Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the five week "punching season" of cocktail parties and dinners, the "Pork," the oldest and most exclusive of Harvard's final clubs, elected William Bette Jr. '86, an Adams House sophomore. "You can't separate being Black from being the first [Black] person in the Porcellien Club," Batts remarked...
The year also saw the deaths of several Harvard undergraduates. In March. John P. Neumann '86, an Adams House sophomore, died after falling from the Criminal Courts Building in downtown Manhattan.
Bryan B. Jaffee '86. an Adams House resident, died of a heart attack suffered in front of Claverly Hall. A native of the Los Angeles area. Jaffee concentrated in Visual and Environmental Studies and was a member of the varsity water polo team.
Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn's Historical Studies B-31. "The Revolutionary Transformation of America," also received high ratings. How does a historian teach analysis? Bailyn does it by raising a few major problems in sequence: "Why was the British Empire vulnerable at the time just proceeding the American Revolution...
Somewhere along the line, they got to be friends, and sometime after that--one a little before the other--they found they were better directors than actors. By then they were rooming together in Adams House and spending incessant hours talking about theater. And they had laid the groundwork for...