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With his moralist, individualist approach, upperclass lifestyle and unshakeable belief in the democratic and civil libertarian ideals Thomas, never a Marxist ideologue, was at best a bourgeois socialist. Indeed, in his later years, disturbed by the systematic suppression of dissent in Stalinist Russia, he felt his socialist faith slipping...
...representatives of the Lowell House Committee, would like to express our dismay with the present non-rotational system of assigning freshmen to upperclass dining halls on the weekends...
...real issue, however, is the effect of this new policy on the freshman class. We feel that freshmen receive the most valid perspective on University life by being exposed to as many upperclass houses as possible, and that this exposure is best availed by rotating assignments for weekend meals. All of us were freshmen under this previous policy, and feel that it was an invaluable aid for choosing housing in the spring and for learning more about University life in general...
...best arrangement "if financial considerations permit." But there is a plan which, at no expense, preserves and extends four-class Houses. Proposed independently by the Quad Committee and RUS, it affiliates all freshmen with Houses, and assigns Yard space to each House to use either for freshman or upperclass housing, as it desires. (This is only the barest sketch; details can be found in the QC and RUS reports.) But CHUL has, despite the energetic efforts of a few members (not only the Quad ones), so far ignored this plan, CHUL should reconsider. Alan Sokal '76 North House
Unlike the two preceeding proposals, this plan would substantially change the character of housing at Harvard. All freshmen would be placed at the Quad, and the Yard, that bastion of Harvard tradition, would be converted into three upperclass Houses. This option solves the problem of unpopularity of the Quad and allows the College to increase enrollment by about 200 through freshman crowding. However, it could, the report cautions, isolate the freshmen in a "ghetto...