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While Gross did not know for certain whether freshmen or upperclassmen would live in Mass. Hall next year, he said that his “suspicion is that it will be upperclassmen, because we have accommodations for freshmen...
Signaling a possible change to what current undergraduates have come to see as a fixture of Harvard life, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 said that a handful of upperclassmen may join freshmen as residents of the Yard next year...
...interview on Friday, Gross restated that Mass. Hall’s incarnation as a freshman dorm is likely at an end. Instead, he said, the residential part of the 286-year-old building will probably be used for overflow and emergency housing for upperclassmen...
With the river houses left for upperclassmen, and all sophomores sharing the presupposed burden of Quad housing, class bonding could continue beyond the sacred freshman year, and students would even feel a greater sense of overall college community...
...hard to deny—aside from the intangible community benefits, sophomores would enjoy more focused advising, particularly now that concentration choice has been moved back a semester. Sophomore advising could be more dedicated to concentration-based inquiry and focus, without the pressure of the pre-professional focus their upperclassmen peers are driving towards. Advising staff could be specialized to deal with these types of issues, and to combat the sophomore slump, just as proctors are currently specifically assigned to freshmen...