Word: winthrops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps one typical Harvard type is missing: the "arty" group. Winthrop has its share of bright and serious students, but it has somehow failed to attract men of HDC and Advocate bent. If it has failed, it is not the fault of Housemaster Ronald M. Ferry or his able, energetic Senior Tutor, Daniel S. Cheever. For Ferry has attempted to adhere closely to the original concept of the House system...
Perhaps as a consequence, last year Winthrop was the most popular first choice among the Class...
...character of a House is an elusive thing at best, but perhaps the dining hall atmosphere can define it. The Winthrop dining hall is decidedly informal, relaxed, and above all, noisy. A low ceiling and large square columns down one side box in and concentrate dinner table conversations. As a result, an atmosphere of stuffiness and formality can hardly survive...
Most of the tables in the dining hall are four-seaters. After a meal has been served for a half hour, however, you would never know it. Winthrop men have come and gone, pulling chairs from here and there, gathering in larger and larger groups. This informality extends to relation with tutors, for it is a race day indeed when two or more tutors are seen eating together...
Among the residents here is a quit interest in the House activities. Winthrop always has good, but seldom outstanding, athletic teams; it puts on a traditional musical comedy in the spring: and it stages several dances, including a number of mixers with local girls' colleges during the course of the year...