Word: winthrops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Masters decided at a recent meeting that "the pre-war system of providing some rooms in the Houses for graduate students is a good one," according to David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House. When the Leverett Towers open in September, 1960, the Houses will have "at least 150 new places, perhaps more," Owen said...
...meeting, the HYDC also passed constitutional amendments creating positions for two additional members-at-large of the club's Executive Committee. Robert C. Carr '62, of Thayer Hall and Hanover, N.H., and Kent A. Higgens '61, of Winthrop House and Bismarck, N.D., were elected to these offices...
...Winthrop House will have as Ford visitors during the coming week two New York artists. Frank Mason, a member of the faculty of the Art Students League, and Mrs. Mason are spending three days as artists in residence at the House. It is expected that, in addition to being available for conferences with interested undergraduates, they will put in some time in sketching various House activities...
...order to "make more effective use of talent and facilities," Quincy House and Holmes Hall will experiment "with an informal affiliation" beginning this Fall. But, unlike the recently announced association for joint tutorials between Winthrop House and Comstock Hall, Quincy and Holmes are affiliating to "provide a natural and easily available source of talent for student activities...
...addition, some Houses use the funds for more unusual purposes. Dudley sends a commuting student abroad each summer, Kirkland once engaged the Billy Taylor jazz trio, Winthrop offers grants for special thesis projects, and Adams sponsors exhibitions of student collections ("everything from coins to ikons to rare books...