Eliot Men Have Fun . . .

There is only one House whose members will allow themselves to be referred to as the Master's "nephews." There is only one House that has copped seven of the last eight major sports awards. There is only one Eliot House.

Of course, there are some who think this is fortunate. The recluse-scholar and the complete individualist do not find it a congenial place: tending to cliques, the majority of Mastodons enjoy a good time, combining bibulous enthusiasm with a paradoxical apathy.

House Conferences Revived

In spite of this impression, intellectual stimulation is not lacking inside the keystone-shaped walls of Eliot. Master John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, in his annual report to the House last week, emphasized the revival of the House conferences, which have been reinstituted since the war. Evolution, Tonybee's "Study of History," and Classicism and Romanticism were among this year's list.

Food--that peculiar consideration so large in the minds of Yardlings--is not the strong point of Eliot. On the whole, the eating is no better, and no worse, than in other Houses.

Rooms are perhaps the physical key to Eliot. They are almost without exception large, while a good percentage front on the airy, if often chilly, Charles. Eliot also boasts the best darkroom photographers will find anywhere in the University.

Tops in Athletics

The casual athlete will find scores of his ilk in the House. As of this week, only one major team has not finished first in intramural standings since last spring, with baseball, softball, crew, football, hockey, and two squash teams winding up on top of the standings.

With nearly one-third of the present House in the Class of 1950, the main trend of personalities will probably not change much next fall, and new members won't alter things. But it's a pleasant place to live.