In a message dated 15/12/2005 14:14:54 GMT Standard Time,
alan.welch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
In
my view and from what you say, it was different in my day ('70 ..
'73).
I was in Eliot and very quickly did I find that most of my
non-academic life
centred around that college, in particuler, the
friendships that I made.
In the 1970/1, we also had general
dining room sittings (2 off)/evening, with waitress
service, which
again, was a major part of the college life.
However even then,
there were the protagonists who argued how times would be
better if
things changed, so as to not tie one's self too rigidly the a
college.
I think they were overall misguided then as, for
me, social health was extremely
important, and I think my early
'happiness' at Kent was assisted by the collegiate system.
Alan
Welch, Eliot, 70 .. 73
I agree with Alan. I was in Darwin
1976-79 and my best friend Susie Wilson was opposite my room, we had
canteen meals, an option not available at my daughter's college now, High
Table, the bar (God, how could I put that there!), the JCR, TV rooms , oh
and the huge staircase where all the 2nd years used to check out the new
arrivals! My daughter has her own TV in her own room and a shared kitchen
- no thanks, give me Darwin as it was! (However my husband was from Keynes
and so was one of my other good friends, Anna Louise Beck, so it wasn't
totally parochial!)
