Spaulding, Westergaard Back Graduate Housing Unit Plan

Strong approval of a proposed Graduate Housing unit was expressed yesterday by Francis T. Spaulding, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, and Harald M. Westerguard, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil Engineering and Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering.

Both men feel that such a plan would be of great value to the graduate student not only from a monetary but also from an educational standpoint. They agree that separate units for each of the graduate schools would be of little significance, but that it is in the concentration of all the students in one housing unit that the real worth of the plan may be found.

Undergraduate Housing

"In deciding whether or not to combine the graduate schools into one housing unit," Dean Westergaard observed, "the planners will be confronted with the same problem that faced the Masters of the undergraduate Houses.

"It was finally decided not to segregate the fields of concentration, and it has worked out very well. I hope the planners of the unit reach a similar decision, for the full value can be gotten from the scheme only if all the graduate students live together, thus permitting an exchange of ideas."

Extra-Curricular Education

Dean Spaulding stated, "placing the members of all the graduate schools in one housing unit would provide every student with an opportunity for an extra-curricular education. This education would be informal, and in a way incidental, but no less valuable on that account. Perhaps it might be even more valuable than learning received through the regular channels."

The resulting interplay of ideas would be excellent for students in the Graduate School of Education, planning on teaching as a career, in the opinion of Dean Spaulding. He believes this would prove especially true for those people going into secondary school work where they will meet students with many outside interests.