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...remember living in the houses when you couldn't come to dinner without a coat and tie," recalls Stanley N. Katz '55, now a professor at Princeton University and a master of one of the residential colleges. "One day a guy came into the dining hall wearing a jacket and tie and nothing else. I knew then that they weren't going to be able to keep that standard any more," he says...
...Princeton, Katz points to several factors leading to the adoption of the residential colleges including the increased number of students enrolled at the university, and the desire to be more competitive in attracting students...
...problem was obvious. Common areas designed for 500-700 students were being used by 2500--it was uncivilized and unmanageable. Students missed out on the benefits of undergraduate college life, including closer contact with faculty members," he says. Katz also points to the faculty's desire to create a more egalitarian atmosphere because Princeton students, after their sophomore year, join selective eating clubs. "We wanted all the students to have some kind of integrated experience," he says...
...support network of advisors. Unlike the Harvard Houses, Princeton's colleges house only freshmen and sophomores with a few upperclassmen advisers. While they borrowed the practice of assigning freshmen to a house from Yale, many of the other aspects of the Princeton system were modeled after Harvard, Katz says...
With still a few problems to iron out, such as the incorporation of upperclassmen, the Princeton system has been labelled a success. Citing increased acceptances of high students as evidence, Katz says, "This is the first year we've had equal splits with Yale in the number of students who decided to come. (The college system) has made us more competitive for the kind of students I want...