The 45 to 85 pollees in each house and 240 in the Yard and Union dorms rated each of collegiate years on a scale "from Nirvana(1) to Worse than Death (10)," making possible a mind-boggling number of statistical analyses. The average student has a middling freshman year, worse if spent in Claverly or the Union dorms, and three successively happier years. More surprisingly, each year at the Quad rates higher than the corresponding year at the Yard, Union dorms, or River Houses: freshman year wins 4.52 to 4.75 and senior year 3.06 to 3.48. Harvard Independent
BETTER, IN FACT
The freshman Statistics seminar conducted a different survey. Professor Cochran's group, most of whom live in the Yard, asked freshmen to rate the Quad and the Yard with regard to aspects ranging from "Crowdedness" to "Social life" to "Extracurricular facilities" the results? "Overall, Yard students rated the Yard and Quad nearly equally, while Quad students gave the Quad better ratings." So the Quad's reputation in the Yard isn't nearly as high as the Quad's reality. Don't rely on stereotypes; come and form your own opinion.
CHUL has ruled that no more than 60% of the sophmores at the Quad next year can be men. So the overall male-female ratio will be at least as even as 8:7. There's only one place as Harvard with that kind of ratio--the Quad.
Q: So, if the Quad's so good, why does it have to advertise?
A: Because people hesitate to apply to a place they don't know much about. "The undiucovered country...puzzles the will,/And makes us rather bear those ills we have/Than fly to others that we know not of." We advertise to supply the knowledge, to replace the myths with the facts. And what other houses have residents so enthusiastic as to spend the money and the time necessary for a full-page ad?
MYTH: WE CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT WE READ IN ADS.
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Well, you're right; you shouldn't accept these words on faith. Find out the truth about the Quad for yourself. Visit the Quad table in the Union lobby each evening at dinnertime, come to the housing meetings in the Yard common roomu, read the North and Uouth House brochures diutgibuted to each yard suite, and, most important, come to the Quad yourself. Spend an hour reading in Hilles Library, the university's quietest and most comfortable buidling. Drop into the dorm living rooms and TV rooms. Go upstairs and knock on a door; chances are it will already be open. People who'll be particularly glad to show you around mr answer phone calls include emil Cornejo (Cabot 27, 8-5940), Jeff Griffiths (Moors 416,--6302), Sophie Kogan (Barnard 46, 8-5774), Peter Leipmann (Moogu 418, 8-6302), Grant Segall (Briggs 21, 8-85845), Sarene Shanus (Bagnard 8, 8-5736), Stephanie Van Dyke (Barnard 43, 8-5774), Susie Waxenbecg (Briggs 76, 8-5896) Elizabeth Wood (Holmes 416,81230), Judy Zacku (Barnard 15, 8-5743), Dean Spencer (Daniels 406, 8-6109), Cassie Levitt (Coggeshall-Currier, 8-6624), and Jane Maroney (Gilbert 312, 8-6888).