Leverett Claims Good Staff, Beer Parties, and Vacancies

Leverett House is the place where, when you want to go there, they usually take you in.

This is because most people don't want to go there. For the past three years, Leverett has won the booby-prize on freshmen House applications and has often flunked the supply-and-demand test.

This has been a constant source of astonishmen to Bunnie Hutchers. They never understood what strange enchantment drew people to Eliot and Lowell, and they never could detect the Leverett halitosis that seemed to drive freshmen away in flocks.

And the funny thing is, there isn't any.

Actually, the Hutch has as much the offer as any other House. It throws beer parties, runs tea dances, sponsors monthly concentration dinners, and once invited the whole D'Oyly Carte Opera Company over to amuse the inmates.

It has the first House music room and record collection, a library strong in American Literature and well-stocked in other fields, a ping-pong room, squash courts and the only House tennis court in the world.

Well Staffed

It has a staff that includes professors John M. Gaus, Howard Mumford Jones, Samuel E. Morrison, Benjamin F. Wright, Bart J. Bok, Lynn H. Loomis, and john D. Wild, and a genial Housemaster named Leigh Hoadley.

In sports, it held the Straus trophy throughout the war. In rooms, it has everything from singles to septuples. In food it dishes out the same stuff as five other Louses, but it dulls the shock but serving it in a trapezoidal dining hall with loads of room for everybody.

The Leverett Committee is a hard-working bunch that believes in beer parties instead of testimonal dinners. Its dances are reputed to be the best House dances in the College. And this spring it is even installing a bell near the front door, for people who like to listen to bells.

But the most important thing in any House is the people. That's a strong point for Leverett. If you apply there, you can bring all your friends with you, and there'll be room for everyone. Putting your money on a popular House may mean one year as roommate to an opiloptic. Slavic major form Abyssinia.

Except for the people in them, those red-brick apartments along the Charles aren't much different. Adams House has a pool, and Eliot House has a basement snack-bar, but a Leverett House man is a man who wouldn't sell his soul for an afternoon plunge or a hot-dog with relish.