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...Adams House students are spoiled with luxurious rooms and a beautiful House. But it's the masters who are really pampered. The Adams House masters' residence, Apthorp House, stands in the Adams courtyard as one of the most historic buildings in Cambridge. Built in 1761, it has been the home of a pre-Revolutionary anglophile, a merchant, imprisoned British troops and even Harvard students. Over the summer, the University decided it was time to renovate the residence for the first time in over 65 years. After stripping off the Chinese tea wallpaper, the university modernized the nine-bedroom, eight-bathroom...
...thanks to the sophomore tower--not to mention the idyllic multi-level courtyard, faux-Japanese garden in the dining hall and the large common space known as the fishbowl--the same people, after their three years in Currier, will tell you how much they love their House...
Once crisscrossed with paths like in Harvard Yard, the quad was converted to a genuine grass-covered field in the 1970s and what has resulted--a simple rectangular "courtyard"--is one of Harvard's greatest successes, according to many Cabot residents...
...speech was supposed to be a bold call for unity and understanding, not a jihad. McCain ended with a story of one of his Vietnamese captors, the "Good Samaritan" who loosened McCain's torture ropes. On Christmas, when McCain stood alone in the courtyard, the captor walked up to him and with his sandal drew a cross in the dirt. "Both prisoner and guard stood wordlessly there for a minute or two, venerating the cross, until the guard rubbed it out and walked away," said McCain, using the third person because Salter was worried that McCain would choke up otherwise...
...student reported being trapped in the Dunster House courtyard. Officers...