Off-Campus Living Probably Kaput When 'Cliffe Finishes Fourth House

Off campus housing at Radcliffe--indicated in 1927 to case overcrowding in the dormitories--will probably be abolished after the construction of Fourth House.

Radcliffe will continue using off campus housing after Fourth House is built campus if all students cannot be accommodated in the dormitories, according to Mrs. Helen II, Gilbert, acting president of Radcliffe.

The 325 students who now live off-campus or in the cooperatives could easily be housed in Fourth House, which will hold 250 of them, and the cooperative houses, which hold 75.

Mrs. Bunting's plans for Radcliffe, However, call for the conversion of economy doubles back to singles and possibly some of the full-sized doubles singles. In addition, she would like to have faculty residents in each of the listing dormitories as well as in Fourth House.

If these plans are carried out, the brick dormitories will not accommodate as many students as they now do, Mrs. Deane A. Lord, director of the Radcliffe News Office, said that any overflow from the brick dormitories would be put in the brick apartment building at 124 Walker St.

If 124 Walker St. is filled, wooden off-campus houses will be used. The number of such houses would depend on the number of faculty residents in the dorms and the number of doubles converted to singles.

Off-campus housing was first made available 28 years ago with the purchase of Edmands. At that time, Radcliffe was changing rapidly from a commuter to a residential college but did not have the money to build now dormitories.

It was at first assumed that each resident student would have her own room. Later, the growth of the college and its chronic shortage of funds forced the administration to put many students into doubles. More recently, rooms intended to be singles had to be converted to doubles.

Mrs. Bunting now hopes to realize the original goal of "one room for one girl" by building Fourth House.

If these plans are carried out, the brick dormitories will not accommodate as many students as they now do, Mrs. Deane A. Lord, director of the Radcliffe News Office, said that any overflow from the brick dormitories would be put in the brick apartment building at 124 Walker St.

If 124 Walker St. is filled, wooden off-campus houses will be used. The number of such houses would depend on the number of faculty residents in the dorms and the number of doubles converted to singles.

Off-campus housing was first made available 28 years ago with the purchase of Edmands. At that time, Radcliffe was changing rapidly from a commuter to a residential college but did not have the money to build now dormitories.

It was at first assumed that each resident student would have her own room. Later, the growth of the college and its chronic shortage of funds forced the administration to put many students into doubles. More recently, rooms intended to be singles had to be converted to doubles.

Mrs. Bunting now hopes to realize the original goal of "one room for one girl" by building Fourth House.