Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, said that the plan would not cause much inconvenience. "Students will have to take that horrible walk to Kresge," he said, "but now that everyone is doing 50-mile hikes, this will fit right into the picture...
...neighboring city of Holyoke is not much more lively. Public transportation is notoriously insufficient, and any boy who goes to Mount Holyoke for a date without a car may well find himself stranded in South Hadley for a week end with little to do but take a long walk in the woods. Even communication tends to isolate Mount Holyoke; one girl ruefully noted that Amherset boys frequently prefer Smith girls because "it costs ten cents to call Northampton, but Holyoke is a forty-cent long distance call...
...side of life at Mount Holyoke. One girl, describing a geology professor, illustrated this close faculty student contact: "I hardly know him; I've never taken a geology course in my life and I don't plan to; yet he's the type of person that I could just walk into his office and say 'I have a problem' and he'd do whatever he could...
...most attractive aspects of the college is, simply, that it is a friendly place. As one Harvard undergraduate succinctly observed, "When you walk into a dorm at Smith, you feel as though the walls are made of icebergs; when you walk into a dorm at Holyoke, everyone is warm and friendly." This congeniality is felt just as keenly by the girls themselves as by visitors; and for freshmen, the informal, friendly atmosphere considerably eases the transition from secondary school to college...
...completed projects of the Authority very few people needed to be displaced or relocated; thus, the projects were essentially large business transactions. When the CRA moved into Donnelly, however, threatened to affect 337 families by levelling 93 privately owned buildings (most two and three story walk-ups). The CRA failed to realize that the approach used with the previous two projects was not going to work...