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Council Requests Houses to Admit All '49, '50 Men

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Acting on reports that some upperclassmen may face additional deferment of admissions to Houses, the Student Council last night requested House-masters "that all members of the Classes of 1949 and 1950 be placed in Houses before members of the classes behind them."

Motion for the recommendation came from Edward F. Burke '50, who told the Council that "secretaries and masters in certain Houses didn't seem to be as definite in their policy as Associate Dean Watson was in his recent statement."

Burke said he "feared there might be a slipup on admission of some deserving students.

Watson had stated last Friday that most of the Class of 1950 men not in Houses would gain entrance when the selections are made next month.

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