Puritan Life Casual . . .

A House where just about anyone can feel at home, Winthrop has the most heterogeneous population of nay of the dwellings along the Charles. Here athletics, scientists, socialites, and promising novelists rub plastic trays in the subterranean dining halls, and if there is little united spirit, there is instead a rare atmosphere of live-and-let-live.

Aside form the diversity in the House's clientele, Housemaster Ronald M. Ferry '12, associate professor of Biochemistry, has a few other things to offer newcomers. Winthrop is traditionally the athletes' House, and before the war its men consistently ran away with the Straus Trophy. After a poor postwar start, the House is rapidly approaching its former athletic eminence.

Another benefit granted the Puritans is the House's private tutorial and its series of evening symposiums in natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In addition, Winthrop has been able to substitute its own program for the diminishing College tutorial work.

The third largest of the Houses, Winthrop will have between 35 and 40 singles when all the rooms are "deconverted." This, as well as the sturdy, sound absorbing walls, should attract lovers of quiet and solitude to the Puritan roost. A possible disadvantage is that there are few showers, most of the rooms having only bathtubs.

Library Strong in Science

Winthrop hugs the Charles closely, and a large proportion of the rooms have a sunny southern exposure. The library in Standish boasts an exceptional collection of books on science.

The dining hall has its good and bad points. Admittedly the least attractive of the House eating rooms, it is nevertheless not far removed from the central kitchen in Kirkland, and is justly famed for above average service.