Education: Harvard, Too

Like maidless Yale (TIME, Oct. 15), Harvard has been having servant troubles too. This term, in two undergraduate and two graduate dormitories, college officials substituted student porters for the traditional "biddies." Last week the Harvard Alumni Bulletin gave the experiment only a slight chance of success. "Some . . . are reasonably satisfied with the work of their porters up to now. But there are those . . . who have an indefinable emotional repulsion toward the idea of their fellow students prowling through their beds and papers every morning."

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