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...search of a Harvard education. In recent years, College officials talked eloquently about the obligation to expand. Stopping their ears to anguished complaints from the undergraduates, they converted singles into doubles with the purchase of several double-decker "bunk beds." Overcrowding reached its peak a year ago, with one dorm housing more than double the number of students it had been designed...
...results within a year. One month ago the President announced that Radcliffe will begin a sweeping revision of its housing system next Fall, reorganizing the dormitory Quadrangle into four living units similar to the Harvard Houses. Although physical changes will be deferred till the year after next, a new dorm will be built in the near future. In the meantime, the present halls will be grouped into three units Comstock, Moors, and Holmes Halls will combine to form North House; Briggs, Barnard, and Bertram, South House; and Cabot, Whitman, Eliot, and the new co-operatives, East House. The off-campus...
Combining dorms into three or four Houses--each containing about 275 students and 25 Faculty affiliates--will end what in the past has been a serious objection to the dormitories: that they are too small to allow people to avoid each other. Group pressures that seem smotheringly oppressive in a dorm are less noticeable in larger units, and students in the Houses will have room to be more selective about their acquaintances...
...Cliffies frequently and justly complain that the dorm system provides few opportunities for sustained informal contact with faculty members. What little association there is between the faculty and Radcliffe girls under the present system--teas, special dinners, sherries--is inevitably stilted and artificial. And while the funereal atmosphere of these semi-official gatherings lend itself to mockery, the lack of contact with older minds remains one of the most serious defects in a Radcliffe education. The new Houses are to have a ratio of resident and affiliate associates roughly equivalent to that of the Harvard House...
Next year, Comotock, Moors, and Holmes Hall will combine to form North House; Briggs, Barnard, and Bertram, South House; and Cabot, Whitman, Eliot, and the new co-operatives, East House. The off-campus houses, eventually to be replaced by the new dorm, probably will form West House...