Word: winthrops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...changed. After years of offering its students only the disadvantages of co-education, Harvard has begun to coat the bitter pill of Cliffe median-raisers. Cliffe monopolizers-of-Widener, Cliffe knitters-in-Emerson D. First joint tutorial, then combined organizations and activities, and now the eagerly anticipated announcement that Winthrop House and Comstock Hall have merged. Let's ring the bells and start the celebration...
...early stages, the new arrangement will be academically-oriented only, but David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House, expected "other opportunities" to develop. He cited informal dramatic and music groups as possible areas of cooperation between Winthrop and Comstock students...
Joint tutorial groups will be established in the Fall, and as many Comstock students as possible will be assigned to Winthrop tutors. Girls will be eligible to join House societies, such as the Social Relations Club, the Science Society, the Economics Table, or the Senior Thesis Seminar...
...idea for the joint arrangement came from Winthrop House tutors, who praised the mixed tutorial groups established this Fall. Owen pointed out that the Winthrop-Comstock combination was a "natural one," since Winthrop tutor Donald R. Brown serves, with his wife, as Head Resident of Comstock...
Owen emphasized the experimental nature of the program. "It will be an academic arrangement, not a social one," he stated. "And there will be no extension of parietal hours in Winthrop for Comstock girls...