CHUL Will Consider Yale's System Of Closer Freshmen Ties to Houses

A Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) task force will recommend a closer affiliation between freshmen and the Houses and a greater number of House seminars for credit at CHUL's next meeting on December 6.

The recommendations follow a two day fact-finding trip to Yale last weekend by four students and two Administration members of the Committee.

The task force will also propose that at least one Harvard House be associated with one Yale College (Yale's Colleges are the equivalent of Harvards Houses) for yearly visits to exchange views on undergraduate living conditions.

"We were not sufficiently impressed with Yale's system of immediately assigning freshman to colleges," Mitchell Wolfe '74, a member of the task force, said yesterday.

Wolfe said he would propose that each freshman be assigned to a House for the year but that all freshman be allowed to eat at other Houses and then choose which ones they would apply to at the end of freshman year.

A subcommittee of CHUL is presently considering several alternatives for freshman year including a separate freshman year where all male and female freshman live in the Yard (a new dorm would be built on the site of Hunt Hall) and a system of immediately assigning freshmen to Houses at the beginning of freshman year.

Academics

The task force also said that the Yale Colleges were used for academic purposes more than the Harvard Houses. Yale offers ten seminars for credit each semester taught by professors associated with the college, Wolfe said.

The members of the task force said they would report on their findings to the four subcommittees of CHUL and then decide what to recommend at the December meeting of the full committee.