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...revised plans call for a complex of four separate buildings built around a central courtyard that is "open to the sky and visible from both Brattle Square and the J.F.K. Park." There will be two hotel buildings connected by a transparent aboveground tunnel, and greatly expanded office building and condominiums, with shops around the courtyard and underneath the hotel and offices...
Silence smothers Vanderbilt Hall like a wet blanket. You can stand in the courtyard of the Medical School's only dormitory on a Saturday night, and the loudest sound you hear is your own breathing. Wait a minute! What's going on here? Isn't this a Saturday night? Isn't this a dormitory? And don't 250 students live here? So where is everybody? Where is the party, the beer, the music? At least there should be some music! Over in the common room some guy is playing the piano and upstairs some other guy is doing a Gregorian...
...parties and dances, but, according to Hamilton, they are usually pretty bad. First year student John Hammond, who heads back to Williams when he can afford the time off from studying, says, "On weekends this place is dead, I mean, you can just about see tumbleweeds blowing across the courtyard. The social life here is terrible compared to college, but mostly we're here to study, not party," Hammond says. Another first-year student, who graduated from Harvard and asked not to be identified, says, "North House, on its deepest, quietest weekday has more going on than Vanderbilt does...
Answering Althusser's cry for help, "Normale Sup's" school physician discovered Hélène Althusser, 70, dead on their bedroom floor across the courtyard. An autopsy next day disclosed that she had indeed been murdered: her larynx was fractured and her thyroid gland damaged, common indications of strangulation. But before police could question Althusser, he was hustled off to a psychiatric hospital. During the past few years, he has suffered from increasingly serious bouts of depression, to the point that he was unable to teach this fall...
They drank a lot of beer in the Quincy House courtyard last night...