Pilbeam also said the committee was not prepared to offer any recommendations on the possibility of assigning freshmen to upperclass Houses, which would give them access to the Houses’ advising resources.
But Sosland Family Professor Mary M. Gaylord doubted the feasibility of such a plan. “It would place a burden on the House system that, without a radical reorganization, would not be possible to absorb,” she said.
Yesterday’s meeting was the second in a series of three “conversations with faculty” about the preliminary recommendations of the Curricular Review, which were issued last spring.
The next meeting, which will cover science and technology, international experience and a possible January term, will take place on Feb. 1.
—Staff writer Anton S. Troianovski can be reached at atroian@fas.harvard.edu.