Household Finance

Enough has been said of the comparative splendor of Quincy-with its spacious suites, privacy, elevators, refrigerators in every room, and the modern Lamont-like library-to raise a serious problem concerning the relative deficiency in the other seven Houses.

Leverett, of course, has long faced an unfortunate lack of popularity partially due to architectural features: it lacks a splendid tower and its dining room is a huge reverberating cavern. By now, Leverett's problem has received due recognition from the Administration, which has provided grants to remodel the dining hall, besides extending the House with the new Leverett "Towers." It seems only just for the Administration to pay similar attention to the perhaps less pressing, but nevertheless important lacunae in the physical plants of other Houses.

Some need small, private dining rooms; most lack adequate lighting in their libraries. The Masters probably have special improvements in mind for which their Ford money in insufficient.

More than token measures must be taken to decrease the gap which exists between Quincy as planned and the Houses as they are. Otherwise the present Houses will face a permanent disadvantage in recruiting freshmen, and students living in them in the future will be victims of a gross and unnecessary inequality. More than a little money should be forthcoming in the very near future to finance physical improvements in all the existing Houses.