The Cross Section

....From his discourse with the newspapermen, it became evident that President Lowell had harbored the inner-college idea for years, that just prior to the Harkness gift Harvard was scraping enough money together to start one such institution as an experiment. Further information, heretofore unrevealed, was that President Lowell considered the social value of the new system as important as its educational advantage. With the new House Plan must come the dissolution of the very definite groups of like-minded young men who have traditionally inhabited Harvard's "Gold Coast" (Mt. Auburn Street). The House Plan, according to its prime mover, was calculated to eliminate cabals brought together by "wealth and origin.".... In spite of the fact that it is contrary to the spirit of the new system, Juniors Barry Wood and Charles Cunningham, room-mates, footballers, hockeyists, demanded that they be allowed to move into Lowell House with 25 of their cronies, a two-year-old clique. This the authorities reluctantly permitted. Time.

(Ed. Note: "Time" in the 3rd paragraph refers to the wrong house. It should read "Dunster.")