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According to the Lowell plan to break the College into manageable units, each House plans its own social events, and House Committees have played an active role in this enterprise from the start. Consisting of a social committee, officer and the House's student council representative, the early House Committees...
"It takes money to make a house a home," said a 1933 student council report. "House dues--like the Army's company fund--are a fair levy."
By the 1950s, the House Committees had grown to the large-scale operations they are today. The typical committee made twice as much on dues as it did on concessions in 1959 and spent between $2000 and $4000 each year.
It is even more difficult to conceive of all the ways--and Tygiel recounts many--in which baseball desegregation helped directly speed national efforts. Just consider the effect of teams bringing Blacks down to spring training. For Robinson's Dodgers, according to Tygiel, the tours through the South "challenged deeply...
Cunningham, says Sloan, had a history of appropriating the ideas of others as her own. This had resulted in her being shunned by her first study group at Harvard. "By the end of the first year," writes Sloan, "people who had come to know her would no longer speak to...