Word: winthrops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent months there has been so much discussion of physical growth at Harvard that the scholastic implications of expansion have been all but forgotten. The one notable exception, Master Ferry of Winthrop House, has recognized that the present intellectual system requires much improvement regardless of whether or not Harvard expands...
Master Ferry proposed to shift "at least some" of the College's intellectual life into the Houses, starting in Winthrop with an Economics 1 section this term and planning sections in other courses next year. The intrahouse sections, Ferry believes, will place students and faculty on a more intimate and informal footing. The arrangement should also encourage students to discuss course material informally, outside the classroom. The result should be a House with a more friendly and interesting atmosphere...
...Winthrop House has taken a long stride in this direction, foreseeing the not too distant day when all sections will meet in the Houses--sections in Gen Ed, government, economics, English and languages. Master Ferry is hastening that day when students will talk to professors and when undergraduates will discuss their courses around the dinner table...
...Winthrop shut out Lowell, 34 to 0, while Eliot downed Dunster, 21 to 7, in their first Interhouse touch football league games on Thursday...
...Other Winthrop touchdowns were scored by Owen Todd and Ed Fogarty in the first quarter, London in the second, and Fogarty again in the fourth. John Baldwin made two conversions, while King, Holmes and Fogarty each made one. The undermanned Lowell squad was unable to make any headway throughout the game...