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...that Adams has banned first-years from its dining hall, many of the College’s most outspoken critics have mercilessly attacked the House and its residents. Blowing a matter of relatively small concern way out of proportion, even the Crimson Staff has insisted that Adams?? dining hall policies are an issue of basic fairness—that everyone who pays board should be able to eat close to the Yard. What the critics’ arguments ignore is that life isn’t always fair—and, sometimes, there’s a good...
...small price to pay for the privilege of luxurious accommodations in the most centrally located residential house on campus. Indeed, the “house community” miasma usually deployed to justify interhouse restrictions disregards that, alas, at Harvard all house communities are not created equal. Adams?? proximity to Harvard Yard makes it the most convenient venue on campus, while its superior kitchen facilities serve up delicious feasts and its posh lobby and sumptuous dining hall flatter the native savoir faire...
...hall between the hours of 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. this week were surely met with the same Medieval lack of hospitality as ever—but, for the second month in a row, no correspondingly barbaric music reminded onlookers of the House’s closed borders. Adams?? gong is still gone, and it will not be missed by the rest of the free world. But a far more discomforting silence has greeted the ears over intersession: the silence of complacency. It has been only a few weeks since Mather House declared unilateral...
...determined. But still more uncertainty surrounds Mather’s motivations. It is well known that Adams had something resembling a gong in its dining hall, but no one knows whether it was more than a round, bronze symbol. The gong had not been heard to ring since Adams?? losing war with Pforzheimer House, now more than a decade in the past. Listen closely to the chatter in Mather’s dingy halls of power: those who once talked of earth-shaking malletted tones now talk of “gong-related program activities...
...That’s rubbish. Maybe they have convinced their own people, but everyone else can see through it,” Christopher A. Lamie ’04, co-chair of Adams?? HoCo, said of Mather’s assertion that Kirkland stole the gong. “Whoever took the gong is being kind of sneaky...