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There was almost unanimous agreement among the Masters at a meeting held by the visiting committee of the Board of Overseers to study the Tenth House early in the week that the same price should be charged for every room in the College after the Tenth House is built...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara last spring stood beside President Kennedy on the tenth-deck bridge of the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise. For as far as the eye could see, other U.S. ships deployed over the Atlantic seascape. Overhead screeched half a dozen different types of carrier-based planes. The U.S. Navy was conducting an exercise aimed at impressing its civilian bosses. The show impressed McNamara all right-but not in the way the Navy intended. He leaned over to Kennedy and asked: "What good are all these different kinds of planes...
There was some support, especially among Masters of the older Houses, for the Tenth House to be a low-rise building, but Richard T. Gill, Senior Tutor of Leverett, reportedly defended the high-rise concept of Leverett Towers...
...Overseers' committee spent the entire day at the College, interviewing students and House administrators and touring the existing House facilities. The final report, which committee chairman Albert L. Nickerson expects to present to the Corporation "sometime next fall," should be very influential in plans for the Tenth House...
...meeting with representatives of the student body yesterday afternoon, the Overseers again found considerable demand for individual bedrooms. Most students felt that the ideal size for the Tenth House would be about 350, and practically all agreed that the House should have its own private kitchen...