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...Interclass contact is further reduced by the changes in weekend dining brought on by the bitching of last year's freshmen. Once upon a time freshmen ate at all the Houses in the course of a year. Then they ate at three only, but for longer periods of time at each. Now freshmen don't ever have to leave the comfort of the Union. When they do, they go in convoys with a proctor riding shotgun. To pay for keeping the Union open weekends, all but four Houses have abandoned hot breakfasts. Greatly upset at the prospect of going...
...DECREASING interclass contact is an unhealthy development. First-hand observation of freshmen becomes impossible, so upperclassmen base their views of freshmen on stereotype and rumor. Are freshmen competitive, grade-hungry overachievers, or are they idyllic, innocent waifs who are "testing their wings"? No one can say for sure...
With the introduction of the House system for upperclassmen in 1930-31, the freshman intramural system became a separate entity for the first time. Up until then, freshmen dorms had been competing against dorms for other classes as well. Indeed, interclass rivalry had been even more important than inter-house rivalry...
Next year, with all seven Houses in operation, intramural athletics will be held on a more formal basis, displacing the former interclass teams in the several sports. Members of the different House Committees will gather some time this week to discuss intramural sports and schedules, and make plans for next fall. Final arrangements will probably be made under the arrangement of A. W. Samborski '26, director of Intramural Athletics...
...while the fraternities are not as powerful as elsewhere, they have shown that they bring out more men than teams of the three upper classes." This is shown by the fact that about 150 men report for inter-fraternity basketball, in comparison with an average of 50 reporting for interclass basketball. On the other hand, the athletic competition has also developed the club spirit within the fraternities at Harvard, according to Samborski, and it would probably have the same effect on the Houses...