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The plan, a compromise forwarded last fall by masters split over the merits of diversity or house autonomy, would have reserved 25 percent of the space available in participating houses for random assignment. Eight masters decided to join the experiment.
"Some masters who originally felt that the experiment was adequate changed their minds," Jewett said. Jewett said he reversed his decision on Monday, after at least two house masters withdrew their support.
Yesterday, Dunster and Mather house masters said they abandoned the experiment in part because of strong student opposition to the change.
The masters of the four houses who originally declined to join the experiment--Adams, Eliot, Lowell and Winthrop--could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Leverett House Master John E. Dowling '57, a strong advocate of the experiment, said he was disappointed that plans to increase random assignment will be delayed for a year.