Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After prevailing in two out of the three events in yesterday's final battle, they won their agreed-upon prize: Adams stickers for the ID cards of Pforzheimer House residents and special dispensation to eat in Adams House for the rest of the year.
Tensions between the two Houses arose early in the semester, when Adams began using stickers on resident ID cards to help enforce its long-standing ban on interhouse dining during peak dining hours.
In retaliation, Pforzheimer residents brought a proposal to their House Committee to ban Adams residents from their dining hall, which the students dubbed a symbolic gesture.
Although the proposal did not pass, some Adams residents decided to declare war.
And though defeated in the end, Adams still had reason to cheer. The weeklong skirmish it inspired between the two Houses awoke an outpouring of House spirit unlike anything seen on Harvard's campus since randomization began.