Word: basement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's upperclass houses took on at least some water last week, as did some first-year dorms. Winthrop House, perhaps the worst hit, suffered an entirely waterlogged dining hall and a soggy mailroom. Other examples of flooding include the basement of Eliot House and the entire Dewolfe street side of New Quincy, where, according to acting Superintendent Jay Coveney, the wind-driven rain simply penetrated the wall of the building...
...this past weekend indicates that Harvard needs to renovate the superstructures of many of its buildings to prevent such occurrences in the future. Additionally, while many of the buildings that leaked this past weekend are normally waterproof, others have a long and unresolved history of leakage. For instance, the basement of Thayer hall, which was soaked by this last storm, also leaked during the summer, damaging some computers belonging to the Harvard Model Congress...
...then students stopped showing up, so administrators scaled back the other features. And when the administrators scaled back services, students continued to stay away. Now caught in a vicious cycle, students and administrators fear that the $25 million commons will become simply an over-priced and underutilized basement...
...think there's a smell that's coming from the basement," said Elisabeth L. Ritter '97, a Winthrop resident. "It was pretty nasty...
Lamont Professor of Divinity Paul D. Hanson, the master of Winthrop House, said everythings is back to normal. "In the basement, we had considerable damage [during] a previous storm about a month ago," Hanson said. "We took the precaution then of putting everything important above floor level...