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...walls of my room in Pennypacker 42. Next door, the proctors negate the L. Trevor principle of Harvardian dignity. After the dull roar or the incipient party became audible, my next door neighbor kindly said, "Hope you can stand another hour of this." Two hours later, after the whole dorm has spent a great deal of time in semi-riot, the proctorian rumble continues, and I have given up hope of finishing my Friday math assignment and getting the hum paper done. My gripe is that, first, it is unfair to conduct such a bolsterous affair on a Thursday night...
...search for qualified students from the greater Boston area. Applications from local high schools have even fallen off slightly. Lack of interest in attracting local studen can in part be traced to the Administration's apparent opinion that commuters are "second-class citizens," deprived of the educational benefits of dorm life. Certainly this was true when President Pusey took office in 1953. A study made by the Office of Tests reveals that '52 commuters felt a real isolation from the resident students, referred to by some as "those Ivy Leaguers." The traditional view has been that commuters miss...
What is needed is a set of controls, such as an equal number of Freshman letter winners, geniuses, and preppies in every House. But beyond this, the extension of arbitrariness would destroy existing house solidarity and increase the sense that the House was merely a dorm to which the student owned no allegiance or personal commitment...
...student (sex undeterminable by typewriter printing) remarked, "Spring is here, and the Radcliffe Dorm Presidents are on the prowl with flashlight and memo pad. . . . I think this should be brought to the attention of all Harvard men so that they know the full story when their true love refuses their fondest wish...
Among the other residents of Weld, an 89-year-old dorm that has become the symbol in the Yard of housing deterioration, reaction was mixed. Said one: "the Administration ought to be a little more concerned about this. If they were living underneath our ceilings, maybe they would be. All we can do now is hope Trottenberg's office gets it next." Arthur D. Trottenberg, Assistant Dean for Operating Services, is in charge of buildings and grounds. His office is Weld 8, Donahue lives in Room...