Houses Rehearse Yule Plays, Worry Over TV and Washers

Television sets and washing machines, several Houses are discovering, have drawbacks as well as advantages.

Three Houses already have television sets, and two others will probably install them before long, a survey of House committees revealed last night. In addition, two Houses are considering buying washing machines.

TV Spoils Rooms

Winthrop and Adams have boasted TV since last year, while Lowell installed its set four weeks ago. But Winthrop and Adams have discovered that television spoils their common rooms for any other use.

Lowell has solved its common room problem by placing a movable set in the Coolidge Room opposite the Large Common Room. Of the two Houses now weighing the idea of television, Leverett is planning a special basement room, while Dunster--loss advanced in the project--asked its residents last month for suggestions as to where to place the set if bought.

Video Wins Poll

Dunster and Leverett, in recent television-versus-washing machine polls, both favored television. But Dunster, with a bulging House treasury, may also try out a washing machine. If it does so, it will take over Adams' role as the one-House experimenter. Adams was forced to abandon the idea last spring when its committee decided it would be too difficult to pay back a necessary $600 loan from the Student Council.