The committee also suggested improvements in facilities of the Houses to improve the setting in which Faculty members meet students and in which students meet each other.

For example, the report recommends that the dining rooms be left open after 7 p.m. with a coffee machine in operation, so that people may remain in the dining halls after dishes have been cleared.

Dining halls would be more attractive to Associates if there were better sound-proofing, tablecloths at certain meals, and general improvements in physical facilities, the report adds.

The House Committees come in for praise in the report, which says they are "as close to the grass-roofs as any groups in the College."

The report asks the dean of the College to encourage the formation of a committee of House-Committee chairmen and suggests that the dean and the Committee on the Houses "pay close heed" to the views of that committee.

While the Committee on the Role of the Faculty approved the current system of House Committees, it proposed that other Houses follow Eliot House in instituting a House Council.

This body, including undergraduates, tutors. Fellows, and Associates, is meant to supplement the House Committee, most or all of whose members would also be on the Council. It would have the broad charge of recommending to the Master action which might improve the quality of life in the House, but would be only a consulting group.

The report also asks the dean of the Faculty to grant each House Master money-in addition to funds now available for House activities-to be used for activities organized by the House Committee and given the final approval of the Master.

This sum is to provide the House Committee with some risk capital so that it could experiment with new activities, "freeing it to some extent from the need of promoting activities, such as mixers, which are merely certain to make money."