Holmes Hall, Quincy House Will Affiliate

In order to "make more effective use of talent and facilities," Quincy House and Holmes Hall will experiment "with an informal affiliation" beginning this Fall. But, unlike the recently announced association for joint tutorials between Winthrop House and Comstock Hall, Quincy and Holmes are affiliating to "provide a natural and easily available source of talent for student activities."

Holmes is the Music Center of Radcliffe--with its own concert series, music library, sightreading and chamber-music groups--and Quincy will have many student musicians. Thus, according to John M. Bullitt '43, Master of Quincy, affiliation "will provide both dormitories with better opportunities for filling out groups of musicians and singers."

Though Bullitt emphasized the "tentative and exploratory nature of the relationship," the Holmes girls will also use Quincy's art studio, photography room and stage.

Joint Social Occasions Planned

There will be no formal social affiliation, and, as Bullitt put it, "we are not trying to organize a man's dating life." However, according to Mrs. Daisy Newman, Head Resident of Holmes, there may be "a number of joint social occasions, including record dances."

In addition, concentrators' dinners and informal tutor-student discussions will round out the program. Bullitt points out that the affiliation "is not intended to exclude other members of the Harvard-Radcliffe community from participation."

The Quincy-Holmes plan drew criticism from one Master last night. "Our Houses are already too big, and affiliation will cause just that many more problems for the staffs," said Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House. "But," he added, "who am I to criticize the great new elevated structure?"