Radcliffe Makes Space For Increased Numbers

What do you do when you have more people than places?

That's the problem of Mrs. Thomas C. Moser, Radcliffe Dean of Residence. Her duty is to make sure that everyone has a bed, and when there aren't enough, then she has to find them.

Dean Moser this year finds to her dismay that for the 780 spaces, there are more than 780 girls reurning. The surplus is not the result of miscalculation, because there can be no calculating the Radcliffe girls. Dean Moser points out that the college expects a few students to withdraw every summer, and thereby permit others to take up the space.

But this is a guess, not a calculation. And this year, it was the wrong guess, for the time being at least.

Economy Triples

So Dean Moser had to improvise. In three dorms, Cabot, Moors, and Briggs, she has settled some girls in the guest rooms. Three other rooms that were built as "planned doubles" by the architect have been transformed into "economy triples" by Dean Moser. She also may put put four or five girls in a private home on Raymond Street, near the college.

But Dean Moser still has hope: someone may yet withdraw and of course, a few withdrawals during the college year are inevitable.

At least, Dean Moser can boast, no one will be walking the streets of Cambridge some snowy night this winter looking for lodgings. Everyone will be housed by college opening, although it may take some improvising to do it.