Word: winthrops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scholastically, Winthrop has improved to the point where its nickname is now anachronistic. Last year, two of its members received Rhodes Scholarships, and this year three of its seniors are Phi Betes. Coincidentally, at the end of last term Winthrop House had fewer members on unsatisfactory standing than any of the other houses...
Despite its current appellation as the "Jock" House, Winthrop remains one of the most versatile yet homogeneous houses at Harvard...
...Winthrop's members almost without exception enjoy their House. Whether because ninety per cent of its members chose Winthrop as their first preference, or because the hot-bed fervor so prominent in some other houses is never consciously promoted in Winthrop, dissatisfaction is virtually unknown...
Master Ronald M. Ferry '12 is proud of the policy of spontaneous generation which has characterized the House ever since its inception in 1931. And precisely because Winthrop has been built from the roots rather than from imposition and incitement from above, its members feel a belonging which they themselves have participated in creating...
...Winthrop's tutorial staff, headed by Allston Burr Senior Tutor Albert A. Mavrinac, is gradually becoming a more integral force in House activities, helping to found science, choral, language, and economics groups. Each Wednesday evening the resident tutors, together with any House members who choose to come, gather in the Senior Common Room to chat and sip sherry...