Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With only 40 per cent of its contributions accounted for, Lowell House had already topped its entire last year's total of $1300 by $100. Other House donations were: Eliot $1,128, Kirkland $1,090, Dunster $875, Leverett $730, Winthrop $704, Adams $522. The Yard contributed $1,556.
For years Harvard men clung fondly to the notion that Adams House food was superior food. The tense air about the early evening crowd in the dining hall line as the interhouse quota slowly filled up, the crushed look on the young faces of those who did not make it...
But now a charge has been made. Vice-President Reynolds has proclaimed that Adams is not blessed above the other Houses. The egalitarian trumpets have sounded.
It is all a gigantic hoax, in fact. For years, Adams boosters have assiduously circulated the fiction that Adams food was better. And the College, like an oyster with an irritant, has built up through the years a veritable pearl of a reputation for Adams House.
The eating man will be disturbed by Reynolds' words. He will no doubt sample his salad more pensively next time he eats in Adams. His eye will run quickly, nervously over the meat, the potatoes, the milk. He will search his soul.