceful imposition