page_title: Harvey Mudd College
section_title: Harvey Mudd College dormitories
hierarchical_section_title: Harvey Mudd College / Harvey Mudd College dormitories
caption_attribution_description: English: View of Hixon Courtyard and Galileo Hall at Harvey Mudd College.
context_page_description: Harvey Mudd College is a private residential undergraduate science and engineering college in Claremont, California. It is one of the institutions of the contiguous Claremont Colleges which share adjoining campus grounds. Harvey Mudd College shares university resources such as libraries, dining halls, health services and campus security with the other Claremont Colleges, although each college is independently managed, with their own faculty, board of trustees, endowment, and admissions procedures. Students at Harvey Mudd College may take classes at the other four undergraduate Claremont colleges. The Bachelor of Science diploma received at graduation is issued by Harvey Mudd College.
  The college is named after Harvey Seeley Mudd, one of the initial investors in the Cyprus Mines Corporation. Although involved in planning of the new institution, Mudd died before it opened. The college was funded by Mudd's friends and family, and named in his honor.
context_section_description: The official names for the dormitories of Harvey Mudd College are (listed in order of construction):
  Mildred E. Mudd Hall ("East")
  West Hall ("West")
  North Hall ("North")
  Marks Residence Hall ("South")
  J. L. Atwood Residence Hall (Atwood)
  Case Residence Hall (Case)
  Ronald and Maxine Linde Residence Hall (Linde)
  Frederick and Susan Sontag Residence Hall (Sontag)
  Wayne and Julie Drinkward Residence Hall (Drinkward)
  Until the addition of the Linde and Sontag dorms, Atwood and Case dorms were occasionally referred to as New Dorm and New Dorm II; Mildred E. Mudd Hall and Marks Hall are almost invariably referred to as East dorm and South dorm.
  During the construction of Case Dorm some students decided as a prank to move all of the survey stakes exactly six inches in one direction.
  South Dorm is in the northwest corner of the quad. "East" was the first dorm, but it wasn't until "West" was built west of it that it was actually referred to as "East". Then "North" was built, directly north of "East". When the fourth dorm (Marks) was built, there was one corner of the quad available (the northwest) and one directional name, "South", remaining. To this day "South" dorm is the northernmost HMC dorm.
  The fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth dorms built are Atwood, Case, Linde, Sontag, and Drinkward, respectively. They were initially referred to as "the colonies" by some students, a reference to the fact that they were newer and at the farthest end of the campus; these dorms are now more commonly referred to as "the outer dorms." The college had initially purchased an apartment building adjacent to the newer dorms to house additional students, but it was demolished to make room for Sontag.
  Since any HMC student, regardless of class year, can live in any of the dormitories, several of the dorms have accumulated long-standing traditions and so-called 'personalities'.
caption: Galileo Hall and Hixon Courtyard
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