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...proposal that has drawn the most attention calls for the housing of freshmen in the Quad, sophomores in the Yard and upperclassmen in the River Houses. Two weeks ago, an Overseers' Visiting Committee responded favorably to a discussion of the educational potential of this alternative by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation. The committee decided to bring the proposal up at the next Overseers meeting...
...Dean K. Whitla, associate director of admissions, codes this information computer use and spins out a computerized "docket" listing each candidate's name, his ranking from readers and school officials, test scores, race and alumni connections. When each case is considered in committee, only the official presenting it will have the file, but every one has the docket in front of him, supplying him with hard numerical information about the applicant...
...cover several states, others include only a few private schools like Andover and Exeter. Basing their decision on the quality and number of the applications from each area, and upon the action they have taken in the past there, top admissions officers at Harvard and Radcliffe get together with Whitla to set a target number of admits from each region. Though Reardon declined to release the targets because of the disputes they might cause with alumni, and only allowed a quick look at this year's figures, they reveal that while admissions from the Boston and Cambridge areas have remained...
...most simplistic level, it is difficult to comprehend how such segregation will promote increased integration of freshmen for sophomores) into the University as a whole, a goal articulated repeatedly by such persons as Dean K. Whitla. On the contrary, I feel that such a plan would only exacerbate the problems which already exist in the all-freshman Yard as presently constituted...
...Gilbert, "the present house system integrates sophomores in the only meaningful sense; it places them in full social contact with students of other classes." The "special efforts which Dean Pipkin envisions as necessary if all sophomores were to live in the Yard are not now required. The Whitla-Pinck report, Perspectives on the Houses at Harvard and Radcliffe, states, "No student ought to live in a House merely for the sake of bed and board and to study and enjoy his university life elsewhere." This has been the chief virtue of the House system since its inception...