Word: apthrop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stone slab on Plympton Street attests to the age and tradition of Apthrop House, the fine old example of colonial architecture which is the official residence of the Master of Adams. When the new Housemaster was chosen this summer his instructions were that in redecorating Apthrop he was to retain the traditional style of the official rooms but could decorate the private rooms as he chose. In consequence, visitors still find only somber propriety, unless perchance they should glimpse through an open door the Master's private dining room with its intricate gold patterns embossed on walls of vivid Chinese...
...does in everything else, he has wisely decided to keep his house in Belmont as a "home for tired academics." There he can retire with his wife, three children and the Sunday theatre section and escape at least for a day the ceaseless drumming on the door of Apthrop House...
...then became a college dormitory under the name of Apthorp House. "It was for many years the dormitory for students coming from St. George's School at Newport, a school which furnished most of Harvard's pre-war athletes." This was very unfortunate for the St. George Boys. Because Apthrop's large windows were perfect targets, the inmates of Randolph Hall used to break them with snowballs in the winter and rocks in the spring. By the time Adams House was formed, Apthorp was a wreck...