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...could any parts of Yale's College assignment system be profitably instituted at Harvard? The most provocative suggestion is to discontinue asking freshmen to make choices for where they want to live. Unfortunately, the arguments on this issue are numerous and cloudy. For example, those who like the status quo claim that letting the student make a choice tends to build up his feeling for his House. This point seems particularly valid when one recalls that although only 60 to 65 per cent of the freshmen House, almost 90 per cent get into one of their top three choices. Indeed...
...pointed out in a forty-page study of the Houses, even if no stereotypes existed, freshmen would probably create them in order to justify a choice for which they have no other justification. Stereotypes that lack meaning and reality can't hurt anyone, claim the defenders of the status quo, but the opposition usually asks if Harvard education should encourage students to act on such illusions...
...could any parts of Yale's College assignment system be profitably instituted at Harvard? The most provocative suggestion is to discontinue asking freshmen to make choices for where they want to live. Unfortunately, the arguments on this issue are numerous and cloudy. For example, those who like the status quo claim that letting the student make a choice tends to build up his feeling for his House. This point seems particularly valid when one recalls that although only 60 to 65 per cent of the freshmen House, almost 90 per cent get into one of their top three choices. Indeed...
...pointed out in a forty-page study of the Houses, even if no stereotypes existed, freshmen would probably create them in order to justify a choice for which they have no other justification. Stereotypes that lack meaning and reality can't hurt anyone, claim the defenders of the status quo, but the opposition usually asks if Harvard education should encourage students to act on such illusions...
...opposition of the new program and asking for a change in Williams' housing "from within the fraternity system." It maintained that it would be foolish to place fraternities under the complete control of the college when better academic standards and student-faculty relations could be achieved with the status quo...