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...explained in an article in the Sept. 17 issue of the journal Science, the human body contains numerous proteins which limit blood vessel growth under normal conditions such as menstruation and wound healing...
According to Lewis, an eight-person limit would "ensure that students from one block will get to know other students in the House." Other House Masters have echoed this thought, saying large blocking groups make it hard to "integrate people into the House as a whole...
There is also good reason to think that eight is a bad size for a blocking group. There are suites of more than eight people in many houses. Some students do in fact have close friendship groups of more than eight people, and the lower limit would make the blocking process even more difficult for first-years. Such a low limit also makes it more difficult for mixed-gender blocking groups, which must already divide up into rooming groups...
...Maybe I was foolish, but I had an idea that Harvard would be a place where there would be no closed doors for me...no limit to what I could do," Thorpe says...
Lewis' decision, scheduled to take effect with the Class of 2003, will significantly limit the number of first-year students who may "block" together and enter the College's housing lottery as a single group...