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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Live-music dances are held in the College dining halls only once a term, since the demand is mostly satisfied by the fraternities. The nine fraternities, all relics of pre-1940 Yale line a curved "fraternity row" near the Colleges. During the week, the fraternity houses are used in desultory fashion by members who drops in for a quick beer. On weekends they open their doors to the whole student body and throw punches, dances, drinking parties, and jazz concerts. During better football weekends they are usually jammed. Some, like the Fence Club, try to avoid too uncontrolled a stampede...
Four major revisions have been made. Now, for the first time, councils will serve from February to February instead of from September to June. Because of this sensible change the group will no longer be hindered by the presence of last-term seniors who are far too busy on theses and General Examinations to fulfill their duties as council members. Outgoing councils, under the new system, will still be in college to help orientate their successors...
Another revision, although less conspicuous than the others, may well prove to be the most significant. Future councils are obligated to appoint from four to six men each year to work solely on long-term advisory projects. In the past the group could (but did not have to) appoint three extra members, and usually failed to do so. The new appointive members can restore the importance of the council by making investigations in the tradition of the 1949 Poskanzer Report...
Maid service at Harvard is an institution as old as the University itself. Through the years the cleaning women with the whimsical brooms have been called "sweeps," "goodies," and more recently "biddies." The latest term of affection is just plain "maids"--those who value their cleaning service dare use no other term, for the value of labor-management relations is learned in the college suite...
Those who lived in the boarding houses fared as they could; those who lived in the Yard had the benefit of University maid service seven days a week, chargeable to the term bill; and those who lived on the Gold Coast of Mount Auburn Street received a service proportional to what they wished...