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...stereotypes may have persisted, but student attitudes toward the Houses, and the involvement of associates and Faculty, shifted as the 1950s wore on. Dean K. Whitla, co-author of the 1974 "Perspective on the Houses of Harvard and Radcliffe" and head tutor of Lowell House during part of this time, said last week in his top-floor University Hall office, as the chants of an anti-Gallo demonstration filtered in through the open window, "In the heady days of this place, there was a tendency among students to reject people who dropped in for a meal and the like...
Most Harvard administrators interviewed last week said women in the Harvard Houses altered the atmosphere of House life more than any other factor. Whitla said women living in the Houses "got rid of the hated parietal rules, which had been a burr under the saddle of so many people. And it improved the tone of the House and dining hall." Finley agrees: "The introduction of girls was a very monumental step in an intellectual direction. Conversation is politer because girls are not so bullish...
...Robert] Turvene's page on grant news and opportunities will be a help, as may my determination to include stories of "gut" interests to the reader. These stories will include pieces such as these: the probable/possible effects of inflation and near-panic on TIAA and CREF‡ [Dean K.] Whitla's examination of the Houses plus his views on evaluations of faculty by students at Minnesota, in our Business School and (possibly) elsewhere at Harvard; disbursements from your opportunity fund, etc. Also, there is value in stories that in themselves are narrowly based but, through the device of the taped...
...compacting routine business and by continued development of a program involving guest speakers and discussion leaders in significant matters of broad interest. You should consider bringing in outsiders or fringe players such as Bundy and O'Hara (chairman of our House Education subcommittee) as well as others in the Whitla catagory [sic]. Upgrading and use of speakers should be extended to other gatherings and every meeting you attend should be checked for outreach possibilities...
...center will participate with neighboring institutions. Whitla said, "MIT is one we'd particularly hope to work with, as well as Tufts...