House Committee
This is how we turned out for the 1961 Technique, MIT’s centennial yearbook. This was my second year on the House Committee, ex officio, this time, by virtue of my election as DormCon Rep. The previous year, as a sophomore, I’d been Hall Chairman of the infamous Fifth Floor, East Parallel.
Please don’t be fooled by our placid, uniformed appearance: I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that more than one of those ties was borrowed, and I don’t believe I see a “freshman tie” in the group. Among the fourteen of us, we usually clung to at least fifteen opinions on most topics. Except that we pretty much all agreed that East Campus should remain a haven from the frantic sociality of most other living groups. That’s why we chose to live there, after all.

On the other hand, I wouldn’t want you to come away thinking that we were savages, with no cultural refinement at all. Contrary to prevailing Harvardian calumnies, indeed, there’s plenty of culture at MIT, including a great deal of the conventional sort. This next story, however, stands out in my memory, even in some pretty stellar cultural company.
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