Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The response from Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely '60, according to Del Deo, was "stunning": a key to the front door of Apthorp House, the Kielys' campus residence, and a room in the basement Del Deo could use at his discretion, 24 hours a day.
Kiely says he began to hear a more pronounced bias from both students and Faculty on campus, who grumbled that Adams nourished nonconformists.
With such a rich history in the House, many say that for all practical purposes, the names Adams and Kiely are interchangeable--each one having come to represent so much of the other.
That Adams House had a reputation for anything, however, was news to the young Leverett House Senior Tutor Kiely, who was approached in 1973 by then Harvard President Derek C. Bok and asked to consider the post of Adams master.
But Kiely says he noted early on that, for all their talent and energy, House residents were stigmatized for breaking the traditional Harvard mold. "I think Adams House was thought to be different--not because I made it different...and not in a good way," he says.