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!)
