Word: whitla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whitla's Idea...
Stewart said he was pleased by the change, "first because Whitla's suggestion removes an annoyance to undergraduates and tutors in the Houses, and second because it makes it possible to treat tampering with the system as a clearly anti-social act without the excuse which it seemed to have before...
Stewart credits Dean K. Whitla, acting Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Lowell House, with the idea of using ohmmeters for silent testing. The suggestion came after Arthur D. Trottenberg, Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, complained last December to Stewart about residents of Lowell who, bothered by the noise during testing periods, had disconnected the fire alarms in their rooms...
After talking with the students involved, Whitla suggested the plan for the ohmmeters, which the Department of Buildings and Grounds has adopted. According to Stewart, Houses may activate the alarm system at the beginning of each year to show what the horns sound like...
...answers. First, each man on the admissions committee feels in his own mind that a "good mix" is a necessary thing for Harvard College. If the admissions committee has just okayed nine consecutive students from a small town in Oregon, it will become wary of admitting more. Perhaps, as Whitla suggests, the advocate himself will not be able to find it in him to argue a tenth case enthusiastically. More important, there is something of a quota built into the admissions process. This is the docket system. Applicants are divided into 22 dockets, according to the secondary school the student...