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...would make all Houses uniform and therefor more effective. This year, the Student Council is considering a plan which attempts to end inequities in distributing freshmen. According to the Council's suggestion, freshmen could only indicate the small group of fellow freshmen with whom they wish to spend their upperclass years. The Houses would then pick their members, insuring diversity in all fields...
...only are the disadvantages of the present House preference system exaggerated, but there are certain positive benefits in it. Freshmen often decide on a House because of the upperclass friends they have there. In an assignment system, there would be little chance of their being accepted at this same House. Then, too, since freshmen have a choice, competition has developed which is often valuable to the Houses. Forums are planned, trophies sought, and improvements instituted with special thought to their effect in interesting freshmen...
Monks plans to poll freshmen immediately after House assignments have been made this May to obtain fresh criticism and opinion. Another poll is planned for the incoming Class of '57 next fall to see if they would object to being assigned to upperclass Houses--not singly, but with chosen roommates--and if their prejudices and preferences are innate or developed once here...
Eliot dominated the upperclass tournament with six men in the finals. The Elephants Bill Shoeberlein and Sid Tyler faced each other in the 147 pound class, and Noel Scullion and Pete Saurian met in the 177 pound competition. Frank Lombardi at 137 pounds, and Whitey Black, in the unlimited division, both pinned their men, to make it a perfect evening for the Elephants...
...University is going to give seven remissions of tuition to German exchange students for the academic year '53-'54 on the basis of their standings in '52-'53. Each of the students who gets a remission of tuition will live in one of the seven upperclass Houses...