Word: welles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the House Plan permitting occupants to choose either the college furniture of their own, the present unfortunate situation is avoided. In addition to this liberty the college furniture might well be varied and so managed that the students can choose the type they prefer. The realization of such a plan would allow each man to incorporate his own furniture with the preferable pieces provided by the College. Under this plan the House Plan atmosphere could be made more attractive due to the fact that it would be more personal and individual. This affords another means of averting the danger...
...recent experience at Emmanuel bears examining. Two years ago, it was decided to serve luncheon in hall, the undergraduates not being required to attend. The experiment has been a great success. Not only have the luncheons been well patronized, but the students, who are forever complaining about the food served at dinner, are loud in their praise of the quality of the luncheons. The food is, I think any impartial observer would agree, just as bad--or good--at luncheon as it is at dinner. But one meal is optional and the other is required: one is good...
That brings up an obvious point for consideration in connection with the House plan. If the meals at the Houses are good and well-served, if the surroundings are pleasant, if there is a real undergraduate objection to "eating around they will be well attended anyway, regardless of requirement. And if the meals are not all of these things, certainly no student should be required to eat them...
...questions published in another column of this issue of the CRIMSON give some indication of the various classes which the House Masters have considered important and is obviously well adapted to their purpose. The problem of working up the data will be a hard one, and even if an absolutely exact cross section of College were possible there are times when a departure from this ideal would seem advisable especially at first when there are but a few Houses, the masters will be particularly justified in taking more than a pro rata allowance from such groups as students from other...
...well-directed and intelligently acted talking picture is on view at the Metropolitan this week. It has a fairly sound plot and has several new ideas in the way of sound recording. There are no basic faults in "Evidence...