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REARRANGEMENT OF ROOMS IN HOLLIS AND STOUGHTON.

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For years past and with the violent protests of the undergraduates un-heeded, the Corporation has continued to authorize the Bursar to give preference in the allotment of rooms in Hollis and Stoughton to double applications for single rooms. Using a single room for living and sleeping is distinctly unpleasant and not infrequently unhealthy. Granted that there were room for two beds, desks, bureaus, book-cases, tables, and the like, in these rooms, which there is not, it is still asking too much to expect one tired man to lie awake while his room-mate pounds his typewriter or entertains his friends. But at last, thanks to the initiative of the 1911 Senior dormitory committee, and the freedom of action which it has been allowed by President Lowell, these conditions may be consigned to the past. The rooms in Hollis and Stoughton are now to be allotted in pairs forming one double suite. By this means, two men will live in one room and sleep in another. These conditions would be more ideal if the sleeping rooms were divided in two by partitions, but the arrangement as it now stands is such an improvement, that we wish to congratulate the committee upon its work.

The only objections to this new arrangement are that it cuts down somewhat the number accommodated by these buildings, and that for those who apply for a double suite for two the cost will be exactly double what it would be with two men to each room. Neither of these objections, however, is as serious as it seems, for, as a general thing, at least one-third of the rooms in Hollis and Stoughton are occupied by one man only, so that the number accommodated will by no means be cut in half; and as to the expense, men need not apply for two rooms as a double suite unless they so desire. This long-sought privilege will enable men to live with greatly increased comfort, and should prove a tremendous boon to the whole Senior dormitory system.

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