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...closeness of the group does not prevent privacy, since, according to Stephen Cushman, "you can be alone all you want." Although the walls are thin, the dorm is quiet, and "when there's noise, everyone makes it," Cushman said. Some of the 17 study in Lamont, but most study in the dorm, where it is "quieter than in the Yard," James R. Murphy claims...
Despite these inadequacies, the Yardlings like the "family" atmosphere of the dorm, one resident, George Hegeman, reported. Hegeman also praised "the feeling of belonging" which 8 Prescott provides, while Michael Gilman admired the fact that "they's thrown a great bunch of guys together...
Holmes Hall has no such resident. The name, however, was registered in the dorm's weekend guest book, but without the signature of her student hostess...
...apparently a joke," commented dorm president Sally Baker...
Dissimilar as they may be in some respects, the University Houses and the Annex dorms both face the same need for expansion. In 1930, when five of the present eight dorms were standing, the Radcliffe Yearbook reported: "There is room for every single girl, be she freshman or senior, New Yorker or Cambridgeite. There is no such thing as living in an 'outside house' and running over to a dorm for meals...