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...quirky duo met as freshmen in Holworthy Hall, where future Lampoon member, “Simpsons” writer, and late-night host Conan O’Brien ’85 would live four years later...
...Last spring, two-thirds of the Freshman Class in a poll again claimed that they were unable to study in their rooms after 10 p.m.,” the editorial reads. “Because the afternoons and early evenings of many freshmen are taken by jobs, physical training, and extracurricular activities, the need for better study conditions is acutely obvious...
...College prepared to extend Lamont’s hours. At the time, federal wage and hour laws prevented women from working late nights, and only three of Lamont’s 22 staff members were men. While the Freshman Union Committee offered to staff the library with volunteer freshmen after 10 p.m., Buck chose to simply use a reduced staff during the extended hours, saying at the time, “it isn’t fair to depend on anyone whom you don’t compensate...
9/19: 1,125 freshmen register at the College, 296 register for Radcliffe. Harvard decides to institute a $10 application fee to decrease the number of applications.9/26: Richard L. Dodds ’55 resigns as student council president. Albert B. Levin ’56 unanimously elected.9/29: Prescott Street apartments will house 200 college students. Overseers report calls College expansion “unavoidable,” need for larger faculty, three more houses.10/2: Holly Carleton is chosen as Miss Radcliffe ’59. WHRB, the undergraduate radio station, wins approval of football broadcasts a day later.10/5: School...
...next decade. The University was then making do with seven Houses for its total undergraduate enrollment, which hovered around 4430 in the mid-fifties. For the first time since the founding of the House system in 1928, the College saw the return of seniors to the Yard and freshmen to outside the Yard’s gates, as overflow housing sent upperclassmen to Wigglesworth and first-years to newly-purchased apartments on Prescott St. in the fall of 1956. The space crunch that afflicted the University also forced the Admissions Office to cut the Class of 1960, admitted...