Dorm, Innovations

WITH the start of the new year the College put into effect the three dormitory experiments recommended by the Commission on Campus Life and Its Regulation. These efforts to improve dormitory life consist of a resident adviser in Cutter Hall; the appointment of three non-resident faculty advisers for South Massachusetts Hall, where a lounge has been created on the main floor; and the transformation of the Butterfield Hall social room into a dormitory study hall. The Commission will closely watch all three experiments to see whether they should be extended to other dormitories.

Joseph F. Marsh Jr., bachelor instructor in Great Issues, has been named resident adviser for Cutter Hall. He has an apartment on the first floor of the dormitory and has been relieved of some of his teaching load in order to have time for academic and social counseling among the 44 students rooming in Cutter. The three non-resident advisers for South Mass are Roy P. Forster, Professor of Zoology; Louis Menand, Assistant Professor of Government; and Henry L. Terrie Jr., Instructor in English. They will work on a weekly rotation plan, meeting informally with dorm residents in the lounge and serving "as a generating force for educational and social ideas and as a source of counsel and guidance."

As another dormitory innovation, Cutter Hall will have the use of the "gentleman's library" assembled by the late Herbert F. Schuchmann '14 of Jamaica Plain, Mass. The collection will be installed in the large and attractively furnished lounge, where Cutter residents will have access to many fine books of a general rather than an academic character. To this personal library left by Mr. Schuchmann the Baker Library is adding some duplicate volumes from the College's general collection.