Word: adamsers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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I GAVE UP a date Saturday night to go to the Adams House mixer. Why on earth did I do that? Because somebody handed me a pink sheet of paper at the free concert in the Yard earlier that afternoon and I was touched.
IT WAS all so superficial, so guarded, so deliberately light, and a little bit phony. It was exactly the kind of unsatisfying human interaction that I thought people at Harvard were trying to get away from when they invited us to the "so aptly named" spring festival at Adams house...
Maybe we weren't supposed to go to the mixer. But someone had announced it at the concert. And the pink sheet said we were invited to music in the afternoon and to spend the night(s) at Adams House. There we were promised "the joyful transformation of our daily...
Each one remained an anonymous individual, safe and insular. Was this a way out of alienation and into joy as the pink sheet promised? On the contrary, it was self-defense and nothing more. There was no life at the Adams House Blizzard Mixer. There was only survival.
The following seniors have been awarded Danforth Graduate Fellowships: Timothy D. Gould of Adams House and Leonia, N.J.; Arthur J. Jacobson of Lowell House and New York; Alexander Keyssar of Leverett House and Maplewood, N.J.; and Peter D. Pesic of Winthrop House and Long Beach, Calif.